DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Over 55% of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is covered in tropical forest. That represents over 133 million ha, or 52% of the Congo Basin rainforest; only Brazil has a larger area of tropical forest. DRCs forests are vital for the livelihoods of 40 million people in the country, and for the worlds climate.

The country has been exposed to industrial logging since the 1920s, which gradually developed until the majority of DRCs forests were under large-scale logging concessions. The conflict that began in 1990 saw much of the industry disrupted, however, the companies returned, much to the concern of a number of NGOs, who pointed to the lack of benefits to either local communities or the environment from the logging activities.

The DRC government launched a priority reform agenda in 2002, encapsulated in a new Forest Code. The Code enables forest lands to be designated for particular uses, encourages public participation in decision-making, maintains traditional user rights, introduces a fairer allocation process, aims for the proceeds of forest exploitation to be shared more equitably and promotes sustainable forest management through the use of management plans.

However, illegal logging remains a significant concern within DRC. Many logging companies obtained contracts during the war or in the period of the subsequent interim government, which was plagued by corruption. A recent government working group has found that only 29 out of 156 of these deals are operating to minimum standards, and there have also been allegations of tax evasion. Mining and agriculture also pose serious threats to the forest. 500,000 cubic metres of timber are officially harvested each year, however, the FAO estimates that unofficial logging more than doubles that total.

From 1990 to 2005, forest cover in DRC fell by nearly 3%. The UN estimates that at the present rate of exploitation as much as two-thirds of the Congo Basin forest will disappear by 2040.

There are a number of initiatives aimed at combating the destruction of the forests. For example, the Congo Basin Forest Fund, funded by the UK and Norway, has as one of its first aims to establish close satellite surveillance of the forest by 2010, enabling real-time monitoring. Other projects include local communities in mapping the forests to enable greater protection of the environment and livelihoods, and funding by the World Bank to step up forestry reform efforts.

DOCUMENTS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
29/07/2010	Forest Reform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Leaving People Out On the 26 January 2010, villagers from the province of Bandundu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...	Greenpeace
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01/03/2010	Stop Forest Crime! Impunity still prevails in logging operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo Greenpeace believe that forest sector reform in the DRC, home to the second largest rainforest in the ...	Greenpeace
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11/12/2009	Voices from the Congo Basin: Incorporating the Perspectives of Local Stakeholders for Improved REDD Design The scarcity of information on local and indigenous perspectives on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation ...	WRI
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03/12/2009	The World Bank and the Forest Sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo: REDD Future or Greenwash? This is an open letter send by Greenpeace, Global Witness, and the Rainforest Foundation to Michael Wormser, ...	The Rainforest Foundation, Global Witness & Greenpeace
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01/09/2009	Statistics 2008 Timber trade statistics from a number of Central and West African countries for 2007-2008. ...	ATIBT (Association Technique Internationale des Bois Tropicaux)
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01/07/2009	Multi-stakeholder Design of Forest Governance and Accountability Arrangements in Equator Province, Democratic Republic of Congo The IUCN project “Strengthening Voices for Better Choices” (SVBC) is piloting improved forest ...	IUCN & Wageningen University & Research Centre, Netherlands (Dieuwke Klaver)
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01/06/2009	Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Forestry Governance in the DRC This case study on forestry governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) forms part of a three-year ...	Mari-Lise du Preez & Kathryn Sturman (Governance of Africa's Resources Programme)
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29/05/2009	Tropical Forest Tenure Assessment: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities The goal of this report is to present and analyse the state of forest tenure in much of the world's ...	Rights and Resources Initiative / International Tropical Timber Organisation
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01/05/2009	Land Rights and the Forest Peoples of Africa: Historical, Legal and Anthropological Perspectives A series of five country studies, plus a broad overview, examining indigenous peoples' land rights ...	Rights & Resources Initiative (RRI)
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19/11/2008	Trading for Peace Project Newsletter While militarised and corrupt elites do exploit the trade in natural resources, including timber, sanctions ...	UK Department for International Development
