Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
Javier Gomez sucks the last morsels of meat from the leg bone of an agouti, a large Amazonian rodent, his creased face belying his 44 years. ‘We’re just happy to have the work,” he shrugs wearily. “Here the only work is timber, that’s it. It’s heavy work but we’re used …
Covert GPS surveillance of timber trucks by Amazon campaigners has revealed how loggers are defeating attempts to halt deforestation in the world’s greatest rainforest. Raids by law enforcement officers are expected early on Wednesday morning, acting on the evidence handed to them by Greenpeace Brazil. The activists went undercover in …
A new research project led by the University of Melbourne aims to make Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) forestry industry financially sustainable and bring social and environmental benefits to the developing nation. The project – Enhancing value added wood processing in Papua New Guinea – will investigate how improvements to the …
Four Peruvian tribal leaders have been killed on their way to a meeting to discuss ways to stop illegal logging. The men from the Ashaninka community were attempting to travel to Brazil when they were murdered, Campaigners say the men had received several death threats from illegal loggers, who are …
NAWALPARASI /PALPA , SEP 01 - The subsequent rise of timber smuggling in community forests located in the remote areas of Palpa and Nawalparasi has been blamed on the weakness of the District Forest Office and Community Forest consumer’s committee. According to sources, smugglers have been hauling timber to saw …
The authorities in Brazil say they have dismantled a criminal organisation they believe was the "biggest destroyer" of the Amazon rainforest. The gang is accused of invading, logging and burning large areas of public land and selling these illegally for farming and grazing. In a statement, Brazilian Federal Police said …
As many as 150 species of birds are in endangered list in Nepal of late. The birds have been at risk with the cleanup of their habitats, stated a report recently made public by the Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation and Bird Protection Association. Bird protection expert Khadananda …
The Telangana government is examining the idea of formation of armed forest protection teams and striking forces to prevent smuggling of teak and other timber from the forests of Adilabad, Warangal, Khammam and other districts. Minister for Forests and Environment Jogu Ramanna stated here on Thursday that they would create …
MANSEHRA: Hazara Commissioner Abid Ali Khan has asked people to extend their help to the government to protect forests in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “If we want to give healthy and pollution-free environment to our coming generations then we should help government in its sincere efforts to curb timber smuggling and control …
Environment and Forests Minister B. Gopalakrishna Reddy has said that the State government is mulling options for speedy disposal of the seized red sanders that are lying idle in various repositories in the State. According to an estimate, the State has more than 12,000 tonnes of red sanders logs seized …
In a sharp contradiction to the claims of district forest officials about serious steps being taken to protect forest areas, rampant smuggling of trees and other valuable forest products is on the rise in Ilam. The recent gun battle between the police and a group of smuggler at Chagu Dobhan …
The deforestation in Salakati–Fukagaon Reserve Forest under the Hultugaon Forest Division in Kokrajhar continues but the authority concerned has not taken any measure to check the massive felling of tress. A lot of valuable tress are allegedly being cut in the forest and are being supplied by smugglers in trucks …
Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have agreed to work together along with INTERPOL, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Development Program, the UN Environment Program and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to curb illegal logging and timber trade that is stripping the East African region of some …
In a sharp contradiction to the claims of district forest officials about serious steps being taken to protect forest areas, rampant smuggling of trees and other valuable forest products is on the rise in Ilam. The recent gun battle between the police and a group of smuggler at Chagu Dobhan …
This report focuses on the consequences of environmental crime. It argues that the situation has worsened to the extent that illegal trade in wildlife’s impacts are now acknowledged to go well beyond strictly environmental impacts – by seriously undermining economies and livelihoods, good governance, and the rule of law. It …
It has been found that logs of Saal, Sisau and Khayar, among others, are being smuggled from the National Forest area of Rautahat district. After sawing the trees, smugglers leave logs in the forest for some days. Later, they chop the green logs into pieces and smuggle them through the …
India’s tiger reserves have been witness to devastating forest fires many of which have been triggered by the timber lobby mafia. The catastrophic fire at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WSS) in Kerala some weeks ago took four days of massive firefighting. The report of senior vigilance officer to the Kerala …
When middlemen for Chinese traders approached Yusuf Diallo to cut timber from his farm in Guinea-Bissau, he says he knew he had no choice. Soldiers had simply threatened his neighbours when they refused. A clearing dotted with dozens of stumps now marks where lush tropical forest once stood outside his …
Myanmar's forests are the final frontier for the logging of tropical hardwoods in mainland Southeast Asia. Until a few weeks ago as many as a hundred timber trucks a day rolled through Marip Brang Mai's village in Kachin State, northeastern Myanmar, a couple of hours' walk from the country's border …
Illegally logged timber in Brazil is being laundered on a massive and growing scale and then sold on to unwitting buyers in the UK, US, Europe and China, Greenpeace claimed on Thursday. After a two-year investigation, the environmental campaign group says it has uncovered evidence of systematic abuse and a …
