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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.

Stemming the Tide

Posted 12 February 2010 infotelapakPosted in Laporan

Halting the Trade in Stolen Timber in Asia Stolen timber worth almost two and a half billion dollars is traded between the countries of East and South-East Asia each year. China, which consumes timber from some of the countries most badly affected by illegal logging, is reckoned to be the largest consumer of illegal timber