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01/10/2008	Promoting China's Engagement in Africa: Chinese forest delegation study tour to West and Central Africa The overall intent of the 2008 study tour was to engage China, as a major consumer of African forest ...	IUCN
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01/10/2008	Connecting community forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo with international markets: Some initial ideas Includes a section looking at where the REDD (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degredation) ...	Forests Monitor
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01/08/2008	Corruption and Governance in the DRC Analysis of the 2003-06 transition period in DRC; the paper assesses the strengths and weaknesses of ...	Institute for Security Studies, South Africa (Muzong Kodi)
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30/07/2008	Conning the Congo This new investigative report allegedly exposes another hidden aspect of export driven resource extraction ...	Greenpeace
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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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01/12/2007	DRC's forests: towards satisfactory management and governance standards? Mission findings and policy recommendations from a feasibility study for Independent Forest Monitoring ...	Global Witness
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31/08/2007	Final Report of World Bank Inspection Panel Investigation of Forest Sector Operations in DRC The present Report presents the findings of the Inspection Panel in response to a Request for Inspection ...	World Bank
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01/08/2007	Information note: Feasibility study for independent forest monitoring in the Democratic Republic of Congo Global Witness has been contracted by the World Bank to conduct a three month Feasibility Study between ...	Global Witness
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10/04/2007	Carving up the Congo (Executive Summary) Report arguing that international logging companies are causing social chaos and wreaking environmental ...	Greenpeace (UK)
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10/04/2007	Carving up the Congo (Full Report) Report arguing that international logging companies are causing social chaos and wreaking environmenatl ...	Greenpeace (UK)
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01/02/2007	Concessions to poverty: The environmental, social and economic impacts of industrial logging concessions in Africa's rainforests This report addresses the issues surrounding the sustainability and the impacts of the industrial logging ...	Forests Monitor
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01/12/2006	Arborvitae Issue 32: The IUCN/WWF forest conservation newsletter The focus of this issue of arbor vitae is illegal logging and forest governance. It contains informative ...	IUCN and WWF
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01/06/2006	Forest Governance in DRC: Recommendations for a VPA One of a series looking at forest governance from an NGO perspective. Other reports in the same series ...	FERN
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25/05/2006	Status of Tropical Forest Management 2005 Is forest management improving in the tropics? This report sets out to answer that question. It provides ...	ITTO
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22/11/2005	Failing the Forests: Europe's Illegal Timber Trade Based on trade data for six key timber-producing regions – the Amazon Basin, the Baltic States, ...	WWF
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01/03/2005	Letter on Liberia and the DRC: Global Witness to the UN Security Council Open Letter to the UN Security Council, regarding conflict resources and peacekeeping in Liberia and ...	Global Witness
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01/10/2004	DRC Reports: Recommendations for the Independent Observer of the review of old forest licenses REM was included on a restricted call for tender launched by the Central Coordination Office (BCeCo) ...	REM
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01/06/2004	Same Old Story A background study on control of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how thiis ...	Global Witness
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01/05/2004	Business role in the Congo Politicians and donor agencies are focusing on the Congo Basin. Difficult questions are being raised ...	Timber Trades Journal (Rupert Oliver)
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01/04/2004	Lessons Learnt on Sustainable Forest Management in Africa: Study on Forest Administration and Related Institutional Arrangements This study is a component of a wider initiative jointly undertaken by the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture ...	Owino, Prof. F (Forest Resources International, Kenya) & Ndinga, Dr A (Dakar Fann, Senegal)
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01/01/2004	Conflict Timber: Dimensions of the Problem in Asia and Africa As a response to the growing recognition of the connection between forests, logging and conflict, this ...	ARD Inc. for USAID (Jamie Thomson and Ramzy Kanaan)
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01/06/2003	Legal Origin of Timber as a Step Towards Sustainable Forest Management in Africa Argues that although voluntary partnerships may produce some positive outcomes at the local level, real ...	SGS for the WWF/World Bank Alliance
