Vietnamese furniture exporters, who are struggling to source legally logged timber, learnt about some common international laws on the issue at a seminar yesterday.
The half-day event, jointly organised by the HCM City Handicrafts and Wood Industry Association (Hawa) and Swiss-based certifier SGS group, addressed furniture exporters' concerns about the legality and traceability of timber, which have increasingly been demanded by European and American clients... [Continue]
Lax management of an old growth forest in the central highlands province of Lam Dong has been blamed for widespread logging and land exploitation.
Deforestation in the environmentally valuable Yahoa forest over the past few years has been a tough problem to solve for local forest owners and rangers.
The authorities are fighting a losing battle for the forest which is in Don Duong District in Lam Dong Province and borders with Ninh Son District of Ninh Thuan Province... [Continue]
Vietnam - A group of illegal loggers assaulted two forest officials in central Quang Ngai Provinces Son Ha District as they were recording the seizure of a load of wood from the loggers Tuesday.
Dinh Van Chi, deputy chairman of Son Giang Commune, and Dinh Van Anh, an official from the Thach Nham Forest Board, were the victims of the attack... [Continue]
31/08/2007
Ha Noi, Vietnam The illegal logging of dalbergia tonkinesis trees in Ha Noi recently has prompted the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to strengthen the management of the exploitation and consumption of this kind of wood.
By order of the Ministry of Agriculture, the exploitation of dalbergia tonkinesis wood, also known as sua wood in Vietnamese, must be stopped temporarily nation-wide until the ministry issues new instructions concerning both wild and cultivated sua trees... [Continue]
