Tracing the world’s timber: the status of scientific verification technologies for species and origin identification

Tracing the world’s timber: the status of scientific verification technologies for species and origin identification

August 11, 2022

Results of this newly published study show that for species identification, reference data exist for 100% of taxa using wood anatomy, 86% using genetics, 41% for using DART TOFMS, and 6% using NIRS. For origin identification, data exist for 24% of taxa, with most studies applying genetic approaches (23%).

APEC Chile 2019

February 23, 2019

The International Forest Policy Section of the Australian Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, a GTTN member, will join the Experts Group on Illegal Logging and Associated Trade (EGILAT) workshop during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting to share experience, knowledge and challenges on implementation of tools for combating and […]

TIMTRACE: new forensic timber tracing service

January 18, 2019

Network, Research institute, Timber tracking, University

Professor Pieter Zuidema, from the Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group at Wageningen University recently talked to Gesche Schifferdecker, GTTN Secretariat, about a new forensic timber tracing service Wageningen is currently developing, and the different partners involved. G.S.: What are the advantages of genetic wood identification? Why is this method used […]

Washington Forest Legality Week 2018

October 23, 2018

Washington Forest Legality Week 2018 is intended to enable dialogue and inspire action and partnerships to more effectively implement and monitor timber trade legality and due diligence measures. It is a multi-stakeholder, international event, drawing stakeholders from governments, the private sector, civil society, the scientific community, and service providers such […]

With DNA And Tree Rings: Nature Fights Back

November 21, 2017

Timber tracking, University, Working groups

Illegal logging is a major global concern not only when it comes to climate change. It severely disturbs people’s livelihoods and food security, natural habitats and accounts for a serious loss of annual revenue in the logging industry. One of the major reasons for the continuous illegal logging is identification […]

Innovation Forum: How business can tackle deforestation

November 14, 2017

The newest methodologies, technologies and industry examples for implementing zero deforestation policies The Innovation Forum invites to its interactive conference on how to tackle deforestation in the human rights action center of Amnesty International London. This event will bring together key players from business, government, NGOs and the investment community. […]

GTTN Timber Tracking Workshops

October 19, 2017

The Global Timber Tracking Network kindly invites to join the GTTN Working Groups meetings on 19-20 October 2017, which are organized back-to-back with the Forest Legality Week in Washington, D.C.. GTTN Working Groups will address key issues related to the successful development of timber tracking tools and policies and promote […]

Washington Forest Legality Week 2017

October 17, 2017

Building on the tradition of the Forest Legality Alliance semi-annual partners’ meeting that WRI hosted in past years, WRI is pleased to announce that it will host the first “Washington Forest Legality Week” October 17-19, with the generous support and cooperation of the U.S. Forest Service. The Washington Forest Legality […]

Asian countries develop timber import controls

September 13, 2017

Governmental organisation, Network, Timber tracking

Legislation on timber import is now emerging in several Asian countries. The non-profit organization “Forest Trends” (with support from UK aid) recently published a report on the current legislative developments regarding illegal logging in Asia, looking at Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and China. With Asian countries introducing […]

Application of high throughput genotyping techs for forest tree species identification and timber tracking

September 13, 2017

The goal of the workshop is to discuss possible strategies to efficiently transfer information and experience among worldwide genomics initiatives to guide the development of standardised protocols for DNA extraction and strategies to identify SNP sets, with high discrimination power, from the most relevant timber species threatened by illegal logging […]