illegal timber Articles
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Legally REDD: Building readiness for REDD by supporting developing countries in the fight against illegal logging
If reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) is to work effectively, developing countries will need support to build the capacities required for enforcing their own laws and regulations. At present, timber production that violates the developing country’s own laws both acts as a barrier to REDD and costs these countries billions of dollars per year. This paper examines ...
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5 lessons for sustaining global forests
As the old adage suggests, it is important to see the forests for more than just the trees. While an estimated 500 million people depend directly on forests for their livelihoods, the entire world depends on them for food, water, clean air, and vital medicines. Forests also absorb carbon dioxide, making them critical to curbing climate change. Despite some encouraging anti-deforestation efforts ...
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Book Review: Illegal Logging: Law Enforcement, Livelihoods and the Timber Trade by Luca Tacconi (Editor)
Illegal Logging: Law Enforcement, Livelihoods and the Timber Trade, edited by Luca Tacconi. London, Earthscan, 2007. 288pp. ISBN-10: 1844073483; ISBN-13: 978-1844073481Keywords: book ...
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Leveling the Playing Field for Legal Timber in Brazil
Brazil is one of the most biologically diverse countries in the world. What is less known is that the country is the fourth largest industrial roundwood (timber left as logs, not sawn into planks) and wood pulp producer and ninth largest paper producer in the world. Brazil’s forest sector contributed 5 percent to the national gross domestic product in 2012. Brazil’s forests are not ...
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