GTTN Regional Workshop in Beijing, China

GTTN Regional Workshop in Beijing, China

May 22, 2019

The Global Timber Tracking Network (GTTN) Regional Workshop for Asia will be organised back-to-back with the IAWA-IUFRO international symposium on “Challenges and Opportunities for Updating Wood Identification”, from 20-23 May, in Beijing, China. This is through cooperation with the Chinese Research Institute of Wood Industry of the Chinese Academy of […]

The power of language and global networks: your input is needed!

February 12, 2019

Network

How much of the available scientific knowledge within the GTTNetwork is already shared? We, the GTTN Secretariat, kindly ask you to provide an overview of all GTTN-related publications. We would like to figure out how much relevant information we are missing if we only take knowledge of the English language […]

The Role of Wood Science and Technology in a Sustainable World

November 16, 2018

Network, Timber tracking

Wood is highly appreciated and used for construction, furniture design and increasingly also for the production of clothes and other everyday objects due to its special material, appealing aesthetics and the sense of warmth portrayed by it. As such, it is expected that the global demand for timber will only […]

GTTN Regional Workshop in Lima, Peru

November 7, 2018

The Global Timber Tracking Network’s (GTTN) is inviting to our Regional Workshop, taking place on 7-9 November 2018 in Lima, Peru. From around the globe, GTTN brings specialists together to further develop (the combination of) innovative technologies like DNA-analysis, stable isotope analysis, mass spectrometry and other methods with modern wood […]

Battling Illegal Timber Trade with the Xylotron

October 23, 2018

Network, Research institute, Timber tracking, University

Four researchers from Ghana are currently on campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to learn the ins and outs of UW-Madison wood identification technology in an effort to bring the knowledge back to their home country. Emmanuel Ebenyenle, Senior Research Scientist at the CSIR Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, and […]

Indonesia develops rapid wood identification system

October 21, 2018

Governmental organisation, Research institute, Timber tracking

As a result of a collaboration between the Indonesian Institute of Sciences and the Ministries of Environment and Forestry and Research, Technology and Higher Education an innovative technology for wood identification called AIKO has been developed in Indonesian language. A lead researcher, Esa Prakasa, said AIKO is a mobile phone […]

Celebrating 5 years of EUTR

October 18, 2018

Governmental organisation, Network, NGO, Research institute, Timber tracking

On October 8-9, 2018, GTTN members met with representatives from the European Commission, the US Government, ITTO, NGOs, scientists, competent authorities, and the private sector at the five-year celebration of the implementation of the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) and the Thünen Centre of Competence on the origin of timber. […]

Wageningen: Two PhD candidates in for tropical timber tracing

October 5, 2018

Network, Timber tracking, University

The Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group (part of the Environmental Sciences Group) of Wageningen University is looking for two highly motivated PhD candidates with the following qualifications: • An MSc degree in a relevant field, including: biology, forest & nature conservation, plant sciences or wood sciences • Affinity with […]

GTTN Service Providers Directory

August 22, 2018

Timber tracking, Working groups

The GTTN Service Providers Directory is designed as a system to help anyone in need of wood identification services, to find information on available scientific methods and tools (wood genetics, wood chemistry and wood anatomy) and to identify a capable laboratory. Finding the right laboratory will depend on what needs […]

DNA markers for timber tracking of Larixspp.

July 12, 2018

Research institute, Timber tracking

Scientist from the Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics and Bashkirian State University have recently published an article about SNP markers for timber tracking of Larixspp. in Europe and Russia. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNPs) are variations in a DNA sequence, which are used by forensics scientists to identify the geographical origin […]