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19/02/2004 RIIA Research on Money Laundering
It has been proposed that recent improvements in money laundering legislation may allow for the capture ...
Chatham House/RIIA (Duncan Brack and Jade Saunders)

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01/01/2008 Breaking the rings of forest corruption: steps towards better forest governance
Corruption appears to be the major factor which prevents proper control of long-term forest harvesting ...
Forests Trees and Livelihoods (Janette Bulkan and John Palmer)

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01/05/2006 Demand-Side Options: Policies and measures for reducing imports of illegal timber and timber products to consumer countries
Looks at the options available to governments of consumer countries to reduce their contribution to illegal ...
Chatham House (Duncan Brack and Jade Saunders)

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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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01/07/2007 Documents relating to the Cameroon EU FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA)
A collection of documents relating to the Cameroon EU FLEGT VPA negotiation process. Includes details ...
Government of Cameroon

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01/08/2006 Rimbunan Hijau can't handle the truth
Response to comments in the ITS-Global report 'Whatever ...
Greenpeace

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20/11/2008 Due Negligence
Analysis and critique of the European Commission's draft regulation on a system of 'due diligence' ...
Environmental Investigation Agency

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01/08/2006 Illegal Logging: A Market-Based Analysis of Trafficking in Illegal Timber
A literature review prior to this study revealed that the causes, methods, and perpetrators of illegal ...
Abt Associates Inc. for the U.S. Department of Justice

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01/07/2008 European Commission FLEGT Briefing sheets (English Version)
An updated series of documents (also see EC ...
European Commission

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01/08/2006 Strengthening Forest Law Enforcement and Governance: Addressing a systemic constraint to sustainable development
This report arises from the need to take stock of both the Bank's efforts in the arena of forest ...
World Bank

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28/10/2009 Precious trees pay off – but who pays?
This 'poster' documents the results of the political fallout in Madagascar during 2009 in terms ...
Lucienne Wilmé, Derek Schuurman, Porter P. Lowry and Peter H. Raven

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10/11/2009 Briefing Note on: ASEAN Criteria and Indicators for Legality of Timber
The ASEAN Senior Officials on Forestry adopted on 27 June 2009 the ASEAN Criteria and Indicators for ...
The ASEAN German Regional Forest Programme (Alexander Hinrichs)

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19/02/2004 RIIA Research on Money Laundering
It has been proposed that recent improvements in money laundering legislation may allow for the capture ...
Chatham House/RIIA (Duncan Brack and Jade Saunders)

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01/04/2009 UK Public Consultation on EU Due Diligence Regulation
DEFRA has released this public consultation to seek public views on the draft European Commission proposal ...
DEFRA

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01/03/2007 The Race for Peru's Last Mahogany Trees: Illegal logging and the Alto Purus National Park
This investigation found evidence of large-scale illegal logging in remote parts of the Peruvian Amazon ...
Round River Conservation Studies

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20/01/2010 Controlling Illegal Logging: Consumer-Country Measures
Summary and analysis of the range of measures taken by consumer countries to control imports of illegal ...
Chatham House (Duncan Brack)

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01/03/2007 Good Wood, Good Business
Good Wood, Good Business is written mainly for CEOs or senior managers of companies that produce and/or ...
Tropical Forest Trust

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01/02/2010
Forest Watch Special Report – Update report on FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreements
This FERN Special Report offers a brief overview of VPAs and an update on the status of negotiations ...
FERN (Saskia Ozinga & Iola Leal)

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01/02/2010
Bridging the Information Gap: Combating Illegal Logging in Indonesia
Indonesia has incorporated themes of “sustainable forest management” and “combating ...
WRI (World Resources Institute)

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22/06/2009 Combating Illegal Logging: Interaction with WTO Rules
Controlling international trade in illegal timber is an essential part of the international effort to ...
Chatham House (Duncan Brack)

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10/03/2010
Private Sector Forest Legality Initiatives as a Complement to Public Action
Over the past 20 years a number of public and private sector forest products and forest-related legality ...
Rainforest Alliance (Richard Z. Donovan)

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01/02/2010
Forest Footprint Disclosure Annual Review 2009
Forest Footprint Disclosure is a special project of the Global Canopy Foundation. Initiated in 2008 the ...
Global Canopy Foundation

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01/03/2010
Assessing the Progress Made: An Evaluation of Forest Management Certification in the Tropics
This study analysed the evaluation reports of 123 Forest Management Units (FMUs) managing natural tropical ...
Marielos Peña-Claros, Stijn Blommerde & Frans Bongers

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01/07/2002 G8 Action Programme on Forests Final Report
Final report on actions undertaken by G8 nations under the Action Programme agreed in 1998, covering ...
G8

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01/10/2005 A Choice for China: Ending the destruction of Burma's northern frontier forests
This report makes the case for ending the illegal logging in Burma's northern forests. Although ...
Global Witness

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01/10/2004 ASEAN Strategic Plan of Action on Forestry for 2005 – 2010
This action plan was endorsed on October 2004 in Yangon. It discusses development of a common certification ...
ASEAN

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15/06/2007 Notes from the second Ghana-European Commission VPA Negotiation Session
The second Ghana-European Commission negotiation session on a Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and ...
Ghanaian Government and the European Commission

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28/11/2008 Due Diligence Systems
The principle of due diligence is used in a wide range of sectors and a variety of contexts. This report ...
Chatham House (Alison Hoare)

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28/11/2008 Due Diligence in the EU Timber Market
Analysis of the European Commission's proposal for a regulation laying down the obligations of operators ...
Chatham House (Duncan Brack)

