AR-News: (UK) Hard to stop smuggled Indonesian timber-Malaysia

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Malaysia said on Wednesday it was unable to 
stop smuggled Indonesian wood from reaching its ports due to a legal loophole 
but pledged to work with green groups that exposed the problem. 
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which published a scathing 
report on Malaysia after a two-year probe on trade of banned Indonesian ramin 
wood, maintained that Malaysian officials were working with smugglers. 
"We believe that the trade in (Indonesian) ramin is known by certain 
officials," EIA president Allan Thornton told reporters after a stormy two-hour 
meeting with Malaysian Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik. 
"What we've heard today is that Malaysian law does not allow to fully 
legislate, to stop the trade through free ports and that does not comply with the 
convention on international trade of endangered species," Thornton said. 
The United Nations convention is intended to slow the rate of global 
extinctions of animals and plants significantly by 2010.





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