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DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR


09/05/2013	Combating Illegal Logging: Interaction with WTO Rules Summary points: - Controlling international trade in illegal timber is an essential part of the ...	Duncan Brack, Chatham House
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16/04/2013	Illegal logging in the Russian Far East: global demand and taiga destruction Illegal logging of valuable temperate hardwoods has reached crisis proportions in the Russian Far East. ...	WWF-Russia
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01/04/2013	Transnational Organized Crime in East Asia and the Pacific: A Threat Assessment East Asia and the Pacific have experienced rapid economic and social changes during the past few decades ...	United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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07/02/2013	First Class Connections: Log Smuggling, Illegal Logging and Corruption in Mozambique Detailing the findings of EIA undercover investigations in Mozambique, and outlining timber trade data ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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20/09/2012	Illegal Trade in Environmentally Sensitive Goods Illegal trade in environmentally sensitive goods, such as threatened wildlife, timber, hazardous waste, ...	OECD
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19/09/2012	Forest Products Annual Market Review, 2011-2012 The UNECE/FAO Forest Products Annual Market Review, 2011-2012 provides general and statistical information ...	UNECE & FAO
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01/01/2012	Philippines: Scoping Baseline Information for Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade As part of EFI’s information collection role, a number of forest governance, markets and trade ...	EFI/TRAFFIC (Chen Hin Keong, James Hewitt and Thang Hooi Chew)
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01/01/2012	Singapore: Scoping Baseline Information for Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade As part of EFI’s information collection role, a number of forest governance, markets and trade ...	EFI/TRAFFIC (Chen Hin Keong, James Hewitt and Thang Hooi Chew)
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01/01/2012	Brunei Darussalam: Scoping Baseline Information for Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade As part of EFI’s information collection role, a number of forest governance, markets and trade ...	EFI/TRAFFIC (Chen Hin Keong, James Hewitt and Thang Hooi Chew)
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01/01/2012	Timor Leste: Scoping Baseline Information for Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade As part of EFI’s information collection role, a number of forest governance, markets and trade ...	EFI/TRAFFIC (Chen Hin Keong, James Hewitt and Thang Hooi Chew)
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01/08/2011	Myanmar: Overview of Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade As part of EFI’s information collection role, a number of forest governance, markets and trade ...	EFI/Forest Trends (Kevin Woods and Kerstin Canby)
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01/07/2011	Is China Unique? Exploring the behaviour of Chinese and European firms in the Cameroonian logging sector China’s growing presence in Africa’s extractive industries has been the subject of much debate ...	CIFOR (P O Cerutti, S Assembe Mvondo, L German, L Putzel)
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01/07/2011	Lao PDR: Overview of Forest Governance, Markets and Trade As part of EFI’s information collection role, a number of forest governance, markets and trade ...	EFI/Forest Trends (Keith Barney and Kerstin Canby)
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01/06/2011	Baseline Study 1, China: Overview of Forest Governance, Markets and Trade This report gives an overview of China's markets and trade of forest products and governance of ...	Forest Trends (S. Xiufang and K. Canby)
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01/06/2011	China: Overview of Forest Governance, Markets and Trade As part of EFI’s information collection role, a number of forest governance, markets and trade ...	EFI/Forest Trends (Sun Xiufang and Kerstin Canby)
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01/04/2011	Vietnam: Overview of Forest Governance and Trade As part of EFI’s information collection role, a number of forest governance, markets and trade ...	EFI/Forest Trends (To Xuan Phuc and Kerstin Canby)
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13/07/2010	Peru: Illegal Mahogany Logging Continues in Reserve for Uncontacted Tribes The authors of this paper say that widespread illegal mahogany logging continues inside Peru’s ...	Upper Amazon Conservancy
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01/01/2010	Trade and Deforestation: a Literature Review The amounts of greenhouse gasses emitted by deforestation are high. More than seven million hectares ...	WTO (World Trade Organisation)
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23/10/2009	Upside-down: Global Forestry Politics Reverses Directions of Ownership in Peru-China Timber Commodity Chains In the context of globalized trade, the impact of international markets for timber on tropical forests ...	Louis Putzel
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01/03/2008	China's Imports of Russian Timber Since the end of the 1990s, the Sino-Russian border regions have witnessed a dramatic, unprecedented ...	Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (Forest Conservation, Livelihoods and Rights Project, Occasional Paper No. 2)
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01/02/2008	Forest Products Trade between China and Africa: An Analysis of Imports and Exports Recent media coverage of China's efforts to secure access to natural resources in Africa suggests ...	Forest Trends (Kerstin Canby, James Hewitt, Luke Bailey, Eugenia Katsigris, Sun Xiufang)
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01/10/2007	No Questions Asked: The impact of US Market demand for illegal timber - and the potential for change A report by EIA on the global illegal logging crisis charging that the U.S.'s current imports policy ...	EIA
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01/10/2007	Why China prefers logs: Explaining the prevalence of unprocessed wood in China's timber imports In the past decade, China has become the number one importer of timber products in the world. Logs account ...	Forest Trends
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01/09/2007	Overview of Illegal Logging prepared for Australian Government A report prepared for the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry to provide an ...	Jaakko Poyry Consulting
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01/09/2007	China Wood Monthly Market Report September 2007 edition of China Wood Monthly, a newsletter offering all readers updated information on ...	China Wood International Inc./Beijing Xiangfei Sunshine Media & Ads Co.
