Blog: Forests

Forest Crime: Korindo and the trade in illegal plywood from the last rainforests of Indonesia

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: March 2004

Summary
Illegal logging continues to play a huge part in the destruction of the world's ancient forests. Its impacts are devastating: contributing to loss of biodiversity; linked to human rights abuses and organised crime; impacting on the sustainable development of forest producing countries; and undermining the trade in timber from legal and sustainable sources. The World Bank estimates that some US $10-15 billion per annum is lost to Governments each year because of the illegal trade in timber.

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Ancient forest destruction video

Posted by jamie - 28 February 2004 at 9:00am - Comments

Can you imagine what it would be like to have your home torn down around you and destroyed? It's a horrible thought, but that's exactly what is happening in forests around the world. With an area of forest the size of a football pitch being destroyed every two seconds, endangered species such as gorillas, orang utans and chimpanzees are at risk of extinction within our lifetimes.

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Media Briefing: UK timber traders and illegal logging

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: July 2003

Summary
How UK timber traders such as Finnforest, Montague L Meyer continue to fuel the destruction of Indonesia's last rainforests

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Partners in Crime

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

A Greenpeace investigation of the links between the UK and Indonesia's timber barons

Publication date: June 2003

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Partners in Crime: summary

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

A Greenpeace investigation of the links between the UK and Indonesia's timber barons

Publication date: June 2003

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PVC-u or timber windows- Which is best?

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Your choice of window frames could seriously affect the health of our planet.

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Vicwood-Thanry destroying Cameroon's ancient forests

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: April 2002

Summary
The lowland rainforest of Cameroon forms part of Africa's stunning Forest of the Great Apes. One of the world's last remaining strongholdsof species such as lowland gorillas, chimpanzees and forest elephants, this forest supports countless species of plants and animals and is home to around 12 million forest-dependent people. But today their future is under threat, as illegal and destructive logging companies encroach deeper and deeper into this fragile forest.

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Forest crime files: UK Government fuelling the destruction of Africa

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: April 2002

Summary
The Cabinet Office refurbishment project is using more than £400,000 worth of sapele from Central and West Africa for doors and windows. Greenpeace has uncovered a chain of supply that ultimately links the UK Cabinet Office to a number of the most notorious international logging companies operating in Africa's last ancient forests all with records of unsustainable, destructive and illegal logging.

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