PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Muhammad Sohail Afridi has ordered a strict crackdown against the ...

Illegal timber in Peru is sourced and sold across the country. But most of the money laundering happens in between these destinations. Our team traveled to Pucallpa, the hub of this illicit activity.

The illegal timber trade is worth billions. High returns and low rates of prosecution attract organized crime. In the past year alone, 120 million tons of timber in Europe had no official certificate ...

Pakistan's timber gangs operate freely in many parts of the country, profiting from illegal logging often with the backing of local officials - and that poses a big problem for fledgling efforts to ...

KASUR, June 19: Villagers and officials of a sensitive agency thrashed timber mafia on Tuesday when they were illegally cutting trees adjacent to Rajbah Ram Thamman and Sirhali Khurd under the ...

Experts warned on Sunday that illegal tree cutting is a major cause of pollution, as it releases stored carbon ...

FOR the last 10 years indiscriminate chopping of trees has been continuing in the Kachho area of Johi tehsil, without any hindrance from any government authority. Kachho is a natural disaster - prone ...

A dozen women walked down a leaf-scattered path, clutching weapons. Some held hatchets, others bamboo sticks. They stopped under the canopy of an arjun tree, near cows tethered to its roots, and ...

Bagaha, Feb. 20: “Wing commander”, that’s the sobriquet this namesake of the iconic lover, Laila, has earned in the circle of smugglers through years of smuggling Indian timber from Bihar to Nepal.

Nov. 22: Encouraged by a haul of timber worth nearly Rs 6 lakh on Tuesday, the Dibrugarh forest division (territorial) has decided to continue with more intensity its crackdown on the illegal timber ...

The mafia that makes trafficking of illegally-sourced wood possible in Peru is not made up of timber trade outlaws. It is a network of corrupt officials. In Pucallpa, the hub of the illegal timber ...

The Amazon, Peru - Hanging bridge over the Amazon forest. Credit Image: Kike Calvo ZUMA Wire / PA images. All rights reserved In Pucallpa, the hub of the illegal ...