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INDONESIA - Audits could curb illegal logging (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com Published October 17, 2008 08:06 AM Accessed via the Environmental News Network The Indonesian ForestryMinistry's bold move to require forestry companies to have their wood stocks audited throughout the supply chain to ensure ...
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Brazil's worst logger - the government? (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
new governmental report lists Brazil's land reform agency as the biggest culprit for illegal logging of Amazon rain forests. By Andrew Downie\ Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitorfrom the October 3, 2008 edition São Paulo, Brazil Brazil's environment ...
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Africa, New Technology to Sever Timber's Link to Conflict? (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://allafrica.com/stories/200808080580.html Inter Press Service (Johannesburg) 8 August 2008 Posted to the web 8 August 2008 Michael Deibert New York While conflict diamonds or blood diamonds, as they are known, have gained attention the world over ...
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Congo launches review of logging contracts (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
From: Reuters Published July 31, 2008 08:43 AM http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/37819  KINSHASA (Reuters) Congo, home to the world's second largest tropical forest, launched a review of all timber contracts on Wednesday in an ...
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SENEGAL - Finding incentives for peace in Casamance (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
ZIGUINCHOR, 25 June 2008 (IRIN) Civilians are growing increasingly desperate to return to their villages in Casamance, but with violent incidents continuing and the peace process "still at a stalemate" according to peace negotiators, some see little reason for hope. "The peace process has ...
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When Biofuel is Bad for the Environment (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1688893,00.html  By KRISTA MAHR/RIAU Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007 On a recent humid morning in Riau, a province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a young man named Suranto wakes early on a Sunday, wraps a red ...
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