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01/07/2007	Implications for the New Zealand Wood Products Sector of Trade Distortions Due to Illegal Logging This study determined the production, trade and price effects of international trade distortions due ...	New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
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12/05/2007	Study on the international transportation of tropical timber products The shipping process for tropical timber products is complex and poorly understood by many actors in ...	ITTO (J.J. Landrot and Anthony Lo)
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16/04/2007	United States International Trade Commission investigation into wood flooring and hardwood plywood: 'Competitive Conditions Affecting the U.S. Industries' The investigation Wood Flooring and Hardwood Plywood: Competitive Conditions Affecting the U.S. Industries, ...	United States International Trade Commission
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24/01/2007	Changing patterns of supply - illegal logging A paper prepared for the Chatham House meeting 'Forest governance and trade: exploring options' ...	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Sten Nilsson)
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24/01/2007	Outlook for the world economy A paper prepared for the Chatham House meeting 'Forest governance and trade: exploring options' ...	FCO (Catherine Barber)
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01/01/2007	Illegal Logging: Cut it out! This report attempts to estimate the volume of illegal wood entering the UK and to identify which sectors ...	WWF
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01/11/2006	UK Study: Measuring timber certification This report analyses the proportion of 2005 UK timber product imports that are certified, looking at ...	TimberTrends for TTF
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05/10/2006	Market effects of public procurement policies for wood and paper products in the UNECE region Report produced for a UNECE meeting on public procurement policies. The study was conducted by asking ...	UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists on Forest Products Markets and Marketing
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01/08/2006	Logging in the Wild East: China and the Forest Crisis in the Russian Far East Originally appearing in an abridged and modified format in the New Scientist under the title, 'Fell ...	Forest Trends (Charlie Pye-Smith)
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28/03/2006	Sharing the blame: global consumption and China's role in ancient forest destruction This report concludes that China's hunger for wood products is fueling ancient forest destruction, ...	Greenpeace International and Greenpeace China
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01/03/2006	China and the Global Market for Forest Products: Transforming Trade to Benefit Forests and Livelihoods The report looks at China's industry and timber trade and what this means for China, countries that ...	Forest Trends
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10/01/2006	WWF Response to 'An Independent Appraisal of the WWF "Failing the Forests" Report' WWF responds to the critique of their 'Failing the Forests' report by Forest Industries Intelligence ...	WWF
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01/01/2006	Planned Research: Regional Trade Patterns – West and Central Africa The aim of the study is to identify any potential trade distortions that might arise as a result of the ...	DFID
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01/01/2006	DFID's Forest Governance and Trade Programme 2006-2011 The UK Department for International Development's Forest Governance and Trade Programme is a five-year, ...	DFID
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25/11/2005	An Independent Appraisal of the WWF "Failing the Forests" Report This report by Forest Industries Intelligence questions the assumptions used by WWF to produce high estimates ...	Forest Industries Intelligence (Rupert Oliver)
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24/01/2005	Forest Industry Trends and Policy in Asia-Pacific Region The Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR) and Forest Trends have received a DFID grant to ...	CIFOR and Forest Trends
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01/01/2005	Why don't trade numbers add up? Discrepancies in tropical timber trade data highlight the continuing need to strengthen capacity for ...	ITTO Tropical Forest Update (Alberto Goetzi)
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01/12/2004	Tree Species Developments at CITES CoP13, Bangkok, October 2004 EIA briefing on ammendments regarding tree species made at the CITES 13th Conference of the Parties held ...	EIA
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01/12/2004	China's Wood Market, Trade and the Environment This report analyses China's domestic use and export of timber and explores the environmental impact ...	WWF International (Zhu Chunquan, Rodney Taylor and Feng Guoqiang)
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01/12/2004	The China forest products trade: overview of Asia-Pacific supplying countries, impacts and implications This paper - which formed part of the International Forestry Review's Special Issue in December ...	Forest Trends
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15/11/2004	UK Timber Trade Federation's Responsible Purchasing Policy The RPP is a tool to assist members with the implementation of the Environmental Code of Practice in ...	UK Timber Trade Federation
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08/11/2004	Illegal Logging and Global Wood Markets: the competitive impacts on the US Wood Products Industry The presence of illegally procured wood fiber affects the competitiveness of American and other producers ...	American Forest & Paper Association, Seneca Creek Associates and Wood Resources International
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01/11/2004	FLEGT and Trade: What will the impacts be? Assesses the potential impact of the EU FLEGT Action Plan on the trade in wood-based products between ...	Environmental Resouces Management for RIIA (Emily Fripp)
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01/08/2004	Forest Products Annual Market Review 2003-2004 The annual flagship publication of the UNECE/FAO integrated programme in the field of timber and forests, ...	UNECE Timber Branch
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01/01/2004	Meeting China's Demand for Forest Products: An overview of import trends, ports of entry and supplying countries, with emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region This paper is an attempt to bridge the gap in information about China's timber imports, a growing ...	Forest Trends, Chinese Center for Agricultural Policy and CIFOR (Xiufang Sun, Eugenia Katsigris and Andy White)
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01/08/2003	ITTO Timber Trade Data Study (UK) Analysis of international timber trade data relating to four key UK trade partners. Undertaken by the ...	Chatham House/RIIA (Jade Saunders)
