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INTERPOL launches Project LEAF to combat illegal logging worldwide
Description: INTERPOL has announced the launch of Project LEAF (Law Enforcement Assistance for Forests), an initiative dedicated to combating all aspects of forestry crime, including illegal logging and timber trafficking. Project LEAF, a partnership between INTERPOL and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with financial support from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), is an innovative, international response representing the first time that organizations of this stature have joined forces against this organized, sophisticated and transnational crime. [Source: INTERPOL]
URL: http://www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News-media-releases/2012/N20120605Bis
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Source: INTERPOL
Publish Date: 6/5/2012
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