Tag Archives : illegal logging

A pilot project developed by the NGO Ação Verde (Green Action in Portuguese) is being tested on the farm Carandá in New Mutum (Brazil). To avoid the deforestation of the Amazon, microchips are being implanted in the trees to help the authorities track the timber if it is cut and sold illegally. Small chips can store data such as tree location, size [...]

More than 70 percent of Indonesia’s original forest cover has been lost. Logging, which is mostly illegal, is estimated to destroy over 2.4 million hectares per year. Re-elected Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) gets international praise for leading the fight against deforestation in his country. All Indonesian presidents in [...]

Madagascar owns one of the world’s richest biodiversity hotspots. In some of the country’s protected areas, organized groups engaged in illegal logging have been felling ‘valuable rosewood trees and extracting other resources’ mostly from the Marojejy National Park and Masoala National Park. To prove that illegal logging, a major cause [...]

The destruction of animal and plant species in the rainforest has been rapid. The loss is permanent. According to the German environmental organization OroVerde, three different types of animal and plant life are made extinct every hour. The biggest killer of the rainforest is man. The ecosystem is disturbed and biodiversity destroyed with the incursion [...]

The Amazon rainforest has deteriorated just a bit more in four years, losing 11,968 sq km of land to clearing from January to July this year alone. Higher by 4 percent as compared to the same period last year, Amazon deforestation has largely been due to illegal logging. There had been efforts to curb the trend but results have still been unsatisfactory. [...]