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01/01/2003	Illegal logging in Northwestern Russia and Export of Russian Forest Products to Sweden Survey of illegal logging in Northwestern Russia, the origin of about 75% of Russian timber exports to ...	WWF
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01/06/2002	The Timber Footprint of the G8 and China: Making the Case for Green Procurement by Government Produced in an attempt to influence the G8 summit in 2002, this report contains an overview of trade ...	WWF (P. Toyne, C. O'Brien, R. Nelson)
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01/08/2001	European League Table of Imports of Illegal Tropical Timber Estimates figures for illegal imports of tropical timber to major importing countries of the EU. ...	Friends of the Earth
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01/06/2001	Import of Illegal Tropical Timber to the UK Estimates figures for illegal imports of tropical timber to the United Kingdom. ...	Friends of the Earth UK
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR


14/05/2013	The Death of "Sustainability" Can destroying a tropical rainforest be "sustainable"? ...	Glenn Hurowitz, for The Huffington Post
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10/05/2013	Palm Oil Planters Bid to End Deforestation Moratorium Palm oil planters have denounced a two-year forest-clearing moratorium that ends this month, saying it ...	Jakarta Globe
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02/05/2013	Extending the Success Against Illegal Logging to Palm Oil and Other Drivers of Deforestation The week before last I had the opportunity to go to London to participate in a workshop at Chatham House, ...	Doug Boucher for The Equation
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15/04/2013	Brazil may fine beef producers buying Amazon cattle Brazilian prosecutors are seeking to fine 26 beef producers a total of $282 million for buying cattle ...	Reuters (US)
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05/04/2013	Foreign demand for beef, soybeans adds pressure on Amazon forest Rising foreign demand for beef and soybeans will tempt Brazil to clear more of the Amazon rainforest, ...	Planet Ark
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05/04/2013	30% of Brazil's emissions from deforestation are export-driven 2.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions or 30 percent of the carbon associated with deforestation ...	Mongabay.com
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07/02/2013	Mozambique loses a fortune to illegal timber exports Corruption in world’s fourth poorest country aids illegal logging & timber smuggling to China. London ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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07/02/2013	Report: nearly half the timber from Mozambique to China is illegal Forty-eight percent of the timber making its way from Mozambique's forests to Chinese companies ...	Mongabay.com
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31/12/2012	The year in rainforests 2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of ...	Mongabay.com
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10/10/2012	Commerce official denies luxury wood ‘logs’ exported to China A Commerce Ministry official yesterday denied that Cambodia was exporting luxury wood logs to China, ...	The Cambodia Daily
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09/10/2012	Luxury wood trade to China revealed Thousands of cubic meters of luxury wood is being shipped from Cambodia to China each year, according ...	The Cambodia Daily
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30/04/2012	How to make stronger trade links between UK and Indonesia a reality Earlier this month, many of us were among the Indonesian business community which welcomed British Prime ...	Purwadi Soeprihanto, Executive Director, Association of Indonesian Forest Concessionaires (Letter)
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30/04/2012	Two-sided challenge: Paper industry strives to meet surging demand as well as complicated green certification compliance China and Asia-Pacific continue to be the focus of the world's pulp and paper industry as producers ...	Bangkok Post, Thailand
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05/03/2012	Cameroon government cracks down on illegal logging Yaounde, Cameroon – The government of Cameroon has intensified a crackdown on illegal loggers in ...	Reuters AlertNet
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07/02/2012	Call for tighter laws to halt illegal timber imports Australia must tighten laws to stop illegal timber imports and insist on stricter labelling of timber ...	The Canberra Times, Australia
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12/01/2012	Timber goods' market on target Ha Noi — The timber products market needs to promote local business and develop the export market ...	Viet Nam News
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16/12/2011	Environmental groups to Japan: stop importing illegally logged timber A coalition of environmental NGOs have called upon Japan to adopt stronger measures to block illicit ...	Mongabay.com
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06/12/2011	Pacific trade deal could help save species: U.S. Trade in illegally poached and harvested wildlife and wild plants could be curbed, possibly saving endangered ...	Reuters
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17/11/2011	China’s appetite for wood takes a heavy toll on forests More than half of the timber now shipped globally is destined for China. But unscrupulous Chinese companies ...	Yale Environment 360
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14/11/2011	No premium price for legal timber, only market access to EU, say officials Beijing, China - Wood products that are certified to have been made from legally sourced timber to meet ...	CIFOR Forests Blog
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01/11/2011	Mozambique: Timber companies lose their licences The National Directorate of Land and Forests, part of the Mozambican Ministry of Agriculture, has cancelled ...	The Zimbabwean
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18/10/2011	Why logging US national forestland to sell timber to China is a really bad idea Countries around the world are working harder than ever to save their forests. Brazil's 80% Amazon ...	The Huffington Post, US
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22/09/2011	Export of Malaysian timber-based furniture in 2011 affected by global economic slowdown Kuala Lumpur - The export of Malaysian timber-based furniture in 2011 is expected to remain at last year's ...	Bernama, Malaysia
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19/09/2011	Rosewood trees in crisis Asia's last real expanse of the highly-prized payoong (rosewood) tree in Thailand's Northeast ...	Bangkok Post, Thailand
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21/03/2011	'EU not supporting NGOs against palm oil' The European Union is not using environmental non-government organisations as a "fifth column" ...	Business Times, Malaysia
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23/11/2010	Developing countries often outsource deforestation, study finds In many developing countries, forest restoration at home has led to deforestation abroad, according to ...	EurekAlert!
