Despite a ban on timber exports and the government’s repeated declaration that “large-scale” logging has been stopped, Vietnamese customs data compiled by watchdog Forest Trends show a significant increase in the import of Cambodian logs and sawn wood in 2017.
Tag - loggers
jeudi 8 février 2018
Timber trade to Vietnam up – again
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 8 février 2018, 08:32 - News in english
vendredi 22 décembre 2017
Officials deny timber sent to Vietnam via Sesan
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 22 décembre 2017, 09:50 - News in english
Ratanakkiri Military Police officials yesterday denied multiple local media reports that thousands of logs of luxury timber were being transported on the Sesan River to be sent to Vietnam illegally.
vendredi 24 février 2017
Loggers caught trafficking timber in 8 trucks bound for Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 24 février 2017, 08:39 - News in english
Authorities in Mondolkiri province seized eight trucks about to cross into Vietnam with illegally logged timber from the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary and arrested seven of the drivers, six of them Vietnamese nationals, a provincial military police commander said on Thursday.
jeudi 3 décembre 2015
Illegal logging cuts down national park
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 3 décembre 2015, 09:03 - News in english
Hundreds of trees are being cut down in Yok Don National Park in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam, despite efforts from forest management officers.
mercredi 27 novembre 2013
EU timber policy slows illegal logging in Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mercredi 27 novembre 2013, 07:20 - News in english
Exporting wooden furniture boosted Vietnam’s economy but weakened its natural resources through deforestation. Now EU regulations promoting sustainability are benefiting farmers as well as their land.
samedi 6 avril 2013
3 arrested for brutally killing loggers in Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 6 avril 2013, 08:52 - News in english
Two Vietnamese men and a Lao have been arrested for allegedly battering to death five Vietnamese in a forest along the border between the two countries when the latter were hunting for rare wood on March 23.
lundi 17 décembre 2012
Vietnamese guards brave attack to reverse destruction of the forest
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 17 décembre 2012, 18:35 - News in english
Vietnam's remote forests have finally come to the attention of ecologists, but efforts to protect wildlife and people risk being stymied by the habits – and hardship – of poachers and loggers
vendredi 29 juillet 2011
Vietnam makes millions off illicit log trade with Laos
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 29 juillet 2011, 08:54 - News in english
Bangkok - Vietnam last year imported about 500,000 cubic metres of illegally harvested timber from neighbouring Laos, feeding its billion-dollar export industry of wood products to Europe and other markets, an environmental group said Thursday.
vendredi 30 octobre 2009
Loggers kill forest ranger in Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 30 octobre 2009, 08:39 - News in english
A forest ranger was killed and two others were badly injured when illegal loggers attacked them in a forest in Vietnam, police said yesterday. Huynh Lien, police chief of Cu Mgar district in Dak Lak province, said the rangers had underestimated the loggers' willingness to use violence.