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17/11/2002	Role of the African Timber Trade in the Creation of Conflict and Poverty - A Call for Action This document considers the negative effects of the tropical timber trade in the DRC and Mano River Region ...	Greenpeace (Filip Verbelen)
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30/10/2002	Forest Law Assessment in Selected African Countries This report has been produced as one of two major outputs of work commissioned by the World Bank/WWF ...	SGS for the WWF/World Bank Alliance
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01/02/2002	Branching Out This report focuses on Zimbabwe's logging ambitions in the DRC – potentially the world's ...	Global Witness
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
11/03/2010	Gorilla fortunes boosted by International Year in their honour, UN reports The world’s endangered great apes received a boost from the 2009 United Nations Year of the Gorillas, ...	UN News Centre
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08/02/2010	Helveta announces contract to deploy CI World as the nationwide forest information management system in the Democratic Republic of Congo Oxford, England - Helveta Ltd., the leading provider of asset management and supply chain monitoring ...	Market Watch
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27/12/2009	Rainforest conservation: a year in review 2009 may prove to be an important turning point for tropical forests. ...	Mongabay.com
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17/12/2009	Congo villagers look to Copenhagen to save forest As world leaders haggle over a plan to fight global warming, tribes in Congo's rainforest have armed ...	World Bulletin
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04/12/2009	Climate change highlighted at alternative Nobel awards ceremony Stockholm - Climate change and illegal rainforest logging were highlighted Friday at an awards gala in ...	Monsters & Critics
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29/10/2009	Africa: African governments and outside powers must be accountable On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action still falls ...	allAfrica.com
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28/07/2009	DR Congo needs clear logging policies: Greenpeace Kinshasa - Greenpeace has urged authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to clarify reforms bringing ...	AFP
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23/07/2009	The need to check deforestation in West Africa Achieving long-term development in West Africa requires much more than just exploiting the region's ...	Business Day, Nigeria
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13/07/2009	Going green with REDD To combat the effects of climate change by reducing carbon emissions, the United Nations Collaborative ...	The East African, Kenya
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02/07/2009	REDD readiness plans for Panama, Guyana approved but rejected for Indonesia The World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) has approved REDD readiness plans (R-Plans) ...	Mongabay.com
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28/05/2009	Indigenous people, forest communities in Africa control less than 2% of forest land Less than 2 percent of Africas tropical forests are under community control, hindering efforts to slow ...	Mongabay.com
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25/05/2009	Slow forest tenure reform threatens Africa's action against climate change A new report released today at a major global forestry conference in Cameroon has found that deforestation ...	Africa Science News Service (Kenya)
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20/05/2009	Responsible forest management in Congo Basin has bright future following latest certification milestone Yaounde, Cameroon - The Congo Basin is now home to over four million hectares (ha) of sustainably managed ...	WWF
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24/04/2009	Pygmy lives neglected in forests of the troubled Congo The provinces of Northern and Southern Kivu are amongst those most affected by deforestation and soil ...	peopleandplanet.net
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16/04/2009	Africa: countries funded to plan forest protection Five developing countries have received US$18 million in funding to plan how to implement a proposed ...	allAfrica.com
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01/04/2009	$18 million approved under UN-REDD Programme Funds will back forestry programmes combating climate change and boosting local livelihoods ...	FAO
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19/03/2009	REDD funds approved for pilot nations UN agencies have released initial funding to five pilot countries to prepare avoided deforestation action ...	Carbon Positive
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31/01/2009	DRC cancels nearly 60% of timber contracts After a review of 156 logging deals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the government has cancelled ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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30/01/2009	Congo set to cancel logging concessions Last week, at long last, the legal review of timber concessions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...	Greenpeace USA (USA)
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19/01/2009	Congo set to halt most logging Kinshasa - Logging must stop on nearly 13 million hectares of forest in Democratic Republic of Congo ...	Reuters
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10/10/2008	A Dent In Congo Corruption... Maybe Interesting'and maybe even positive'news this week out of the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...	The Plank on TNR.com (USA)