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27/10/2010	Scientists blast greenwashing by front groups A group of prominent scientists has published an open ...	Mongabay.com
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20/10/2010	Corporations, conservation, and the green movement The image of rainforests being torn down by giant bulldozers, felled by chainsaw-wielding loggers, and ...	Mongabay.com
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19/10/2010	International timber groups urged to promote timber Timber trade federations meeting in Geneva were urged to make a joint effort to promote the use of legal ...	TTJ, The Timber Industry Magazine, UK
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22/09/2010	Malaysia clears air over environmental, human-trafficking issues at MPs summit Issues related to allegations of illegal logging, wildlife abuse, forest destruction and human trafficking ...	The Star Online, Malaysia
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21/09/2010	China-ASEAN timber product trade reached $9,380 million in the first half of 2010 Moscow - ASEAN countries are the major timber product trade partners for China. The value of the China-ASEAN ...	Lesprom, Russia
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16/09/2010	RI calls for world action to stop trade of rare species Indonesia called on parties to the UN biodiversity convention to stop receiving illegally traded endangered ...	The Jakarta Post
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02/09/2010	Special Committee to assist timber importers China Timber and Wood Products Circulation Association (CTWPCA) (former China Timber Circulation Association) ...	ITTO Market Report
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20/07/2010	Mahogany market in US threatening the lives of uncontacted natives in the Amazon Consumers in the US purchasing mahogany furniture may be unwittingly supporting illegal logging in a ...	Mongabay.com
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13/07/2010	US timber demand threatens uncontacted Peruvian tribe Illegal mahogany loggers are plundering uncontacted Indians’ land in the depths of the Peruvian ...	Survival International
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26/05/2010	U.S. farmers, timber producers call for an end to tropical deforestation Washington - Leading U.S. farm and forest products groups today called on Congress and the administration ...	PR Newswire
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14/05/2010	Possible WTO case over EU palm oil restrictions? At a recent meeting among Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil producers, Tan Sri Bernard Dompok - the Malaysian ...	ICTSD
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30/03/2010	Chinese plywood boss stopped from leaving Gabon Gabon authorities have barred the Chinese buyer of an former European plywood giant from leaving the ...	Terra Daily
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15/02/2010	Clarification on Gabon log ban At a recent meeting with Gabon’s Minister for Forests, executives of the country’s timber ...	ITTO (International Tropical Timber Organisation) Market Report
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15/02/2008	International Experts Convene to Discuss Illegal Logging An international forum has concluded that while some major initiatives are being developed to address ...	ForestNewsWire (Canada)
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02/02/2008	Asian market settles as forecast slowdown fails to take hold After a slight blip late last year, the Asian market has stabilised and shippers are resisting pressure ...	Timber Trades Journal (UK)
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01/01/2008	China: Short Supply of Timber Threatens Economic Security and It is Imperative to Establish Timber Security System China now has become a giant in the world's forest industry: The output of wood-based panels of ...	China Wood Monthly
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30/12/2007	Govt Increases Royalties For Timber Exports PNG - The Somare government has increased the royalty for log exports to enable landowners to receive ...	Pacific (Hawaii, USA)
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22/12/2007	China spurring illegal timber trade in Tanzania Washington, USA - Scientists have said that due to China's increasing demands for timber, illegal ...	Thaindian.com (Thailand)
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21/12/2007	China Spurring Illegal Timber Trade in Tanzania China's growing hunger for timber may wipe out much of Tanzania's commercially valuable forests ...	National Geographic (USA)
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16/11/2007	Investors embrace trees to tap China boom Hong Kong - Investors looking for new ways to cash in on China's strong economic growth are turning ...	Guardian (UK)
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31/10/2007	Pakistan to participate in world furniture exhibition in Dubai Pakistan - As timber trade grows a federal timber advisory council should be formulated to keep check ...	Daily Times (Pakistan)
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05/09/2007	Illegal logging costs NZ producers millions Illegal logging is costing New Zealand wood producers hundreds of millions of dollars in the global marketplace, ...	Beehive.govt.nz (New Zealand)
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03/09/2007	Lingui earnings jump on rising timber prices Malaysia - Miri-based Lingui Developments Bhd's full-year earnings jumped more than 50 times to ...	Business Times (Malaysia)
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19/06/2007	Shan: Rare Tree Trade Aggravates Deforestation During the past ten years Shanland has become the center of an illegal timber trade between Burma and ...	UNPO (Netherlands)
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16/06/2007	China's rise: Hope or doom for Africa? 'A win-win situation' is how the Chinese government describes its economic relations with Africa. ...	Sunday Vision (Uganda)
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09/05/2007	Western consumption 'causes forest shrinkage' Western consumption, and not China's timber trade, is to blame for the depletion of the world's ...	China Daily (China)
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09/05/2007	China must control its timber needs: report An international forest protection group says Europe and the United States must persuade China to bring ...	Radio Australia (Australia)
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30/04/2007	WWF release an informational DVD: 'The Global Forest & Trade Network: Solutions for Committed Companies' This 1-hour, 12-chapter video is an engaging way to learn about responsible forestry and trade in action. ...	WWF/GFTN
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18/04/2007	Trade panel to investigate illegal logging complaints Washington, US - The U.S. International Trade Commission has begun investigating logging practices by ...	International Herald Tribune (France)
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17/04/2007	ITC to investigate competitive conditions facing the U.S. wood flooring and hardwood plywood industries (Press Release) The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC or Commission) has launched an investigation ...	US International Trade Commission (USA)
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26/02/2007	DFID announce grants supporting forest governance and trade London, UK - DFID's Forest Governance and Trade Programme is a five-year, £24 million programme ...	Chatham House (UK)
