1. In Liberia, President Charles Taylor is said to be using illegal timber revenue to finance paramilitary squads and a brutal guerrilla movement in neighboring Sierra Leone. 2. The project is intended to help Brazil combat drug trafficking and illegal timber cutting in the Amazon basin. 3. The project is intended to help the Brazilian government combat drug trafficking and illegal timber cutting throughout the Amazon basin. 4. A former Vietnamese army officer was killed by forest inspectors in Khanh Hoa province while transporting illegal timber, a local government official said Monday. 5. Britain and Indonesia signed an agreement Thursday to take joint action to combat the trade in illegal timber products between the two countries. 6. Critics say graft within security forces, and among forestry and port officials, allows for huge amounts of illegal timber to be sold and shipped throughout Asia. 7. Critics say graft within the security forces, and forestry and port officials allows for huge amounts of illegal timber to be sold and shipped throughout Asia. 8. He added that there are some loopholes in the current FIO system which officials could use to benefit from the illegal timber trade. 9. Hun Sen also paid special attention to the illegal timber trade that deprives the cash-strapped Cambodian treasury of millions of dollars in export duties each year. 10. It also called on industrialized nations to halt the trade in illegal timber and make a commitment to buy timber only from legal sources originating in sustainably managed forests. |