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The Enivronmental Crime Crisis - Threats to Sustainable Development from Illegal Exploitation and Trade in Wildlife and Forest Resources. A UNEP Rapid Assessment
… DRIV ERS GRID-Arendal and Zoï Environment Network, 2012. Resource depletion Gold, diamond, rare earth... Livelihoods … as the primary reason to continue to fight.61 Such “resource wars” stem from “armed conflict in which the control … directly implicated in illicit timber, charcoal, gold, and mineral trades and have been connected to serious human …
ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests
… forests used for timber production can constitute a major resource for biodiversity conservation. Indeed, it is crucial … threats such as hunting, fire, invasive species and mineral extraction. Logging inevitably leads to changes in … outside the forest sector. Agricultural conversion and mineral exploitation are often undertaken with inadequate …