GTTN Working Groups address key issues related to the successful development of timber tracking tools and policies and promote their use to reduce illegal logging and associated trade worldwide. In face-to-face meetings, we they discussed the working papers on Standardization, on Lab Finder and Reference Database, and on the Communication and Advocacy Strategy. Moreover, they discussed practical questions and developed milestones for the future organization of the Working Groups.
Goal of WG1 was to concentrate the creative and scientific thinking of all timber tracking experts in a few concrete improvements of the methods and their international acceptance