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08/10/2008	Carry On up the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo ' Illegal logging is rapidly destroying the Earth's stores ...	Greenpeace International (Netherlands)
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08/10/2008	DR Congo to cancel two-thirds of logging contracts due to corruption Democratic Republic of Congo will cancel more than two-thirds of its logging contracts due to under a ...	Mongabay.com (USA)
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07/08/2008	Report says DRC should cancel most logging deals The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) should cancel more than three quarters of its logging deals for ...	Mail & Guardian online (South Africa)
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31/07/2008	Congo Launches Review of Logging Contracts Kinshasa, DRC - Congo, home to the world's second largest tropical forest, launched a review of ...	Planet Ark (Australia)
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31/07/2008	Congo Basin sees progress on REDD preparations As discussed at the UNFCCC workshop on methodologies to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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31/07/2008	Congo Basin passes 1 million ha milestone in swing to sustainable forestry Yaound, Cameroon - WWF today announced that more than one million hectares of Congo Basin forests have ...	WWF International (Switzerland)
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30/07/2008	Conning the Congo Just as the need to save the worlds forests for climate protection is becoming widely recognised, we ...	Greenpeace International (Netherlands)
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30/07/2008	Greenpeace continues to make groundless allegations against Danzer Group Baar, Switzerland - The recent allegations made by Greenpeace that Danzer Group evaded paying taxes in ...	Danzer Group (Switzerland)
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24/07/2008	14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests Fourteen countries have been selected by the World Bank to receive funds for conserving their tropical ...	Mongabay.com
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02/07/2008	Congo reforestation fund urged to ensure local leaders get cash Kinshasa, DRC - Former Canadian prime minister Paul Martin must worry about the flow of "every single ...	Toronto Star (Canada)
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18/06/2008	Ex-PM takes Walden Pond to the Congo Paul Martin has a new constituency. This one is twice the size of France and home to 50 million people ...	Globe and Mail (Canada)
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17/06/2008	Spy satellite will monitor illegal logging across six African countries A spy satellite is to be trained on the vast rainforests of central Africa as part of a British project ...	Independent (UK)
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09/04/2008	Hundreds of villagers take part in huge mapping operation to save DRC rainforests (Press Release) One of the biggest community-based rainforest mapping projects in Africa will begin today ...	Rainforest Foundation (UK)
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15/01/2008	World Bank Board Discusses Inspection Panel Investigation of Forest Sector Operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Press Release) Washington, USA The World Bank independent Inspection Panel said that it appreciates ...	World Bank (USA)
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14/01/2008	W.Bank to Increase Involvement With DRC Forestry Washington, USA - The World Bank said on Thursday it would increase its involvement in the Democratic ...	Planet Ark (Australia)
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10/01/2008	World Bank aims to scale up in Congo forest sector Washington, USA - The World Bank said on Thursday it would scale up its involvement in reorganizing Congo's ...	Guardian Unlimited (UK)
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10/12/2007	World Bank ditches shares in Congo-trashing company (Greenpeace Blog) UK - There have been some great developments around our Congo rainforest campaign, ...	Greenpeace (UK)
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07/12/2007	World Bank admits Congo omissions The World Bank has acknowledged a series of "omissions" in reforms it supported to promote ...	Financial Times (UK)
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22/09/2007	Sold down the river Democratic Republic of Congo - Bags of sugar and a few bars of soap - with these the rights to one of ...	The Guardian (UK)
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30/08/2007	How the World Bank and HSBC are investing in deforestation DRC Back in April, at the World Bank's spring meeting, there was much talk about the plight of ...	Greenpeace
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29/08/2007	World Bank Group's role in illegal African rainforest destruction is exposed: company implicated in Congo forest plunder posts rising profits Washington, USA - The World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) is financing a Singapore-based ...	Common Dreams (USA)
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08/06/2007	Loggers threaten a third of rainforests in Congo Basin The rainforests of central Africa are being systematically plundered for their hardwood timber trees, ...	The Independent (UK)
