“How do you see the future for timber tracking tools in support of implementation of legislations to fight illegal logging? What do you expect from the Global Timber Tracking Network and its future development? What is the work portfolio of the German Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food in the […]
Yorkshire company Agroisolab, GTTN member since more than three years now, is apparently one of the world’s leading companies when it comes to tracking, assessing and labeling the origin of an enormous range of products – from timber to caviar. A recent article by the Yorkshire Post shed more light on […]
Members of the GTTN network have now the opportunity to publish their work in a special issue of the journal Forests in the section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology. Background of the special issue is to bring different applications of wood research together and support the foundation of global change research. Tropical […]
Approximately 30-90% of all tropical hardwood is harvested illegally. Paper fraud is still a crucial factor in ineffective timber tracking. Researchers from the Department of Forest Ecology and Forest Management of Wageningen University succeeded in developing a method to effectively determine illegal timber. Genetic wood characteristics are excellent indicators for determining […]
The International Association of Wood Anatomists (IAWA), an association dedicated to raise awareness of the place of wood anatomy in science, technology and in the conservation of environmental resources, has released their newsletter for February 2018. The newsletter covers upcoming events for building bridges and facilitating knowledge exchange or for […]
After assessing and evaluating the effectiveness and the success of the European Timber Regulation (EUTR) over the past two years, it had to be noted that the EUTR – although covering a great number of timber products – is still showing deficits in its inventory. Consequence of this assessment was that the European […]
TRAFFIC, a GTTN partner and leading non-governmental organization, works to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature. During Forest Legality Week, GTTN spoke with Colomban Mac Dowall, project coordinator with TRAFFIC. “With the common legality framework, TRAFFIC together with WWF’s Global […]
The Tropical Timber Atlas: Technological characteristics and uses presents technical information for professionals who process and use temperate or tropical timber. It was recently published in French and in English. The publication combines the main technical characteristics of 283 tropical species and 17 species from temperate regions most commonly used […]
At this moment, technicalities are the biggest obstacles of successful timber tracking in Madagascar according to Harisoa Ravaomanalina, assistant professor at the University of Antananarivo and a member of Scientific Authority Board of CITES. Rosewood and Palisander are commercial names for Dalbergia wood, additionally to other local names for the popular […]
Accompanying the GTTN Working Group Meetings in Washington D.C. this fall, Gesche Schifferdecker – communications manager for GTTN and the European Forest Institute, interviewed Charles ‘Chip’ Barber, Director of the Forest Legality Initiative at World Resources Institute (WRI). Illegal logging is the first issue that comes up when concerned with deforestation […]