Liberia hopes to revive greener logging industry

Reuters: Forested nations used to fear tough rules on logging would hurt their valuable timber industries, but for Liberia they could be a way of reviving its sector -- by giving it privileged access to European markets. From 2012, any country that wants to export wood to the European Union will have to be able to prove it was not logged illegally, a regulation that has spurred a spate of deals with timber producing nations to better police their forests. The latest to enter into such so-called Voluntary......

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