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Irish government must adopt a responsible timber procurement policy-urgently
May 22, 2008. As illegal-logging anf deforestation increases in the Amazon-Just Forests calls on the new Taoiseach, Mr. Brian Cowen to develop a government procurement policy on timber...Click for More
EU Moves to Combat Illegal-Logging -- The Commission will propose new measures to tackle illegal logging in May amid fears that the current EU legislation is not effective enough, Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas announced last week.-
March 27, 2008. This report also alleges that illegally logged timber was used in a number of EU-funded construction projects. Questioning the effectiveness of EU legislation, Anne van Schaik of Friends of the Earth Netherlands claimed the Commission was "not even able to keep illegal and destructively logged timber out of its own construction projects". ;.. Click for More
TAILANDIA, Brazil -- The Brazilian government has launched an aggressive crackdown on logging in the Amazon, an operation that pits environmental regulators against people who say they depend on those protected resources to survive.-
By Monte Reel Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, March 21, 2008; Page A01... Click for More
Globalization and Great Apes: Illegal logging destroying last strongholds of Orangutans in National Parks-
24th Session of UNEP’s Governing Council/ Global Ministerial Environment Forum ... Click for More
Is the global decline in timber species a threat to music?-
Irish Times article - 8th March 2008.. Click for More
Official watchdog condems World Bank on logging in the Congo
The report finds that two projects funded by the Bank since 2002 would have promoted massive industrial exploitation of Congo’s rainforests for timber production... Click for More
Ireland scores poorly in illegal-logging league
The failure of Ireland to do anything proactively on illegal logging and a lack of awareness lands them at the bottom of the league ... Click for More »
Irish children and biodiversity
A huge percentage of Irish children can identify fewer than 10 species of Irish animals and plants but can recognise thousands of commercial logos, a conference heard recently...
Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
The Amazon and DRC possess the two largest remaining tropical forest blocks in the world, and Global Witness believes the world cannot afford to put these global assets at risk by subjecting them to tried and tested theories that do not work. Despite many initiatives surrounding forest law enforcement, timber certification, chain of custody tracking and attempts to ban the trade in illegal timber, deforestation increases every year, with implications that include releasing 18% of total global CO2 emissions - more than the entire global transport sector
Greenpeace condemns illegal logging in Congo-Kinshas - 27/02/2007
(Press Release) Environment watchdog, Greenpeace, Monday in Paris, called for an end to "illegal logging" in DR Congo's forests, describing local wood processing company, ITB, as a major culprit.
Open Letter to Offaly County Council and Tullamore Town Council - 16/04/2007
At a time when we are all being asked by national and local government to ‘reduce’, ‘reuse’ and ‘recycle’ in order to minimise our ‘carbon footprint’ on the earth and conserve finite resources, Tullamore Town Council has failed to show good example and lead the way in relation to national and global environmental issues. The Council’s use of over 260 sheets of Brazilian plywood in the new swimming pool site hoarding at Cloncollig is morally reprehensible. The plywood is made from hardwood from the Amazon rainforest and its use raises legal, ethical, environmental, social, biodiversity and economic issues that will have far-reaching and potentially catastrophic consequences.
DFID announce grants supporting forest governance and trade - 26/02/2007
London, UK - DFID's Forest Governance and Trade Programme is a five-year, £24 million programme that aims to tackle the problems of illegal logging in developing countries and the associated international trade in illegally logged timber.
MALAYSIA: Police clear Penan blockade
Members of a nomadic tribe who had been preventing loggers from bulldozing their rainforest home for two years have had their blockade dismantled by Malaysian police.
Irish Woodworkers for Africa Ltd, is a 'company limited by guarantee' trading as Just Forests.
Irish Charity No: CHY 10686