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24/05/2007	Action in Salerno to defend Congolese forests Salerno, Italy - In Salerno harbour Greenpeace activists yesterday boarded the ship Andreas coming from ...	Greenpeace (Italy)
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15/04/2007	DR Congo cancels illegal logging contracts The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has recently cancelled 21 illegal logging rights, ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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14/04/2007	Greenpeace: Germans involved in illegal logging in DR Congo Greenpeace has called for urgent action to prevent illegal logging in DR Congo. The environmental group ...	Deutsche Welle (Germany)
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10/04/2007	What a carve up! How the timber industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo is out of control As we revealed last ...	Greenpeace (UK)
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09/04/2007	Congo cancels logging contracts, calls for sustainable forest management The new government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) cancelled more than 20 illegally-granted ...	Mongabay.com (USA)
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19/03/2007	A rainforest in danger In 2004, more than 100 environment, development, and human rights groups in the Democratic Republic of ...	Guardian Unlimited (UK)
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11/03/2007	Congo pledges to save forests DRC - At an International Conference on Sustainable Management of Forests held in Brussels on February ...	Africa News (Netherlands)
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09/03/2007	Congo joins regional effort to save forests The newly-elected government of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) has presented wide-ranging efforts and plans to ...	afrol News (Norway)
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28/02/2007	Illegal Loggers Mutilating Congolese Forests Delegates from the Congolese government, donor community and civil society will meet next week in Brussels ...	Environment News Service (USA)
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27/02/2007	Greenpeace condemns illegal logging in Congo-Kinshasa (Press Release) Environment watchdog, Greenpeace, Monday in Paris, called for an end to "illegal ...	MONUC.org (Democratic Republic of Congo)
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24/02/2007	Greenpeace's report shows ongoing illegal logging in DR Congo Greenpeace released evidence Friday of widespread illegal logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...	Africa Science News Service (Kenya)
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14/02/2007	Cameroun: Forest Concession Monitoring Project Takes Root The process for the implementation of the Forest concession Monitoring System in Central Africa (FORCOMS) ...	AllAfrica.com
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30/01/2007	UN experts seek tougher rules on Congo resources United Nations - U.N. experts urged the Security Council on Tuesday to step up international efforts ...	Reuters (UK)
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18/01/2007	Pay back time for uncle Bob Harare, Zimbabwe - The Zanu (PF) government is finalizing a complex deal with the newly sworn-in Democratic ...	The Zimbabwean (Zimbabwe)
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02/10/2006	The scramble for Africa What is the future for resource-rich post-conflict African nations? ...	The Statesman (Ghana)
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23/06/2006	Conservation efforts in Congo Basin appear effective A new assessment of Africa's massive Congo Basin rain forest finds that it is less degraded than ...	Voice of America (USA)
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01/02/2006	Concession in R. of Congo passes legality audit The German Danzer Group has informed that one of its subsidiaries, Industrie Forestière d'Ouesso ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report
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21/11/2005	Congo expels timber dealers ...	AllAfrica.com
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09/11/2005	Africa's rainforests fro the chop in world's biggest illegal giveaway Press Release - New information obtained by the Rainforest Foundation shows that vast areas of the world's ...	Rainforest Foundation
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03/11/2005	Congo shows Europe how to protect forests, with laws Greenpeace - For centuries fortune seekers have plundered the huge rainforest of the Congo basin in the ...	Libération Afrique (France)
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28/10/2005	No new logging in green heart of Africa: Congolese President vows to clean up logging industry Greenpeace welcomed a decree by President Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to reform ...	Yuba Net (USA)
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12/09/2005	Treaty offers world's last chance to save great apes They are man's closest cousins and they are staring into the abyss. But one of the most important ...	The Independent (UK)
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11/02/2005	World leaders must take action on Congo agreement African heads of state and French President Jacques Chirac have jointly pledged to protect the Congo ...	Environmental Data Interactive (UK)
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15/11/2004	DRC takes a serious look at preserving its forests Kinshasa, DRC - A ban on logging concessions in the Democratic Republic of Congo's rainforest must ...	Reuters
