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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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1 results foundAuthor: Environmental Investigation Agency Title: First Class Connection: Log Smuggling, Illegal Logging, and Corruption in Mozambique Summary: Detailing the findings of EIA undercover investigations in Mozambique, and outlining timber trade data discrepancies, this briefing provides compelling evidence of how China’s insatiable demand for timber is directly driving increased illegal logging and timber smuggling in Mozambique, and robbing the impoverished country of significant revenues. Trade data discrepancies indicate that in 2012 Chinese companies imported between 189,615 and 215,654 cubic metres of timber illegally exported from Mozambique - constituting up to 48 per cent of China’s imports from the country. Further, EIA research shows that China’s 2012 imports from Mozambique dwarf not only licensed exports, but also exceed the licensed harvest by 154,030 cubic metres– generating an alarming 48 per cent illegal logging rate in the country. Such crimes are costing Mozambique tens of millions of dollars a year in lost tax revenues – funds desperately needed in what is the world’s fourth least developed nation. Expanding on a November 2012 EIA report on China’s illegal timber imports, this briefing provides detailed investigative case studies into some of the biggest companies engineering these crimes in Mozambique today, exposing the smuggling techniques and the political patronage and corruption that facilitate it. Finally, the briefing makes clear recommendations to the Mozambican Government on how to eliminate such illegal logging and trade and protect its forests from illegal timber traders. Details: London: EIA, 2013. 16p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 28, 2013 at: http://www.eia-global.org/PDF/EIAFirstClassConnectionslores.pdf Year: 2013 Country: Mozambique URL: http://www.eia-global.org/PDF/EIAFirstClassConnectionslores.pdf Shelf Number: 128158 Keywords: Forest ManagementIllegal Logging (Mozambique)Illegal Timber TradeNatural ResourcesTimber Smuggling |