DAILY EXPRESS NEWS Motive of the orang utan claim: Najib Kuala Lumpur: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak Monday said certain groups in the West are bent on hurting Malaysia's oil palm industry when they accuse the country of killing thousands of orang-utan when conducting land clearing for oil palm cultivation. DAILY EXPRESS NEWS Motive of the orang utan claim: Najib Kuala Lumpur: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak Monday said certain groups in the West are bent on hurting Malaysia's oil palm industry...

Tate says the Americans are claiming the surge mechanism in the agreement, designed to increase the border tax paid by Canadian lumber exporters, is not working. Tate says American politicians are taking the heat from lumber producers on their side of the border who are being forced to shut down because of the drop in the number of housing starts and drop in the price of lumber. Once they bring the softwood lumber agreement in front of committees to reexamine it, what else are they going...

Popular trails and nature hikes that attract day visitors to the area and connect the lake to hikers in the Olympic National Forest skirt the edges of the blowdown. We re cut off because those trails are blocked, and it can be up to two years before the Forest Service gets the money to get the trails back into shape. On top of the roadless designation, the Forest Service has declared the area a riparian reserve and a critical habitat for northern spotted owl and marbled murrelet. Even...

and Canadian officials will meet this week in a bid to salvage a deal on softwood lumber trade that is showing signs of fraying just six months after it was signed, a U. The meeting in Ottawa comes almost three weeks after Washington requested consultations over what it considers violations of the deal, which was hailed last fall as an end to decades of lawsuits over bilateral softwood lumber trade. Behind Washington's complaints are programs in several Canadian provinces to assist the...

VANCOUVER -- A trio of market shocks is set to tip the perception of global wood supply from one of abundance to relative scarcity, a forestry industry conference was told yesterday. But the reality will almost certainly be worse, he said, with supply falling off more quickly than had been previously assumed. Russia, meanwhile, may also shake up global wood supply with its February move that it plans to dramatically raise its export tax on raw logs over the next years to encourage a...