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15/02/2007	Eksons posts RM17m profit in 3Q Malaysia - Eksons Corporation Bhd posted a net profit of RM17.17 million for the third quarter (3Q) ended ...	The Edge Daily (Malaysia)
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15/02/2007	TTF regards WWF report methodology as 'nonsense' The UK Timber Trade Federation (TTF) regarded the WWF report 'Cut it Out' as calculating figures ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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31/01/2007	UK criticised over illegal timber The UK is the world's third largest importer of illegal timber, according to a report from conservation ...	BBC (UK)
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30/01/2007	Indonesia: Export prices edge up amid storms and police control The storms and flooding that plagued Malaysia in late December also swept across neighbouring Indonesia. ...	IHB (Germany)
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21/01/2007	Indonesia, Malaysia floods drive timber prices Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Massive flooding in Malaysia and Indonesia, the world's top two exporters ...	Antara (Indonesia)
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19/01/2007	Timber prices shoot up Petaling Jaya, Malaysia - Prices of South-East Asian timber products have risen sharply across the board ...	Malaysia Star (Malaysia)
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19/01/2007	Get legal or lose markets Malaysian Timber Council, Netherlands Timber Trade Association and UK Timber Trade Federation Joint Press ...	TTF, MTC and VVNH
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08/01/2007	M'sia Aims To Boost Timber Product Exports To Europe Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Malaysia aims to export more timber products to the European countries, Plantation ...	Bernama (Malaysia)
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28/12/2006	Jaya Tiasa 2Q net profit surged 561% Malaysia - Timber market news from Malaysia "It said the current strength of the timber prices is ...	The Edge Daily (Malaysia)
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25/12/2006	The GFC and the Guyana Revenue Authority need to tackle the prima facie case of falsification of export records for logs Guyana - Opinion - "The GFC and the Guyana Revenue Authority need to tackle this prima facie case ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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19/12/2006	Free trade should be fair trade in debate over Chinese plywood Opinion - The guest viewpoint in the Dec. 14 Register-Guard regarding Sen. Ron Wyden's initiative ...	The Register-Guard (USA)
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19/12/2006	Liberia: Doors Cautiously Open to Foreign Investment Despite the lack of even such basic infrastructure as an electrical grid or a functional transportation ...	Resource Investor (USA)
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15/12/2006	TTAP seminar urges harmonized procurement policies Belgium - More than 50 leading wood products buyers, suppliers and policy makers met recently in Brussels ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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14/12/2006	Africa: Environmental Impact - More of the Same? (Excerpt) Today, China is Gabon's largest timber trading partner. In 2003 Gabon supplied 40 per ...	AllAfrica.com
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30/11/2006	Wyden: Examine Chinese logging US senator says growth might be based on illegal practices. ...	Salem Statesman Journal (USA)
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29/11/2006	Senator Wants Probe Into Chinese Logging Democratic senator Wednesday asked the Bush administration to investigate Chinese logging practices that ...	Forbes (USA)
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22/11/2006	MP slams envoy over 'interference' Forest Minister Patrick Pruaitch has criticised British High Commissioner David Gordon-Macleod, for 'direct ...	The National (Papua New Guinea)
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17/11/2006	International timber organisation cites financial difficulties The forty-first session of the International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC-41) was held from 6-11 November ...	Bridges Trade BioRes
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30/10/2006	Azmi allays fears over furniture exports to Europe Petaling Jaya: Malaysia has assured Britain that it is not exporting furniture made from illegally-logged ...	The Star (Malaysia)
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15/10/2006	UNECE/FAO hold policy forum on public procurement The UNECE and FAO held a policy forum on 'Public procurement policies (PPP) for wood and paper products ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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11/10/2006	Forestry industry big money earner: Sector earned K541m last year to rank second after mining, petroleum Papua New Guinea: Foreign exchange earnings from the country's forest industry alone reached US$173 ...	The National (Papua New Guinea)
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19/09/2006	Greenpeace investigation exposes Finland's illegal timber trade with Russia (Press Release) London, UK - A Greenpeace International report released today reveals how illegally logged ...	Greenpeace (UK)
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13/09/2006	Timber prices reach new highs Prices for Malaysian logs and plywood continue to rise following a structural shift in supply after Indonesia's ...	Malaysia Star (Malaysia)
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07/09/2006	Timber industry's export earnings to grow 3%-5% this year Malaysian Timber Council (MTC) expects export earnings of the timber industry to grow between 3% and ...	The Edge Daily (Malaysia)
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22/08/2006	Gambia: Salifou Sadio's Men Impose Embargo On Timber Trade Gambia - The Salifou Sadio faction of the southern Senegalese separatist MFDC movement has imposed an ...	AllAfrica.com
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18/08/2006	China does not menace global forest resources at all "China will deplete all the world's forest resources by 2031, when one of every two logs from ...	People's Daily Online (China)
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17/08/2006	Htoo Trading; only company with timber export license August 17, 2006- Ten trucks laden with timber on Wednesday night crossed the Sino-Burmese border from ...	Mizzima (Burma)
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16/08/2006	China denies destroying rainforests for timber China disputed charges that it is plundering the world's biodiverse rainforests to meet booming ...	mongabay.com (USA)
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08/08/2006	Government procurement and corporate social responsibility policies influencing UN Economic Commission for Europe region forest products markets in 2005/2006 The United Nations Economic and Social Council's Economic Commission for Europe issued the following ...	US Fed News (US)
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17/07/2006	Logging resumes in Liberia As former US president Bill Clinton arrives in Liberia to meet with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, ...	Mongabay.com (USA)
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17/07/2006	Pruaitch condemns reports by Greenpeace Papua New Guinea - Forest Minister Patrick Pruaitch has accused Greenpeace for denying PNG's economic ...	The National (Papua New Guinea)
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29/06/2006	'Untouched' tribes under threat from loggers Peru - They are the people who turned their back on the industrialised world, having decided long ago ...	New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
