Sourcing Legally Produced Wood: A Guide for Businesses

Sourcing Legally Produced Wood: A Guide for Businesses

September 27, 2018

The Forest Legality Initiative‘s Legality Guide ‘Sourcing Legally Produced Wood: A Guide for Businesses — 2018 Edition’ has been updated and expanded. In the new 2018 version you can find information on: The international community’s response to illegal logging including updated information on demand-side laws and regulations such as the […]

Introduction to DART-TOFMS

September 24, 2018

Network, Research institute

Do you want to know how wood chemistry works and how this wood identification method can contribute to the reduction of illegal logging? The international journal Mongabay, a non-profit provider of conservation and environmental science news, published an interesting interview with Kristen Finch, then working as a lab technician at […]

Public procurement of legal wood in Central Africa

September 4, 2018

Governmental organisation, Network, NGO, Timber tracking

The Observatory of Central African Forests (OFAC) has released a policy brief to encourage legally sourced wood in government procurement contracts in Central Africa. According to the publication, the States and their development partners account for a large part of the local wood demand through government contracts, which do not necessary specify a […]