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16/08/2004	Concern over Congo logging Environmental groups have expressed concern at Congo's plans to open up its rainforest for increased ...	BBC
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24/06/2004	Central African officials to meet in Congo on regional environment strategy Central African forestry officials are to hold a long-delayed meeting Friday to hammer out a regional ...	Terra Daily
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15/05/2003	Greenpeace uncovers contentious timber in French port Greenpeace activists uncovered approximately 8000 cubic metres of contentious timber from Liberia, Cameroon ...	Greenpeace
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26/08/2001	Mugabe's loggers to ravage rainforest The army of Zimbabwe's despotic ruler will help to fell trees in 85m acres of Congo. But the people ...	The Observer (UK)
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PRESENTATIONS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
22/01/2010	Forest Sector Reforms and REDD in the Democratic Republic of Congo	Roger Muchuba, Groupe de Travail, REDD, DRC
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24/06/2009	Finding common ground: multi-stakeholder dialogues in the DRC	Mari-Lise du Preez, South African Institute of International Affairs
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23/06/2009	The domestic timber sector in the Congo Basin	Paolo Cerutti, CIFOR
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18/06/2008	Adapting to Trends and Enhancing Mutual Trust to Increase Sino-African Cooperation and Communication on Forestry: Report of forestry study tour in three African countries	Chinese State Forestry Administration (Su Ming)
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18/06/2008	US efforts in Congo Basin Forest Partnership	U.S. Embassy Beijing (C Sherry Hong)
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18/01/2008	Alternative models and financial mechanisms for sustainable forest use in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	Alison Hoare, Chatham House
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17/01/2008	Federation des Industriels du bois en RDC (Forest Industry Federation of DRC)	Francois Van de Ven
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17/01/2008	Mission findings and policy recommendations from a feasibility study for Independent Forest Monitoring in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	Reiner Tegtmeyer, Global Witness
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17/01/2008	Timber Trade in the Upper Great Lakes Region	Sam Lawson, Earthsight
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09/07/2007	SM Certification in the Congo Basin region	Interafrican Forest Industries Association (Herv Bourguignon)
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EVENTS

DATE	TITLE
Thursday 17th January 2008	Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 11 The eleventh in a series of update meetings coordinated by Chatham House and funded by DFID, the meeting ...
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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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Tuesday 24th October 2006	First International Conference of Members of Parliament on the Sustainable Management of Central African Forest Ecosystems Attended by more than 400 parliamentarians and issue experts from inter-governmental and non-governmental ...
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LINKS

TITLE	DESCRIPTION	REPORT
'Vision' Interactive GIS Tool	This web-GIS tool currently focuses on the three study areas that are part of the IES programme on Environmental Security for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA). These areas are: Central Kalimantan, Indonesian part of Borneo; the Mataven region in Colombia; the transboundary region between Rwanda, Uganda and the DR Congo, in the African Great Lakes region. The tool allows users to access and analyse mapping and monitoring information, including forest cover and deforestation, thus increasing transparency and fostering accountability.	Broken link
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AfriTRON: African Tropical Rainforest Observation Network	The African Tropical Rainforest Observation Network (AfriTRON), is an international network of researchers engaged in on-the-ground long-term monitoring of tropical forests. The network pools expertise and data to help answer larger-scale and longer-term questions relating to the ecology and biogeochemistry of African tropical forests. In particular AfriTRON aims to address questions of contemporary importance such as the possible impacts of regional and global environmental changes on tropical forests, and the impacts of changes in the forests themselves on the regional and global environment. This is done through partnerships between scientists across the world, students and local villages who host our field-trips.	Broken link
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Congo Basin Forest Partnership	The Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) is an association of almost 50 governmental and nongovernmental organisations that works to promote sustainable management of Congo Basin forest ecosystems and wildlife, and improve the lives of people living in the region. It was originally agreed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in September 2002.	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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