Sentence examples for forestry firms from inspiring English sources

Conservationists believe beavers will help create a healthier and more varied habitat, but the proposals are likely to be opposed by local farmers, forestry firms and salmon fisheries.

And as in Brazil, property rights in the forests are often ill-defined, leading to violent conflicts between locals, migrants and forestry firms.

Though the science is evolving, it is clear that agribusinesses, forestry firms and others who can keep greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere could profit handsomely from the Kyoto deal.

This has kept domestic timber prices below world levels, providing forestry firms with an implicit subsidy estimated at over $2 billion a year, but also encouraging them to use logs inefficiently.

Considering that foreign banks lent $7 billion to Indonesian forestry firms before the Asian crisis of 1997, these worthy promises could have a real impact.Banks might also bear in mind that companies that are cavalier about their environmental responsibilities often prove lax when it comes to their fiduciary ones too.

Other similar "hybrid value-added chains" that combine business and social purposes are being developed between groups of forest-dwellers and forestry firms, and small farmers and irrigation companies.Meanwhile, Ashoka hopes that its relationship with UBS will flourish, and that prizes will soon be awarded across Latin America and Asia.

Sino-Forest, a big forestry firm listed in Toronto, is a case in point.

Concerns about fraud among Chinese companies listed in North America gained more traction on June 2nd, when a short-seller of that name accused Sino-Forest Corporation, a Toronto-listed forestry firm, of inflating its assets, among other things.

The 2003 decision of Finnish forestry firm UPM to locate a $1.2bn pulp mill on the banks of the Rio Uruguay, meanwhile, led to a prolonged diplomatic spat between neighbours Argentina and Uruguay over pollution claims.

So he spoke to Arauco, a major forestry firm that employs thousands of workers in Constitución, and to his friend and former colleague Alejandro Aravena, an architect at Elemental, which specialises in social housing projects.

The forestry industry, which accounts for around 8% of exports and is centred in the worst-hit regions, may be shut down for at least a month because of damage to factories and to transport links, says Charles Kimber of Arauco, a big forestry firm.