New Logging 'Crime Wave'
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
When it comes to illegal logging in Indonesia, plantation companies have flown under the radar for a long time. Perhaps no more. A new report sheds light on what has until now been a murky but vast stream of illicit timberproduced by unscrupulous oil palm firms.
"Illegal logging in oil palm concessions is out of control and Indonesia's revamped timber laws have completely failed to rein it in," Tomasz Johnson, a forest campaigner from London-based NGO Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), said last week in Jakarta.
When it comes to illegal logging in Indonesia, plantation companies have flown under the radar for a long time. Perhaps no more. A new report sheds light on what has until now been a murky but vast stream of illicit timberproduced by unscrupulous oil palm firms.
"Illegal logging in oil palm concessions is out of control and Indonesia's revamped timber laws have completely failed to rein it in," Tomasz Johnson, a forest campaigner from London-based NG
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