Synergies 2050

L'Express de Madagascar Le bois de rose continue de soulever des polémiques. Un rapport sur le commerce de bois de rose a été lancé à Nagoya, Japon. Il implique de hauts fonctionnaires malgaches. L'honnêteté de certains hauts fonctionnaires est remise en cause. Environmental investigation agency (EIA) et Global Witness ont procédé au lancement du rapport révélant les dessous du trafic de bois de rose malgache. C'était lors de la 10 e Conférence des parties à la Convention sur la biodiversité biologique à Nagoya, Japon, le 26 octobre 2010. Le rapport indique que la perpétuation du commerce illégal de bois de rose a été facilitée par l'implication de certaines autorités publiques malgaches, et la faiblesse de l'application des lois par le gouvernement de Transition du pays. D'Est en Ouest « Nous saluons les dernières indications du gouvernement malgache. Cependant, les expériences passées ont montré que de telles mesures sont souvent sapées par l'oct...

Bloomberg By  Hannah McNeish  -  Oct 28, 2010 Energizer Resources Inc. , the Canadian mineral-exploration company, will hold a second round of talks with a Chinese company about becoming a strategic partner in a vanadium project in Madagascar . Energizer expects to announce "in coming weeks" that its Green Giant project in the south of the Indian Ocean island has estimated resources of as much as 60 million metric tons of vanadium pentoxide,  Brent Nykoliation , vice president of business development at the Toronto-based company, said in a phone interview on Oct. 26. The company said this year the deposit had  estimated resources  of about 26 million tons of the metal, which is used to harden steel and to make batteries. Madagascar's oil and mineral wealth has attracted international investors including  Rio Tinto Plc , the world's third-biggest mining company, which owns a $1 billion ilmenite project in the southeast of the country. Canada's ...

UPI NAGOYA, Japan, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Chinese demand for exotic hardwood and political unrest in Madagascar drive illegal logging threatening that island nation's hardwood forests, a report says. The report by Global Witness and the Environment Investigation Agency was presented at the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan, the BBC reported. Investigators said an estimated 98 percent of illegally harvested hardwood from Madagascar ends up in China, much of it in luxury reproduction furniture that can fetch extraordinary prices, like $1 million for a bed made of exotic woods. The problem is made worse by Madagascar's chaotic political situation, split between factions of ex-President Marc Ravalomanana and the rival who ousted him in a 2009 coup, Andry Rajoelina. The illegal extraction of timber is flourishing amidst the political tug-of-war, the EIA/Global Witness report found. "The pre-existing problem of illegal logging was turned into a fl...