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29/06/2006	Unfair claims by NGOs disproved KUALA LUMPUR: Rapists, plunderers, grave robbers. These have been the accusations levelled at Malaysia ...	New Straits Times (Malaysia)
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14/06/2006	Forest industry provides jobs Papua New Guinea - In recent years, PNG Government ministers, public servants and members of the private ...	The National (Papua New Guinea)
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30/05/2006	Plywood hits eight-year high PETALING JAYA: Plywood prices hit an eight-year high this month even though prices are not as bullish ...	Malaysia Star
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26/05/2006	Pacific King blames state of market for shelving flotation: listing mired by ship arrests and illegal logging questions Log carrying specialist Pacific King Shipping has postponed its controversial initial public offering ...	Lloyd's List
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16/05/2006	Tassie pays price for its old growth Tasmanian woodchips are fighting a losing battle on world markets, with several major Japanese paper ...	The Mercury (Australia)
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10/05/2006	Shipping Firm Allegedly at Centre of Billion Dollar Trade in Stolen Logs Seeks Stock Exchange Listing EIA PRESS RELEASE: A major Asian shipping company, whose business has thrived on the back of a booming ...	EIA (UK)
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09/05/2006	Rainforest Alliance to Assess Code of Conduct of Spanish Timber Press Release - Spain - The Spanish Timber Importers' Association (Asociación Española ...	AEIM (Spain)
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08/05/2006	Chinese newspaper reports on the trade of illegally sourced wood products into China On May 8, 2006 the International Herald Leader, directly under China's state Xinhua News Agency, ...	Xinhua News Agency (China)
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01/05/2006	An early season and improved resource regulation jump-start wood sales "If there were 100 teak vendors three years ago, there are maybe 20 today now that Indonesia has ...	Reed Business Information (USA)
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09/04/2006	For Timber Trade, Many Routes Lead Through Singapore The article describes Singapore's role as a physical and financial hub in the regions illegal timber ...	Washington Post (USA)
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08/04/2006	Big Red hiding wood Urged on by Western demand for its products, China feels free to ravage Burmese forests for its own greedy ...	The Standard (Hong Kong)
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23/03/2006	China cites illegal Burma logging Beijing - China on Thursday admitted that some of its companies and individual citizens are involved ...	Bangkok Post (Thailand)
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12/03/2006	China trade helps keep Myanmar regime afloat RUILI, China - China has tossed an economic lifeline to the military regime of Myanmar, and the lifeline ...	Charleston Gazette (USA)
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08/03/2006	China must act on pledge to end illegal Burmese timber imports The Chinese government has finally pledged to act to address the rampant trade in illegal timber from ...	Global Witness (UK)
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27/02/2006	China able to be self-reliant in timber consumption: SFA BEIJING -- China will be able to stand on its own feet to meet domestic demand for timber, the State ...	Xinhua (China)
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22/02/2006	Favorable Balance of Forest Products Trade in 2005 China's trade in the main forest products achieved a favorable balance in 2005 for the first time ...	China Internet Information Center
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13/02/2006	Layoffs almost tripled in '05, plywood subsector hard hit Indonesia - Businesses in the hardest-hit forestry-based subsector, which terminated employment for about ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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25/01/2006	Timber Industry and UK Government Agree New Measures to Tackle Illegal Logging Uk - Press Release - On January 19 International Development Minister Gareth Thomas MP and the Chief ...	G8 Illegal Logging Ministerial & Industry Roundtable
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28/11/2005	Critique of WWF assessment of EU illegal wood imports In an effort to improve the level of debate on the issue of illegal logging, Forest Industries Intelligence ...	Forest Industries Intelligence Ltd (UK)
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23/11/2005	EU Destroying Major Forests of Poor Countries: WWF European Union (EU) countries are helping destroy major forests in poorer countries through massive imports ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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22/11/2005	Britain leads EU imports of wood logged illegally Many of Britain's furniture shops, garden centres and building sites are full of illegally logged ...	The Independent (UK)
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21/11/2005	Congo expels timber dealers ...	AllAfrica.com
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28/10/2005	PEFC calls for harmonisation of Government Timber Procurement Policies At its General Assembly, the Chairman Mr Henri Plauche-Gillon of the PEFC Council, the world mutual recognition ...	PEFC (Luxembourg)
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21/10/2005	Letter: Carbon emissions exported to China The UK Timber Trade Federation responds to press on illegal logging in the Independent. ...	The Independent (UK)
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04/10/2005	Forest and timber sector expresses concern for economic viability, illegal logging, and the public image of wood: Markets for forest products continue at record levels Geneva - The UNECE Timber Committee analyzed the current forest products market situation in 2005 and ...	UNECE
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21/09/2005	The good times roll for China's log importers as the economy surges When Sun Laijun set up a log-importing company in a smallish Chinese town bording Russian in 1998, it ...	Financial Times (UK)
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03/06/2005	Global Forest and Paper Summit: Bottom Line vs Conservation VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada - A clash of forest values is evident in Vancouver this week. Forest ...	Environment News Service
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27/05/2005	Ghana Timber Exporters to Lose EU Market The European Union (EU), which imports about 60% of Ghana timber yearly, has threatened not to purchase ...	AllAfrica.com
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16/05/2005	China and illegal merbau from Indonesia Press Release: China admitted it has imported and accommodated illegal Merbau from Indonesia. ...	Ministry of Forestry (Indonesia)
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05/05/2005	Illegal loggers make a fortune: American forestry companies attempt to fight back A new report published by Seneca Creek Associates and Wood Resources Institute, says that illegal logging ...	Mongabay.com
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05/04/2005	Malaysia – NZ industries condemn illegal logging New Zealand’s forest industry and the Malaysian Timber Council have issued a joint statement condemning ...	Scoop (New Zealand)
