Nicaragua cloud forest 'under siege' by illegal loggers

[Judi Lynn]

4. I see. The Nicaraguans take the lumber, make their chairs and sit on them.

Yep, that sounds about right.

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For those who think differently:

America’s Free Trade
for Illegal Timber

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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 illegal logging epidemic:
Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Peru and Central America.

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http://www.eia-global.org/PDF/report--FreeTrade--forests--jun06.pdf

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No Questions Asked
The Impacts of U.S. Market Demand for
Illegal Timber - and the Potential for Change
Environmental Investigation Agency

http://www.eia-global.org/PDF/report-NQA-forests-oct07.pdf

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U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru's Amazon rainforest
Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com
April 10, 2012

Read more at http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0410-hance_illegallogging_peru_eia.html#wYFUzLmz2r1ygOzl.99

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