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Chinese demand fuels illegal logging: report

Laborers moving logs of wood at a timber market in the suburbs of Hefei, central China's Anhui province. File photo via AFP.

The preservation of the world’s forests “is in China’s hands”, a top environmental campaign group said Thursday, accusing the biggest wood importer and consumer of fuelling the illegal timber trade. “China’s role as the world’s biggest timber trader means that further progress against illegal logging depends on the nation taking…

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Organized crime behind the $100 billion illegal logging industry decimating worldwide forests

An Indonesian customs officer inspects illegal logs placed inside containers at Jakarta's Tanjung Priok port in 2011.

Organised crime is now a big player in illegal logging, which accounts for up to 30 percent of all wood traded globally, the UN and Interpol warned on Thursday. In the mid-2000s, some tropical countries reported a fall in illicit forest clearance, but this may well have been a mirage,…

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Cambodian journalist found murdered in his car

Cambodian trucks loaded with 'unprocessed' timber via AFP

A Cambodian journalist who reported on rampant illegal logging in the country has been found murdered in the boot of his car, police said. Hang Serei Oudom, a reporter at local-language Vorakchun Khmer Daily, was discovered on Tuesday, said senior police officer Song Bunthanorm. The vehicle was abandoned in a…

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Cambodian environmental activists fight rampant logging

Piles of timber in a Cambodian village via AFP

Frustrated by government inaction, Cambodian citizen patrollers are risking their lives to take on the country’s illegal loggers in a bid to save their shrinking forests. The shooting of a prominent environmentalist by a military policeman last month after he refused to hand over logging photos rocked the kingdom and…

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