New Scientist: It's not as glamorous as cocaine or diamonds, but the illegal logging industry has become very attractive to criminal organisations over the past decade. A new report finds that up to 90 per cent of tropical deforestation can be attributed to organised crime, which controls up to 30 per cent of the global timber trade. For years, environmental regulators thought that illegal logging was decreasing worldwide. But they were just looking in the wrong places, says Christian Nelleman, author of the...
URL: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22321-how-the-mafia-is-destroying-the-rainforests.html
Enclosure: http://dev.grida.no/logging/layout/RRAlogging_english_scr.pdf
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