" Other critics of the FAO data point out that they do not distinguish between forest types, and that they are based largely on reporting from forestry departments of individual countries, which do not take into account unofficial activities like illegal logging.

deforestation ( some the result of illegal logging ); overgrazing of the slopes of the coast and sierra leading to soil erosion ; desertification ; air pollution in Lima ; pollution of rivers and coastal waters from municipal and mining wastes

However, illegal logging has reduced forest cover to less than 10 % of the total land area.

80 percent of the mountain range is tropical rainforest, which is diminishing from rampant illegal logging activity.

However, the guide criticizes Phillips ' sourcing of fibres for paper, arguing it must develop a paper procurement policy which excludes suppliers involved in deforestation and illegal logging.

Most of Sumatra used to be covered by tropical rainforest, but economic development coupled with corruption and illegal logging has severely threatened its existence.

" Often the real source of border problems was ordinary criminals or local merchants involved in illegal mining, logging, smuggling, and narcotics production and trade.

* EIA forest reports: Investigations into illegal logging.

The tax was used to establish the Forestry Stewardship Council, which has been only minimally successful in forest restoration efforts and eliminating illegal logging.

Some background info on why the EU is lacking creditability in case of its programs to combat deforestation and illegal logging

In 1967, President Joaquín Balaguer launched military strikes against illegal logging.

Although strict limitations have been imposed on logging, illegal practices continue, including one in 2009 involving the discovery of teak logs floating in the river on the Thailand-Burma border.

Loss of habitat and over-exploitation for such products has put many species in danger of extinction as a result of overcutting, extensive illegal logging and habitat conversion.

SIVAM, the acronym for " System for Vigilance over the Amazon ," was a complex radar surveillance system for use in monitoring the Amazon rainforest, allegedly to curb the trafficking of narcotics and to curb illegal logging or burning of the forest.

Some problematic issues include spatial planning such as illegal construction, unregulated waste disposal, poor road and utilities infrastructure, illegal logging and hunting, and unclear land ownership.

In Oregon, where there are more logging projects on public land ( National Forests and BLM lands ), tree sitting is usually not trespassing but tree sitters can be fined for violating closure orders or camping limits, or for erecting illegal structures.

However, with road building by the state, logging ( some legal but mostly illegal ) by Thai companies, enclosure of land in national parks, and influx of immigrants from the lowlands, swidden fields can not be fallowed, can not re-grow, and swiddening results in large swathes of deforested mountainsides.

While protected from some of crime problems that affect their urban counterparts, this isolation has made the area attractive for drug runners bringing their merchandise into Mexico City, for kidnappers, illegal logging and more, which has led to a number of murders in the area.

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Although local traditions generally help protect lemurs and their forests, illegal logging, widespread poverty, and political instability hinder and undermine conservation efforts.

A major threat to the siamang is habitat loss due to plantation, forest fire, illegal logging, encroachment, and human development.

Thirdly, the rate of illegal logging in Indonesia increased from 1980 to 1995 and even more rapidly after the reformation era beginning in 1998.

The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal.

The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the " Capones ", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931.

Other issues with Venezuela include the presence of illegal undocumented Colombians in Venezuela, and activities of Colombian narcotics traffickers, and Venezuela's support for the Guerrillas in Colombia.

Some sexual activities are illegal either universally or in some countries, and some are considered against the norms of a society.

Some activities, known as sex crimes in some locations, are illegal in some jurisdictions, including those conducted between ( or among ) consenting and competent adults ( examples include sodomy law and adult-adult incest ).

However, analogous activities such as front running are illegal under U. S. commodity and futures trading laws.

In 1975, the activities of COINTELPRO were investigated by the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, called the Church Committee after its chairman, Senator Frank Church ( D-Idaho ), and these activities were declared illegal and contrary to the Constitution.

In the same year he was arrested, tried in court for his illegal communist activities, and sent to jail.

In extreme cases, violent or illegal activities may develop around these events.

Nick Fury leads the heroes to Latveria to deal with Lucia von Bardas after the President does not want to take action against her illegal activities.

The main objective of FinTRACA is to deny the use of the Afghan financial system to those who obtained funds as the result of illegal activity, and to those who would use it to support terrorist activities.

Nauru was also approached by the U. S. with a deal to modernize Nauru's infrastructure in exchange for suppression of the island's lax banking laws that allow activities that are illegal in other countries to flourish.

These roamed the rural borderlands of central Europe embarking on many of the same illegal activities associated with today ’ s crime organisations, with the exception of money laundering.

The activities that constitute illegal corruption differ depending on the country or jurisdiction.