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02/04/2005	Dark side of the wood Asia's last great forests, food and shelter for the region's poorest people and an irreplaceable ...	Port Vila Presse (Vanuatu)
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19/03/2005	G8 'breakthrough' on illegal logging An agreement by the G8 group of industrialised countries to control illegal logging of forests by only ...	The Guardian (UK)
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16/03/2005	US Aims to Jeopardise Legal Action on Illegal Logging The United States was exposed yesterday as planning to jeopardise multi-lateral action to stop the trade ...	Common Dreams (USA)
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24/02/2005	JP Morgan Chase and BlueLinx Linked to Illegal Logging of Endangered Forests and Resulting Humanitarian Crisis Investigations by Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network have confirmed that JP Morgan Chase client ...	Ascribe (USA)
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23/02/2005	Limited supply partly blamed for illegal logging The high demand for timber on the growing national and international markets and limited supply keeps ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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18/11/2004	Anthony Forest Products CEO Named Head of Forest-Paper Assn. U.S. - Aubra H. Anthony, Jr., President and CEO of Anthony Forest Products Company, has been elected ...	Building Online
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08/11/2004	New study examines impact of illegal logging Washington DC, USA - A study released today quantifies the economic impact of illegally produced roundwood ...	American Forest and Paper Association
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06/10/2004	Greenpeace urges Singapore to crack down on illegal logging trade Singapore remains a major hub for the global trade in illegal timber, Greenpeace said Wednesday as it ...	Terra Daily
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PRESENTATIONS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR


06/07/2012	Legal timber flows in Asia - Russian Far East production and trade analysis	Katsunori Sasaki, Forest and Biodiversity Conservation Program, Friends of the Earth Japan
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10/02/2012	Responsible Asia forestry and trade	Jack Hurd, The Nature Conservancy
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10/02/2012	Export market challenges for Indian timber products	B H Patel, Capexil
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13/10/2011	“If you don't ask, you won't get.” Trends in legislation, the fight against climate change, and their impact on trade in tropical timber	James Hewitt, Independent Consultant
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15/06/2011	Tropical timber and traceability	James Hewitt, Independent Consultant
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27/01/2011	Role of the shipping sector	Cecilia Müller, Maersk
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27/01/2011	International public-private partnerships for strengthening the valus chain of sustainable tropical timber	Petra Hamers, The Amazon Alternative
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20/01/2010	Analysis and Perspectives of the Peruvian Forest Sector 2008-2009	Lucila Pautrat, Institute of Public Policies, Regulations and Sustainable Development
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23/06/2009	DFID's Forest Governance and Trade Programme - progress update	John Hudson, Department for International Development (DFID) UK
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01/10/2008	Russia in the context of global trade in wood-based products and illegal timber	James Hewitt
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01/11/2007	Introduction to certification and the European market	UK Timber Trade Federation (Hugh Blackett)
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01/11/2007	Sino-Russia Timber Trade & Cooperation in Forestry	China Wood International, Inc. (Hongfan Li)
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01/11/2007	China-Africa Forest Product Trade: An overview	Forest Trends (Sun Xiufang)
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09/07/2007	China and global markets - IISD-IIED-IDDRI study for China Ministry of Commerce	IIED (Steve Bass)
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09/07/2007	Competitiveness in the US flooring and plywood markets	United States International Trade Commission (David L Ingersoll)
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27/04/2007	Forest Law Enforcement and Governance: An IUCN view	IUCN (Dong Ke)
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27/04/2007	How illegal timber is coming into China: Greenpeace findings and recommendations - Case of merbau	Greenpeace China (Tamara Stark and Liu Bing)
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27/04/2007	An update on trade related work of Forest Trends/RRI	Forest Trends (Xiufang Sun)
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26/04/2007	Russian softwood in China: Commodity chain study	Beijing Forestry University (Baodong Cheng and Weiming Song)
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26/01/2007	China and the global market for forest products: Look at Africa and Russia	Forest Trends (Kerstin Canby)
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25/01/2007	The economics of illegal logging and associated trade	OECD (Richard Doornbosch)
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25/01/2007	Illegal logging and related trade: measuring the global response	Global Forest Indicators Project (Sam Lawson, Independent Consultant)
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24/01/2007	Changing patterns of supply - illegal logging	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Sten Nilsson)
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20/09/2006	China and the Global Forest Products Trade: Strengthening production and policy	DFID (John Hudson)
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20/09/2006	How cost competitive is wood pulp production in South China?	CIFOR (Christopher Barr and Christian Cossalter)
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20/09/2006	China: Modeling trade scenarios for forest and forest products	University of British Columbia (Steven Northway and Gary Bull)
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21/07/2006	Which ten bilateral timber flows have most salience to future international effort against illegal timber?	James Hewitt, Independent Consultant
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03/04/2006	UK trade initiatives	UK Timber Trade Federation (Andy Roby)
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31/01/2006	FLEGT: Additional legal options Netherlands study	Netherlands Ministry of Justice (Nicholas Franssen)
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31/01/2006	Assessment of additional measures to exclude illegal timber from the EU market: Analysis of applicable legislation in Estonia	NEPCON (Mirjam Marastu)
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31/01/2006	Application of the Spanish law to FLEGT	José María Solano López
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20/01/2006	The experience of the Spanish Association of Timber Importers (AEIM)	AEIM (Alberto Romero)
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19/01/2006	Illegal Logging and Related Trade: The global response and indicators of change	Fripp, Emily (Independent Consultant)
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EVENTS

DATE	TITLE


Monday 14th April 2008	EU-China Timber Trade Roadshow The UK Timber Trade Federation (TTF) together with the Dutch Timber Trade Association (VVNH) have joined ...
