Wagons brimming with logs accumulate in the Siberian railway station of Dalnerechensk, more than 8,000km (4,971 miles) east of Moscow. They are waiting to cross the nearby Chinese border.
Once in China, they will be processed and used for construction or turned into garden furniture and other products to be sold in European and US shops.
More than a third of all Russian logs are smuggled by mafias, a practice that doubled between 2005 and 2007, according to official figures... [Continue]
Philippines - The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) seized six heavy-duty Stihl chain saws and 6,872 board feet of lumber and flitches during a string of anti-illegal logging operations in Infanta, Quezon, and Tanay, Rizal, early this month.
DENR Secretary Lito Atienza, who presented the seized chainsaws to the media at the DENR grounds in Quezon City, said the confiscation of the chainsaws bolstered their suspicion that illegal logging is on the rise with the onset of the summer season in the two provinces... [Continue]
Protest der Kenyah gegen Holzeinschlag der Samling Timber Company in der Region Baram, Malaysia
Mehr als hundert Mitglieder indigener Kenyah-Stämme aus verschiedenen Langhäusern (Gemeinden), die im Herzen des Kedaya Telang Usan Gebietes in der Region Baram des Staates Sarawak in Malaysia leben, versammelten sich am oberen Moh (Fluß), um gewaltfrei gegen den Holzeinschlag der Samling Timber Company zu protestieren... [Continue]
Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia - A month-long blockade of logging roads by indigenous people in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia set to protest illegal logging on their communal lands is about to be broken up by police.
More than 100 indigenous Kenyah people gathered at the blockade site on the upper Moh River on the island of Borneo claim that the blockade is their only way of calling on representatives of the Samling Timber Company and government authorities to have a consultation and meet with them to listen to their problems and demands... [Continue]
The National forestry Authority has warned the people against smuggling Timber to Foreign Countries neighboring Uganda especailly Southern Sudan to ensure sustainable management of forests and ensure proper collection of revenues.
Uganda is facing increased Global warming due to rapid depletion of forests for timber, fuel and farming among others
While in speaking during a joint Performance Review meeting for various Forest Officers at Kibaale Hotel, Kibaale district the Director of Natural Forests from the National Forestry Authority Hudson Andrua said that Timber smuggling is illegal and the culprits will be arrested... [Continue]
The Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Elvis Ngolle Ngolle has dismissed as false reports by a French Non Governmental Organisation, Les Amis de la Terre , that Cameroon's forest is logged with little or no respect of the law. He was talking within the framework of government communication. The forestry and wildlife boss hinged his presentation on four main axes: report of the French NGO, fight against illegal logging, issuing of licences, and complexity of forest operation... [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]