In a 2001 review of Midas Dekkers ' Dearest Pet: On Bestiality, Singer argues that sexual activities between humans and animals that result in harm to the animal should remain illegal, but that " sex with animals does not always involve cruelty " and that " mutually satisfying activities " of a sexual nature may sometimes occur between humans and animals, and that writer Otto Soyka would condone such activities.

" This conference led to the abolition of forced labor and the code de l ' indigénat, which made the political and social activities of the indigenous people illegal.

He also alleged that, later in Askin's premiership, Abe Saffron became the " bagman " for Sydney's illegal liquor and prostitution rackets and most illegal gambling activities, collecting payoffs that were then passed to Askin, Allan and others, in return for which his father was completely protected.

In early books most activities are illegal, although directed at villains.

She had maintained throughout the show's run that she was never diagnosed with either anorexia or bulimia, nor was she a user of illegal drugs.

* 1807: The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on 25 March 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire.

Lacking even modest government-directed land reforms, illegal squatting became the primary means for poor people to gain land throughout the early 1970s.

Key legislative actions included declaration of the Vichy laws and acts as unconstitutional and therefore illegal, re-establishment of republican legality throughout metropolitan France, election of replacement local governments that had been suppressed by the Vichy regime, voting for women, and implementation of labour laws.

Set against that is a strong culture of motor sport enthusiasm ( pinaccled in the TT, but there are a huge number of events throughout the year ) and the better locals are well used to traversing country roads at speeds illegal in roads of such low quality anywhere else on earth.

American pressure against the government escalated throughout 1983 and 1984, including attacks on Nicaraguan ports and oil installations and the laying of magnetic mines outside Nicaraguan harbours, actions condemned as illegal in 1986 by the International Court of Justice.

One of the most significant milestones in the campaign to abolish slavery throughout the world occurred in England in 1772, with British judge Lord Mansfield, whose opinion in Somersett's Case was widely taken to have held that slavery was illegal in England.

The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 25, 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire, Wilberforce also campaigned for abolition of slavery in the British Empire, which he lived to see in the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

Currently, economic instability appears to be the main reason for illegal migration movement throughout the world.

Currently, harvesting of Tufted Puffin is illegal or discouraged throughout its range.

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As of 2009, there remain 80 countries worldwide where homosexual acts remain illegal ( notably throughout the Middle East, South Asia and in most of Africa, but also in much of the Caribbean and Oceania ) including five that carry the death penalty.

The experiences of dollarization in countries with weak economies and currencies ( for example Israel in the 1980s, Eastern Europe and countries in the period immediately after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, or South American countries throughout the late 20th and early 21st century ) may be seen as Gresham's Law operating in its reverse form ( Guidotti & Rodriguez, 1992 ), since in general the dollar has not been legal tender in such situations, and in some cases its use has been illegal.

WWII thus marks the origin of the 3-way split of literature that continued throughout the socialist years until 1989: domestic published, domestic illegal, and exile literature.

Marwan Barghouti refused to present a defense to the charges brought against him, maintaining throughout that the trial was illegal and illegitimate.

Marwan Barghouti refused to present a defense to the charges brought against him, maintaining throughout that the trial was illegal and illegitimate.

Lang then contended that the Act was rendered null and void by contravening the 1833 prohibition of slavery throughout the British Empire ; the Premier held that the actions of the Lyons government deprived the State of New South Wales of paying the wages of State employees and that this necessarily constituted an ( illegal ) state of slavery.

Korean War veteran Lucas Doolin ( Robert Mitchum ) works in the family moonshine business — delivering the illegal liquor his father distills to clandestine distribution points throughout the south in his souped-up hot rod.

Additional revenues came from the Sun City casino, which was a day trip from Johannesburg and Pretoria, where gambling was illegal under the National Party government, as it was throughout all of South Africa.

Often seen as the country where the plant originates from, throughout India it is illegal to grow, consume, or traffic cannabis since 1980, although there is a variation in penalties and enforcement according to the region.

The example of Great Britain was then followed by the following countries in abolishing slavery within their dominions: in 1848 the slaves in all France's colonies were immediately emancipated ; in 1853 the Dutch commenced emancipation of slaves within their possessions ; in 1858 it was enacted that every slave belonging to a Portuguese subject should be freed within 20 years and, from 29 April 1878, slavery became illegal throughout Portuguese possessions ; the government of Buenos Aires enacted that all children of slaves after the 31 January 1813 should be free ; in Columbia those born after 16 July 1821 were to be liberated upon attaining 18 and Mexico ended slavery on 15 September 1829.

During this time, the sale, manufacture, and transportation ( bootlegging ) of alcoholic beverages was illegal throughout the United States.

However, because human genetic engineering is illegal in the United Federation of Planets, Bashir and his parents kept his procedure a secret throughout most of his adult life ( DS9 episode: " Doctor Bashir, I Presume?