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Category: Laos

REDD: The world’s largest top-down tool in development cooperation

Posted on 13 October 201625 April 2017

“The aim of reducing the emissions from forest destruction and degradation caused by industrial agriculture, logging, mining for fossil resources, etc. is today decisive to the survival of humankind and our planet. However, when the tool to achieve this aim is the trading of emission credits (offsets), we arrive at the wrong solutions.”

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Can REDD save the forests of Laos?

Posted on 26 February 201622 March 2016

In 2000, the Bangkok-based NGO TERRA published an anonymous article in its magazine Watershed. The article documented how Laos was losing its forests to large scale industrial logging, often carried out in breach of the country’s forestry laws.

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Leaked WWF report on illegal logging in Laos: “A worst-case scenario”

Posted on 22 October 2015

A leaked WWF report exposes the scale of illegal logging in Laos. Almost all of timber exports from Laos go to Vietnam and China. In 2013, Laos exported 1.4 million cubic metres of timber to these two countries. That’s more than 10 times the official timber harvest in Laos.

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Demand for luxury furniture in China pushes Siamese rosewood to the brink of extinction

Posted on 16 May 201431 October 2017

“Hongmu” is a style of intricately carved Chinese wooden furniture and artworks. It’s found on sale in glitzy shopping malls across mainland China. But behind the timber used to create this art form is a violent crime wave.

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Can REDD stop the land grabbing crisis in Laos and Cambodia?

Posted on 15 May 20131 June 2020

This week, Global Witness released a new report investigating a land grabbing crisis in Laos and Cambodia. The report looks at two Vietnamese “rubber baron” companies, Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG). Global Witness found that these companies “have leased vast tracts of land for plantations in Laos and Cambodia,…

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