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    "Cut and Run: Illegal Logging and Timber Trade in the Tropics" by Rob Glastra

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    "Cut and Run: Illegal Logging and Timber Trade in the Tropics" by Rob Glastra

    "Cut and Run: Illegal Logging and Timber Trade in the Tropics" by Rob Glastra
    International Development Research Centre
    IDRС | 1999 | ISBN: 0889368627 9780889368620 9781552500538 | 98 pages | PDF/epub | 1 MB

    This book offers readers some valuable insights on how this might be done. It exposes and analyzes illegal practices in the logging industry and timber trade of four tropical countries. The book also provides a global overview of the problem and presents solid conclusions and recommendations for effective future regulation of this precious resource.


    Illegal logging and trade in timber is a major cause of forest degradation in the world today. Not only does it threaten biodiversity-rich old growth forests, it also endangers the livelihoods of the traditional communities that are dependent upon them. But controlling this global problem is not a simple matter of enacting new laws and enforcing new regulations –- the rules already exist. If countries are to manage their forest sustainability they must implement existing laws effectively, and they must do so now!

    In Brazil, Asian logging companies are furtively establishing themselves in Amazonia. In Paraguay, complicity in illegal activities has reached the highest levels of society. In Ghana, illegal activity by cocoa farmers is devastating forests. And, in Cameroon, fines and fees are seldom imposed and enforcement is grossly inadequate. Of course, these countries are not alone. From Paraguay to Siberia, from Thailand to Canada, our forests are being jeopardized by unscrupulous and illegal logging practices.

    Contents
    Foreword — David B. Brooks (IDRC)
    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    Chapter 1 The World: Understanding the Illegal Logging and Timber Trade
    Deforestation, forest degradation, and the timber industry
    Changing global trade patterns
    Illegality and unsustainability: general observations and regional summaries
    Regional summaries
    National and international regulatory mechanisms
    Conclusions
    Chapter 2 Brazil: Forest Management at Loggerheads
    Illegal logging on the government agenda
    Illegality and unsustainability
    How concession-management plans have failed
    The cost structure of logging
    Making laws and regulations more feasable
    Planning forest land use
    Mahogany and CITES
    Information tools
    Fines and enforcement costs: a vicious circle
    East Asian loggers: a new threat
    Peru and the logging frontier
    The brazil nut tree: the next logging victim?
    Chapter 3 Cameroon: Blind Ambition and the Domino Effect
    Background
    Former (pre-1994) forest legislation in theory and practice
    New (1994) forest law
    How national newspapers perceive the problem
    Types and occurrence of illegal practices
    Motivations and perspectives of the principal actors
    Some impacts of illegal logging
    Recommendations
    Chapter 4 Ghana: A History of Mismanagement
    Problems
    Impacts
    Managing illegal logging in Ghana
    Local communities and illegal logging
    Timber harvesting
    Government policies
    Corruption
    Productivity loss
    Chapter 5 Paraguay: The Many Faces of Deforestation
    Working with institutions.
    The Alto Paraguay case
    Illegal log trafficking into Brazil
    Recommendations
    Chapter 6 The Tropics: Comparing the Countries Studied
    Contextual factors: similarities and differences among the four countries
    Local and indigenous communities and illegal logging
    Specific impacts of illegal logging and timber trade
    The importance of local NGOs as watchdogs
    Chapter 7 Conclusions and Recommendations: Arresting the Chase for Quick Profits
    Conclusions
    Recommendations
    Appendix 1 Resolution on Illegal Timber Trade, Adopted at the 1996 IUCN World Conservation Congress
    Appendix 2 Friends of the Earth International
    Appendix 3 Acronyms and Abbreviations
    Bibliography

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