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APFW 2019 – report

  • June 24, 2019
Network, Timber tracking
The Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2019 (APFW 2019) was jointly organized and hosted by the Korea Forest Service (KFS) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The event took place in Songdo ConvensiA Convention Center, Incheon, the Republic of Korea, 17-21 June 2019. During the event, the […]
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Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2019

  • June 17, 2019
APFW 2019 will be the fourth Asia-Pacific Forestry Week following events held in Hanoi, Viet Nam in April 2008, Beijing, China in November 2011, and Pampanga, the Philippines in February 2016. APFW 2019 will comprise various workshops, seminars, and other partner events organized along five streams: Restoring our forests and […]
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National Initiatives Progress on Legal Timber Trade

  • October 9, 2017
Network, NGO, Timber tracking
A series of regional and national developments highlight the importance of combating illegal logging and related trade, and developing the preconditions to promote legal timber trade and certification schemes. September 2017: A series of regional and national developments of relevance to forests and forestry highlight the importance of combating illegal […]
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Africa: Independent Forest Monitoring to Boost Transparency

  • July 7, 2017
Network
Independent forest monitoring by civil society can improve transparency and help strengthen checks on illegality in the forest sector in Africa, an international conference heard last month in Accra. Over 70 experts from ten countries including Cameroon, Cote D’Ivoire, Liberia, Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo attended […]
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Factory staff registering dried teak, Yangon, Myanmar by EU FLEGT Facility

Myanmar commits to address gaps in timber legality assurance system for improved forest governance

  • June 23, 2017
Timber tracking
The Government of Myanmar has committed to improving the country’s timber legality assurance system following the release of a report that analysed the “gaps” in the system in the context of internationally recognised principles, requirements and best practices. The Myanmar Forest Certification Committee (MFCC) commissioned the gap analysis report in […]
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