One app for Amazon wood identification

One app for Amazon wood identification

November 5, 2018

Network

With support of the Regional Amazon Program (BMZ, DGIS, GIZ) and the German Thünen Institute, the Laboratory of Forest Products of the Brasilian Forest Service and the Amazon Institute for Scientific Research (SINCHI) in Colombia, agreed in 2009 to develop an electronic key to identify Amazonian tree species. They were […]

China timber trade threatened by illegal logging in Papua New Guinea

July 31, 2018

NGO, Timber tracking

Global Witness just released a report that reveals that many logging operations in the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) appear to be breaking the law. “In 2017, an assessment of legality risks in most of the world’s timber-producing countries found PNG’s timber to be among the riskiest, with potential […]

Combating Blood-Stained Timber Trade: Jo Van Brusselen on Timber Certification

December 4, 2017

Network, Timber tracking

Jo Van Brusselen, principal scientist with the European Forest Institute and GTTN-coordinator, was interviewed by Deutsche Welle (DW) on illegal logging and related trade and asked to reflect on the government’s as well as the consumers’ potential to put an end to it. On Friday, DW – the German foreign […]