As the world’s top importer and consumer of timber products, China is in a unique, and influential, position to take a leadership role to ensure that only legally and sustainably sourced timber –...
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Since early 2000, Independent Forest Monitoring (IFM) has been championed by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as a way to document illegalities and promote stronger law enforcement in the...
The South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is home to the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the Asia-Pacific...
Commercial agricultural production caused nearly three-quarters of tropical forest loss between 2000 and 2012. A growing number of the companies producing and procuring agricultural commodities ...
This factsheet from CIFOR looks at the rate of deforestation in Borneo and the effects of agriculture, logging, palm oil and forest fires have had on the landscape over the years.
In 1973,...