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▻http://www.rfi.fr/economie/20180313-bois-tropical-sursis-groupe-rougier-justice-france

Au-delà de Rougier ce sont tous les acteurs européens du bois tropical qui sont fragilisés. Ils ont beaucoup investi dans la #certification_FSC, un processus d’amélioration continue, pourtant ils voient leur débouché naturel se fermer en Europe. Les importateurs sont frileux depuis le règlement bois européen de 2013. L’Autrichien IFO au #Congo, le néerlandais Wijma au #Cameroun, l’Italien Cora Wood au #Gabon, se vendent aujourd’hui aux Chinois. Ce sont les Asiatiques qui achètent aujourd’hui le #bois_tropical_africain, et ils sont beaucoup moins regardants sur la légalité du bois. Rougier a déjà suspendu sa certification au Cameroun, il pourrait à son tour céder certaines de ses activités à des groupes asiatiques.

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▻http://www.conservation-watch.org/2017/05/10/wwf-and-the-loggers-in-the-congo-basin

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It is less clear why a conservation organisation would partner with a logging company. Surely the indigenous people living in the forest that need the of support conservationists, not the logging company.

Quelques questions pour le #WWF sur son partenariat avec l’entreprise forestière Rougier au Cameroun
▻http://www.redd-monitor.org/2016/06/22/some-questions-for-wwf-about-its-partnership-with-logging-company-roug
►https://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest
▻https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/nature-environnement/recul-et-progression-de-la-foret-dans-le-monde_11762
▻http://www.intactforests.org/world.map.html
#déforestation

Chocolate industry drives rainforest disaster in Ivory Coast | Environment | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/13/chocolate-industry-drives-rainforest-disaster-in-ivory-coast?CMP=share_

The world’s chocolate industry is driving deforestation on a devastating scale in West Africa, the Guardian can reveal.

Cocoa traders who sell to Mars, Nestlé, Mondelez and other big brands buy beans grown illegally inside protected areas in the Ivory Coast, where rainforest cover has been reduced by more than 80% since 1960.

Illegal product is mixed in with “clean” beans in the supply chain, meaning that Mars bars, Ferrero Rocher chocolates and Milka bars could all be tainted with “dirty” cocoa. As much as 40% of the world’s cocoa comes from Ivory Coast.

#cacao #déforestation

Government Accuses NASA of Incitement Over Deforestation Data

The Environment Ministry has accused the U.S.’s space agency and local media outlets of “incitement” for publishing and misreporting year-old deforestation data that show years of rapid forest loss.

In 2015, the University of Maryland used U.S. satellite data to reveal that between 2001 and 2014 the annual forest loss rate in Cambodia accelerated by 14.4 percent, leading to one of the highest deforestation rates in the world since the turn of the century.

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