21.   Attention has focused on Chavalit and members of his political party because of their long association with logging companies.

22.   Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating also had said that logging companies from the three countries were paying too little for valuable and limited forest products.

23.   Commercial hunters abetted by wars and logging companies are a grave threat to chimpanzees across central Africa, renowned chimp conservationist Jane Goodall said Tuesday.

24.   Corrupt government officials and soldiers in collusion with logging companies are responsible for numerous human rights abuses in the rural Philippines, a human rights group said Monday.

25.   Earlier officials said many of the fires appeared to have been deliberately lit by farmers, plantation owners and logging companies to clear land cheaply.

26.   Emmerson declined to be interviewed, but company foresters say a century of selective cutting by logging companies has emptied the forests of good timber.

27.   Earlier, officials said many of the fires appeared to have been deliberately lit by farmers, plantation owners and logging companies to clear land cheaply.

28.   Even then, the Ministry could only act against logging companies.

29.   He says that most of these people are now jobless after they have been laid-off by logging companies.

30.   He said that his department is verifying recent reports by Global Witness about alleged violations of the government moratorium by logging companies.