Missouriwatcher
Editor, Senior Moderator
"Indonesia is missing out on 1.3 billion euros a year in tax revenue due to illegal logging...
Human Rights Watch also highlights the widespread corruption in the logging sector and the implications for the environment. The organisation argues that deforestation is the main reason for Indonesia having the world's third highest level of greenhouse-gas emissions."
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/illegal-logging-costs-indonesia-billions
"Indonesia's timber that is stolen from the country's forests finds it way on to the international market either directly or through neighbouring states, especially Malaysia and Singapore where the timber is successfully laundered and sent onto the US, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and Mainland China marketplace."
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2002/timber_mafia/viewpoints/viewpoints_doherty.htm
"A logging operation planned by Asia's biggest pulp producer in Indonesia's Sumatra island threatens the habitat of rare orangutans, tigers and elephants..."
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE54I13W20090519
Human Rights Watch also highlights the widespread corruption in the logging sector and the implications for the environment. The organisation argues that deforestation is the main reason for Indonesia having the world's third highest level of greenhouse-gas emissions."
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/illegal-logging-costs-indonesia-billions
"Indonesia's timber that is stolen from the country's forests finds it way on to the international market either directly or through neighbouring states, especially Malaysia and Singapore where the timber is successfully laundered and sent onto the US, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and Mainland China marketplace."
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2002/timber_mafia/viewpoints/viewpoints_doherty.htm
"A logging operation planned by Asia's biggest pulp producer in Indonesia's Sumatra island threatens the habitat of rare orangutans, tigers and elephants..."
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE54I13W20090519