This petition is about to raise awareness of the illegal logging to natural forest in our country. Illegal logging includes all illegal practices related to the harvesting, processing and trade in wood. Illegality occurs when laws are broken at any point along the supply chain. There are various causes of illegal logging but it is often a symptom of wider governance problems, such as inappropriate legislation, weak institutions, unclear forest tenure, corruption and a lack of law enforcement. In addition, simple economic considerations also contribute to illegal logging. Illegally harvested timber is usually cheaper than legal timber but also difficult to differentiate from legal timber. This makes legal timber and timber products less competitive. 

IMPACTS OF ILLEGAL LOGGING

Economic impacts
When trees are cut without the right permits and are smuggled abroad, governments lose out financially in several ways including lost revenue from taxes and duties and lost revenue due to corruption. 

Social impacts
The social impacts of illegal logging are diverse. Illegal logging undermines respect for the rule of law and is often associated with corruption. It can undermine the legitimate rights of concession-holders. It may also entail lack of recognition of the land and resource use rights of forest-dwelling communities resulting in negative impacts on the livelihoods of local people and possible local resource use and tenure conflicts. 

Environmental impacts
The environmental effects of illegal logging include forest degradation, the loss of biodiversity and the emission of greenhouse gases, which leads to global climate change.

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