Large quantities of land, forest and farms are being cut and turned into charcoal.

Reports on agenda items 2 (b) to 11

H. Illegal logging

This means that the effects of logging also extend beyond the areas that are actually managed.

3.2 As to the effect of the logging on the author's herd, it is submitted that reindeer tend to avoid areas being logged or prepared for logging.

The authors allege that the principal cause of this decline in winter pastures, and particularly of horsehair lichen pastures, are the logging operations.

Introduction emerging trends

Evidence suggests that legitimate logging companies are often heavily implicated in extensive illegal logging activities.

In contrast to industrial logging, pit sawing (processing logs using chainsaws) is increasing as the domestic market grows.

I'm a gentleman. A rough lumber man from the Northwest?

An important measure to curb illegal logging is to ensure that consumer countries make greater efforts to limit the market share for illegal timber.

You know, whether it's chopping it, or carving it or... or wearing it.

Today's biggest threat to the Ashaninka people and to Benki comes from illegal logging the people who come into the beautiful forest and cut down ancient mahogany trees, float them down the river to world markets.

These elements are said to be satisfied, since the State party itself recognizes that the effects have been more serious, while it continues both to log and to plan further logging.

7.7 The logging operations in Pyhäjärvi in 1996 (170 hectares) and in 1999 (regeneration fellings over 60 hectares), as well as operations in Kirkko outa in 1998 (regeneration fellings amounting to 70 hectares and thinning amounting to 200 hectares) were already taken into account by the Human Rights Committee on 22 November 1996.

They're disappearing because some timber companies go in with clear cutting.

I'm frightfully sorry old chap, our lumberjack friend made a mistake.

Our lumberjack friend made a mistake.

Poverty and unemployment have pushed people indiscriminately into activities that might provide a living, for example, the felling and selling of firewood and the production of charcoal.

Draft conclusions proposed by the Chair

The authors argue that the impact of logging operations are long term, practically permanent, and that the measures employed create new damage, exacerbate existing damage, and extent the area affected by logging.

Everywhere there has been constant extraction of mineral, killing animals, the logging timbers and so on.

And then when I would run out of that story, I would imagine that woodcutter's universe is one atom in the ax of another woodcutter.

After logging, logging waste prevents reindeer grazing and compacted snow hampers digging.

In fact, there have been very few logging operations in the area, the surface of the lands subject to logging amounting to approximately 1.2 per cent of the area administered by the Committee.

In view of the total surface of forest areas, both the logging operations carried out and the planned ones are less extensive than those carried out in private forests in the area.

Increased support to timber producing countries to take advantage of new market opportunities and meet the requirements of more demanding markets can help them in their efforts to tackle illegal logging.

7.8 As to the effects of logging on reindeer herding, the State party notes that it has not been shown that the effects of the earlier logging operations were more than anticipated.

But all before that there was a woodcutter.

Every villager and woodcutter's his friend.

All right, all right, you boring Canadian lumberjack.

In some countries, illegal logging is said to constitute around three quarters of total timber production.

(f) Illegal logging and associated trade in forest products

If, on the other hand, the aim is to engage in reindeer husbandry based purely on natural pastures, then loggings even those notified as relatively mild will be of greater significance for reindeer husbandry that is already in difficulties for other reasons .

The timber and oil industries accounted for 89.6 per cent of total exports in 1995.

Now I actually think that these ideas will change the economics of deforestation.

Then you shut up too with all this lumberjack stuff.

One option is to develop an extensive reforestation and land rehabilitation programme in areas previously deforested by logging, mineral mining and other destructive industrial activities.

My grandfather had been a lumberjack in the Olympics, so I have a lot of tree karma I am working off.

So, when the logging camp moves, there's nothing left.

Intensive forestry is depleting the soil and exposing it to erosion.

You talk like a fella just might as well run around naked.

3.5 Despite the recent reductions in reindeer herds, the National Forest Park Service continues to conduct logging operations, destroying the Herdsmen's Committee's pastures, and further deteriorating husbandry conditions.

While reindeer owners have required the National Forest and Park Service to terminate forestry activities in the land areas administered by the Committee, they did not reduce their own logging operations.

It observes that the regeneration fellings (300 hectares) in the Angeli area constitute 0.8 per cent and the thinning logging operations (200 hectares) constitute 0.5 per cent of the forest, administered by the Muotkatunturi Herdsmen's Committee.