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The Last Frontier - Illegal Logging in Papua and China's Massive Timber Theft

Submitted by rains on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 10:22
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Report by the Environmental Investigation Agency & Telepak

Extract: Official complicity

For the full report, see:
http://www.eia-international.org/files/reports93-1. pdf

Companies involved in timber theft from Papua are aided every step of the way by officials from the military, police and forestry department, as long as the requisite bribe is paid.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ VOICE SUPPRESSED AT UNITED NATIONS

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:47
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Rome, Feb. 14, 2008 - This morning Indigenous Peoples’ representatives formally withdrew from meeting of the Working Group on Protected Areas of the International Convention on Biological Diversity to protest their suppression of their effective participation at the meeting, being held at FAO headquarters in the Italian capital.