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Africas logging permit crisis puts EU at risk of laundering illegal timber imports
2013-04-30 08:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global Witness: Systematic abuse of small, poorly regulated logging permits in Africa by companies, forest officials and politicians is undermining efforts to fight deforestation and keep illegal timber out of the EU, says a new report by Global Witness. The new report, Logging in the shadows, identifies a largely hidden pattern of abuse across Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana and Liberia, in which permits designed to promote small businesses and meet local needs are being allocated in...
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Canada to introduce security risk assessment system at airports
2013-04-30 01:00:00| Airport Technology
The Canadian Government is planning to introduce a security risk assessment system at airports in the country, which would assist in identifying, analysing and prioritising risks based on threat.
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AUDIO: Care homes 'at risk of going bust'
2013-04-29 13:39:28| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Last year 67 care home businesses went bust compared to 28 cases in 2008. Stephen Grant from accountancy firm Wilkins Kennedy said some people go into the business "to make an easy buck".
Flood risk not scaring off potential home buyers
2013-04-29 06:24:46| Real Estate - Topix.net
Heightened flood risks as a result of the Waldo Canyon Fire aren't having a negative effect on the real estate market in the area, experts said.
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Boost to Colorado Snowpack May Lessen Wildfire Risk
2013-04-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As recently as late March it appeared that most of the West, including Colorado, was headed for a long, and tinderbox-dry spring and summer, with the effects of a long-running drought becoming ever more apparent in the form of dwindling water supplies and destructive wildfires. Many officials feared a repeat of last year's disastrous wildfire season, when Colorado saw its most destructive wildfire on record strike the Colorado Springs area. And then winter finally arrived, in April, when the weather...
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