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America’s Free Trade for Illegal Timber

Posted 12 February 2010 infotelapakPosted in Laporan

How US Trade Pacts Speed the Destruction of the World’s Forests As this report is published, the US is cementing economic partnerships which could further speed the destruction of Southeast Asian and Latin American forests. The list of looming US Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) reads like a who’s who of states involved in the global

Behind the Veneer

Posted 12 February 2010 infotelapakPosted in Laporan

How Indonesia’s Last Rainforests are being Felled for Flooring Demand-driven illegal logging in Indonesia is destroying one of the world’s most important remaining tracts of undisturbed tropical forest. Despite unprecedented enforcement operations by the Indonesian government, every day thousands of hectares of Indonesia’s forests are cut illegally to supply the thousands of factories across Asia.