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America’s Free Trade for Illegal Timber

Posted 12 February 2010 infotelapakPosted in Laporan

How US Trade Pacts Speed the Destruction of the World’s Forests As this report is published, the US is cementing economic partnerships which could further speed the destruction of Southeast Asian and Latin American forests. The list of looming US Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) reads like a who’s who of states involved in the global

Trial by Fire

Posted 10 January 2010 infotelapakPosted in Laporan

Forest Fires and Forest Policy in Indonesia’s Era of Crisis and Reform Nearly 10 million hectares were burned by fires that engulfed areas of Indonesia in 1997 and 1998. The fires were mostly ignited by plantation companies and others eager to clear forest land as rapidly and cheaply as possible. Economic damages from the resultant