http://beroesourcing.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/us-illegal-wood-trade-ban/ Beroe Intelligence - Beroe Sourcing - Beroe Green ( Procurement intelligence leveraged ) Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:37:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://beroesourcing.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/us-illegal-wood-trade-ban/#comment-4 Forest Policy Research » Blog Archive » 358 Asia-Pacific-Australia Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:14:49 +0000 http://beroesourcing.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-4 [...] 1) “Most logs imported into China are effectively stolen, with no payment of government royalties to exporting nations or environmental control over harvest operations. At least 80% of Chinese timber imports from Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Indonesia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands are illegal, according to recent estimates, with somewhat lower values (50 to 60%) for Malaysia and Russia,” writes Laurance. “Unprocessed logs are easy to acquire and smuggle, and corruption in the log trade is far more prevalent than that for processed forest products. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), China’s demand for imported industrial wood — timber, paper and pulp — will grow by at least 33 percent within the next five years, from the current 94 million cubic meters to 125 million cubic meters. http://beroesourcing.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/us-illegal-wood-trade-ban/ [...] [...] 1) “Most logs imported into China are effectively stolen, with no payment of government royalties to exporting nations or environmental control over harvest operations. At least 80% of Chinese timber imports from Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Indonesia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands are illegal, according to recent estimates, with somewhat lower values (50 to 60%) for Malaysia and Russia,” writes Laurance. “Unprocessed logs are easy to acquire and smuggle, and corruption in the log trade is far more prevalent than that for processed forest products. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), China’s demand for imported industrial wood — timber, paper and pulp — will grow by at least 33 percent within the next five years, from the current 94 million cubic meters to 125 million cubic meters. http://beroesourcing.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/us-illegal-wood-trade-ban/ [...]

]]> http://beroesourcing.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/us-illegal-wood-trade-ban/#comment-2 Laporan Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:55:56 +0000 http://beroesourcing.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-2 Illegal logging in Indonesia must be priority Illegal logging in Indonesia must be priority

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