<![CDATA[illegal logging news from mongabay.com]]> http://www.mongabay.com en-us Copyright 2006 mongabay.com Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800 <![CDATA[Cameroon and Nigeria to protect world's rarest gorilla]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0905-wcs_gorilla.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0905-wcs_gorilla.html <![CDATA[Ghana becomes first country to sign sustainable timber pact with the E.U.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0904-ghana_flegt.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0904-ghana_flegt.html <![CDATA[Malaysian logging scandal may delay trade negotiations with the E.U.]]> Tribun Pontianak. An environmental group is using the scandal as the basis for a request for the E.U. to delay timber trade talks with Malaysia.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-sarawak.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-sarawak.html <![CDATA[Oil development could destroy the most biodiverse part of the Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0812-oil_amazon.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0812-oil_amazon.html <![CDATA[Aquarium fish trade linked to cocaine, timber smuggling in Brazil]]> O Eco, a leading Brazilian environmental web site.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0811-brazil.html Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0811-brazil.html <![CDATA[Woolworths drops contract with APP, activist group remains wary]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0810-hance_woolworths.html Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0810-hance_woolworths.html <![CDATA[1.2 million ha of Congo rainforest certified for sustainable forestry]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-congo.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-congo.html <![CDATA[Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0805-tree_pr.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0805-tree_pr.html <![CDATA[Corporations become prime driver of deforestation, providing clear target for environmentalists]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-hance_tree_deforestation.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-hance_tree_deforestation.html <![CDATA[Future threats to the Amazon rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0801-amazon.html Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0801-amazon.html <![CDATA[Logging company Danzer accused of tax fraud in the Congo]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0731-danzer.html Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0731-danzer.html <![CDATA[Newly discovered monkey is critically endangered by logging, poaching]]> Oryx.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0728-kipunji.html Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0728-kipunji.html <![CDATA[Brazil to send more police into the Amazon to fight illegal logging]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-amazon.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-amazon.html <![CDATA[Amazon timber industry declares ban on illegal logging]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0718-amazon.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0718-amazon.html <![CDATA[Wal-Mart to ban sales of wood products from threatened rainforests]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-wal-mart.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-wal-mart.html <![CDATA[20% of Amazon timber illegally harvested from protected areas]]> O'Globo.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0707-amazon.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0707-amazon.html <![CDATA[EU may mandate certification system for Amazon timber]]> O Estado de Sao Paulo and the International Tropical Timber Organization, the European Union is considering a green-labeling program for certifying the origin of timber imports. The label is said to target widespread illegal logging in the Amazon. Europe about 47 percent of timber produced in the Amazon region.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0618-eu.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0618-eu.html <![CDATA[Forests face governance challenges]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-forest_governance.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-forest_governance.html <![CDATA[Brazil levies $279 million fine for illegal Amazon logging]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0611-brazil.html Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0611-brazil.html <![CDATA[40 arrested in illegal timber raid in the Brazilian Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0529-brazil_logging.html Thu, 29 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0529-brazil_logging.html <![CDATA[No sacrifices to ending deforestation in the Amazon, only gains]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-hance_abranches_interview.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-hance_abranches_interview.html <![CDATA[Peru fails to investigate murder of Amazon environmental leader]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0422-julio_garcia.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0422-julio_garcia.html <![CDATA[The FSC is the 'Enron of forestry' says rainforest activist]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0417-hance_interview_counsell.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0417-hance_interview_counsell.html <![CDATA[Indigenous peoples of Congo map their forests with GPS in an effort to save them]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0414-hance_congo.html Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0414-hance_congo.html <![CDATA[Lungless frog discovered in Borneo]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0411-borneo_frog.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0411-borneo_frog.html <![CDATA[The FSC responds to its critics]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0407-hance_fsc_interview.html Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0407-hance_fsc_interview.html <![CDATA[Asia Pulp & Paper destroying rare Sumatra forest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0327-sumatra_road.html Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0327-sumatra_road.html <![CDATA[U.S. furniture demand drives illegal logging in Laos]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0324-hance_vietnam_laos.html Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0324-hance_vietnam_laos.html <![CDATA[Amazon environmentalist gunned down in Peru]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0314-don_julio.html Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0314-don_julio.html <![CDATA[Brazil fails to implement deforestation plan - Amazon destruction jumps]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0306-amazon.html Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0306-amazon.html <![CDATA[Fighting illegal logging to be a top G8 priority in 2008]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0305-g8_timber.html Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0305-g8_timber.html <![CDATA[China's wood industry fueled by illegal log imports from rainforest countries]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0229-laurance_china.html Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0229-laurance_china.html <![CDATA[Staples dumps Asia Pulp & Paper over its destruction of virgin rainforests]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0208-staples.html Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0208-staples.html <![CDATA[Malaysian timber firm fined for illegal rainforest logging in Guyana]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0122-guyana.html Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0122-guyana.html <![CDATA[Sierra Leone bans timber exports]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0115-sierra_leone.html Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0115-sierra_leone.html <![CDATA[Paper giant illegally destroying orangutan habitat in Indonesia says WWF]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0109-app.html Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0109-app.html <![CDATA[Rainforest chief killed in Borneo for his opposition to logging]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0103-borneo_hance.html Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0103-borneo_hance.html <![CDATA[Pictures of new species discovered in West Africa]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1206-new_species_ghana.html Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1206-new_species_ghana.html <![CDATA[Indonesia will need 7 years to stop illegal logging]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1116-indo.html Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1116-indo.html <![CDATA[WSJ inquiry pushes FSC to cancel logging certification in endangered forest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1030-fsc.html Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1030-fsc.html <![CDATA[Uncontacted Amazon tribe spotted by plane in Peru]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1021-tribe_amazon.html Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1021-tribe_amazon.html <![CDATA[First photos of a wild South China Tiger in 34 years]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1014-burma.html Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1014-burma.html <![CDATA[Slash-and-burn undermines timber prices in Indonesia]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0911-indonesia.html Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0911-indonesia.html <![CDATA[Better fine collection would cut illegal logging in the Brazilian Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0911-brazil.html Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0911-brazil.html <![CDATA[NASA images show expansion of logging in Congo rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0715-nasa.html Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0715-nasa.html <![CDATA[China's paper recycling industry can help shield forests from destruction]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0715-china.html Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0715-china.html <![CDATA[China calls for sustainable logging by Chinese firms overseas]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0711-china.html Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0711-china.html <![CDATA[Poverty and corruption reduce effectiveness of rainforest parks]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0709-wright_fires.html Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0709-wright_fires.html <![CDATA[Home improvement giant bans illegal wood products]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0709-timber.html Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0709-timber.html <![CDATA[Environmentalists winning fight against illegal ramin timber trade]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0708-timber.html Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0708-timber.html