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NEWS

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19/09/2006 Illegal or legal logging?
The debate about industrial logging and its benefits for Papua New Guinea continues with a lot of talk ...
PNG Post-Courier (Papua New Guinea)

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06/01/2009 Fifteen timber lorries impounded
Uganda - A new group that is tracking illegal trade in forest products impounded 15 lorries loaded with ...
New Vision (Uganda)

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29/01/2008 Wal-Mart Buying Illegal Russian Wood to Make Products for US Market Report Alleges
USA - The environmental watchdog group the Environmental Investigation Agency released a report earlier ...
Sustainable is Good (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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05/02/2005 Defensor files charges vs illegal loggers, bgy officials
Nineteen individuals and two companies have been charged at the Department of Justice on Thursday for ...
ABS-CBN (The Philippines)

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04/05/2007 Sumatra courts irk police with 'iffy' verdicts
Indonesia - Regional police across Sumatra have been puzzled by the release of many illegal logging suspects ...
The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)

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29/05/2009 Interview - Forest-CO2 scheme will draw organised crime: Interpol
Nusa Dua, Indonesia - Organised crime syndicates are eyeing the nascent forest carbon credit industry ...
Reuters

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26/04/2006 Power and illegal logging (poder y tala ilegal)
The Independent Forest Monitor in Honduras publishes today two new reports, both of which document illegal ...
Global Witness (UK)

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23/08/2009 Police reveal alleged wood-smuggling syndicate
Sampit, Central Kalimantan - The National Police have seized 12 ships with around 6,600 cubic meters ...
The Jakarta Globe

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05/05/2009 Papua police seize smuggled timber
Authorities have seized more than 200 cubic meters of timber believed to have been illegally logged and ...
The Jakarta Globe

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29/06/2004 Greenpeace claims to expose Danzer Group's involvement in bribery and illegal logging
Switzerland/The Netherlands - An investigation published by Greenpeace International today claims to ...
Greenpeace

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30/05/2007 Peru's mahogany exports threaten survival of indigenous tribes and violate international law
A new report documents widespread illegal and unsustainable logging of mahogany in Peru. The Peruvian ...
AIDESEP (National Association of Amazon Indians, Peru) and Rainforest Foundation Norway

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18/05/2009 Malaysia, Indonesia to continue talks on preventing illegal logging
Kuching - Malaysia and Indonesia will continue to hold discussions to enhance cooperation and take all ...
Bernama, Malaysia

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15/06/2006 America's free trade pacts driving illegal timber trade: destruction of Asian and Latin American forests
(Press Release) Washington, USA - US free trade agreements are accelerating the destruction of tropical ...
EIA

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APPROACHES

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APPROACHES SEARCH PAGE
4 See www.illegal-logging.info/sub_approach.php?approach_id=26&subApproach_id= 120. ... VIEW CONTENT BY. DOCUMENTS (3); EVENTS (1); APPROACHES (1) ...

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APPROACHES NEW TO THESE ISSUES?
Below is a selection of documents that we hope will get you started on the right ... We will continue to add documents and introductory text to this page. ... ...

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APPROACHES COMMUNITIES AND LIVELIHOODS
This 'poster' documents the results of the political fallout in Madagascar ... Summary document looking at current proposals on reducing emissions from ... ...

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APPROACHES AFRICA
This document focuses on emerging best practices to bring illegal activities under control in the forestry . ... ...

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APPROACHES INDICATORS OF PROGRESS
Background documents for Chatham House's initial assessment of the global response to illegal logging . ... ...

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APPROACHES FRANCE
Summary documents with details of governmental timber ... Documents relating to French policy on public procurement of timber. ... ...

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APPROACHES SCALE OF ILLEGAL LOGGING
Background documents for Chatham House's initial assessment of the global ... A new report documents widespread illegal and unsustainable logging of ... ...

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APPROACHES LIBERIA VPA NEGOTIATIONS
DATE, TITLE, AUTHOR. - - - -. 27/03/2009, Road map for the negotiation process between Liberia and the European Commission for a ... ...

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APPROACHES BHUTAN
Bhutan - The Thimphu district court has fined two men for transporting timber without clearance documents ... Kuensel (Bhutan). < BACK TO TOP ... ...

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APPROACHES GLOSSARY OF TERMS
(Click on Issues/Certification on the left hand menu for more information and a selection of relevant documents, news and events.) ... ...

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APPROACHES REPUBLIC OF CONGO VPA
DATE, TITLE, AUTHOR. - - - -. 03/12/2007, Republique du Congo: Communiqu final, sanctionnant les travaux de l'atelier national ... ...

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APPROACHES MALAYSIA
Documents relating to the campaign organised by Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF) and ... A briefing document for the 54th Meeting of the CITES Standing Committee, ... ...

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APPROACHES GOVERNANCE
Documents relating efforts to improve governance can be found below. .... ' Forestry, governance and national development' documents alarming levels of ... ...

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APPROACHES BELGIUM
Summary documents with details of governmental timber procurement policies in a comparitive table format. ... Proforest ... ...

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APPROACHES DENMARK
Summary documents with details of governmental timber procurement ... Public consultation document on Denmark's revised draft ... ...

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APPROACHES CHINA
Briefing document from the Yale School of Forestry which considers China's ... Various translations of documents of relating to illegal logging and the FLEG ... ...

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APPROACHES MALAYSIA VPA NEGOTIATIONS
DATE, TITLE, AUTHOR. - - - -. 06/09/2007, Implementing the EU FLEGT Action Plan: promoting good governance in the forest sector ... ...

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