Timber Tags: The currency of illegal logging and forest corruption in Guiana Shield countries

This briefing note produced originally for the Chatham House FLEGT Update Meeting in July 2006 reports interim findings from fieldwork in Suriname and Guyana. The study on 'slippage' between Government law, regulation, policy, strategy, procedures and actual practices shows widespread failures and extensive corruption, was updated in December 2007.

Date:17/07/2006
Author: 'Bulkan, Janette and John Palmer'
LINK TO JULY 2006 VERSION (41k)
LINK TO DOCUMENT (78k)
LINK TO DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING TIMBER TAG TRANSFER (146k)

edited:22/01/2008
uploaded:17/07/2006