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Mr President, every so often I am in touch with Father Hector Turrini and he with me. This is in order to keep him alive. He is a priest living in Acre in Brazil. He and his mission seek to protect the local communities from the loggers. Some of his mission have been murdered and he tells me that he expects one day to be killed himself. Those are the lengths that illegal loggers will go to for criminal gain at the expense of the environment, local communities and even human life.
In Papua, Stone Age communities are exposed, their health contaminated, their cultures destroyed by loggers bulldozing their greedy way through rainforests. The European Union is still one of the largest importers of illegally sourced timber.
In Europe we have lost most of our ancient forests and woodlands, to the detriment of our environment and our native species. It is not too late to protect the less developed parts of the world and thus protect the two-thirds of the world’s land animals and plant species that live there. But we need to move fast. Papua New Guinea has already lost 65% of its rainforests. Globally, 10 million hectares are lost every day. Since 1970 an area of rainforest the size of France has been lost in the Amazon. Twenty million people in the Amazon and 12 million in Africa are at risk, not to mention the great apes and other species of mammals and birds found nowhere else in the world.
In 1998 the G8 agreed that action was needed. In 2003 the FLEGT was designed to help developing countries to stop illegal logging and to reduce the trade in illegal products, particularly those that come into the European Union. But it is not yet being implemented. The Commissioner has helpfully told us what action is being taken. I would say to him that every day we delay, lives, livelihoods, environments and species are being lost."@en1
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