The importance of the domestic timber trade for FLEGT and REDD
ropenbos International would like to invite you to an informal networking event on 23 November 2011, to learn about the practical dilemmas of regulating domestic timber markets.
Interpol, U.N. to train police in REDD host countries
Interpol and the U.N.’s main environmental arm are join forces to help rainforest countries prevent land grabs motivated by carbon trading, and take action against illegal logging.
The REDD+ lobby would do well to learn the lessons of the Uganda land grab and build transparency, anti-corruption measures, conflict resolution into the system from the start, says Davyth Stewart from Global Witness
CURRENT GUIDANCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGALITY DEFINITIONS IN FLEGT VOLUNTARY PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS
This brief aims to guide countries in the development of their Legality Definition as part of a Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) process.
Illegal logging: from the rainforest to your dining room
BANGKOK, Thailand — Is your coffee table stamped “Made in Vietnam”?
If so, there’s a decent chance it was once a tree in the dwindling jungles of Laos, sawn down illegally by a timber syndicate and smuggled into Vietnam for processing.
Industrial timber use has provided timber revenue that has helped make timber supply and demand more sustainable in the leading timber producing regions of the world.
Multi-million-dollar mahogany problem – illegal exports rival legal exports
The 42% rise in illegal logging activities reported inside the Chiquibul Forest in western Belize may finally get Government’s attention now that a dollar figure of $15 million has been put to the amount of illegal exports of mahogany and cedar leaving the country for next-door Guatemala.