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Thursday 14th February 2008	The 2nd Potomac Forum on Illegal Logging and Associated Trade The objective of this meeting is for participants to develop a better understanding of the issues, different ...
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Monday 9th July 2007	Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 10 The tenth in a series of meetings coordinated by Chatham House and funded by DFID, the update was held ...
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Thursday 26th April 2007	China and the Global Forest Products Trade First of a series of 6-monthly 'Chatham House' Chinese stakeholder consultations in Beijing. ...
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Thursday 8th March 2007	Forest Trends 1st Update Meeting on Initiatives to Address Illegal Logging and Associated Trade The objective of this meeting is for participants to develop a better understanding of the different ...
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Thursday 25th January 2007	Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 9 The ninth in a regular series of meetings coordinated by Chatham House and funded by DFID. The meeting ...
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Monday 8th January 2007	19th Round Table on Sustainable Development The Round Table on Sustainable Development at the OECD met on the 8 and 9 January to discuss the economic ...
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Thursday 20th July 2006	Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 8 The eighth in a regular series of meetings coordinated by Chatham House and funded by DFID. The meeting ...
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Wednesday 27th July 2005	Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 6 The sixth in a regular series of meetings coordinated by Chatham House and funded by DFID. The meeting ...
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Tuesday 17th May 2005	Trade Forums - 'Changing International Markets for Timber: What African Producers can do' The UK Timber Trade Federation (TTF) and Inter-African Forest Industries Association (IFIA) have joined ...
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Thursday 2nd December 2004	Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 5 The fifth in a series of policy update meetings hosted by Chatham House and funded by DFID. The meeting ...
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Monday 18th October 2004	Increasing International Enforcement Cooperation to Control Transboundary Trade in Illegally Produced Logs and Timber On the 18 and 19 October INECE (International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement) held ...
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Thursday 29th July 2004	Discussion meeting: Money laundering and illegal logging Following the discussion meeting 'Capturing the Profits of Illegal Logging' in March 2004 on ...
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Monday 1st December 2003	UK Government Forest Law Enforcement and Governance Programme Assessment The meeting was held to gather views on whether the original aims and elements of the UK Government FLEG ...
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Monday 9th June 2003	Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 2 Second in the regular series of meetings hosted by Chatham House and funded by DFID. Discussion covered ...
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LINKS

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BRIDGES Trade BioRes	BRIDGES Trade BioRes - Trade and Biological Resources News Digest is produced by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in collaboration with IUCN - The World Conservation Union, and its Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP), in an effort to complement the activities of both organisations on the increasingly important intersection of trade and biological resources.	Broken link
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European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN)	Established in 1991, the European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN) is a forum for communication between European organisations, researchers, EU institutions and others concerned with sub-tropical forest research. The link takes you to the ETFRN topics page, including timber trade, international forest policy, conflict and forest peoples. ETFRN produces a quarterly newsletter, which you can find here.	Broken link
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GlobalTimber.org.uk	This website provides information (charts and commentary) about international trade in timber products. Its focus is on tropical timber, particularly that originating in Africa and East Asia, also that which is probably illegal. Contains detailed information about national markets for particular exporting countries in the info section.	Broken link
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International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO)	Member states represent 95% of world trade in tropical timber. Currently undertaking a series of studies on illegal logging and on timber trade statistics. Volume 12 No. 1 of the ITTO newsletter, Tropical Forest Update, focused on illegal logging and forest crime. Link here to see archived meetings of ITTO's governing body, the ITTC.	Broken link
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UK Department for International Development (DFID)	The lead UK government department for international forestry issues. DFID's Forest Governance and Trade Programme is a five-year, £24 million programme that aims to tackle the problems of illegal logging in developing countries and the associated international trade in illegally logged timber. Its main area of activity is supporting reforms in countries that enter voluntary partnership agreements (VPAs) with the European Union under the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (EU FLEGT) Action Plan. Click here for a story on a DfID funded project to protect the forest in Aceh, Indonesia.	Broken link
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WWF	A major environmental NGO: this is the website for WWF international. The link takes you to their page on transforming markets, or link here to the WWF government barometer which rates EU governments commitments and actions on illegal logging and trade.	Broken link
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WWF Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN)	The GFTN - a WWF-led partnership - links more than 360 companies, communities, NGOs, and entrepreneurs in more than 30 countries around the world. The goal is to create a new market for environmentally responsible forest products. Since 1991, market-driven demands from GFTN participants have increased the economic incentives for responsible forest management. This is helping to ensure that millions of acres of forests are independently and credibly certified, a guarantee that the forests are well managed and that their products come from legal and sustainable timber harvests. Click here for GFTN's Guide to Legal and Responsible Sourcing, which includes details on national legality frameworks and guides to legal documentation.	Broken link
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