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BVRio – a trading platform for sourcing legal and certified products from all over the world

March 26, 2018

Timber tracking

BVrio – A Bolsa Verde do Rio de Janeiro is a due diligence and risk assessment tool. It is a system which was designed to help timber traders to assess custody and the risk of illegality, based on big data analysis and satellite images, with results kept using block chain […]

Calculating the environmental impact of uncertified timber

February 12, 2018

Network, NGO, University

The European Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC) , an alliance dedicated to increasing the demand for certified timber and the sustainable harvest of tropical wood, recently informed about an interesting new calculating tool. A collaboration between FSC Netherlands and the global business consultancy Ernst & Young (EY) brought about a new calculator, […]

Timberleaks – a critical assessment of a new platform

January 26, 2018

Network, NGO, Timber tracking

Timberleaks is an organization determined to shine light on illegal logging practices happening around the world. They explain on their website that based on hard evidence, including but not limited to a ‘growing network of industry informants’, they aim to identify the most scandalous practices of the wood industry “to […]

December 20, 2017

Network, Research institute, Testimonials, Timber tracking

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 […]

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 […]

Merging of data and combination of methods: GTTN working group discussed new strategies for timber tracking

November 27, 2017

Network, Timber tracking, Working groups

In the framework of the Forest Legality Week and kindly hosted by the World Resources Institute, GTTN held its first working groups meeting on 19-20 Oct, 2017. On the second day of this event, three parallel workshops took place to discuss and to evolve strategies for the GTTN working groups. […]

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 […]

GTTN joined COP23 side event on REDD+ initiatives

November 17, 2017

Network, NGO, Timber tracking

More than 50 participants representing governments, international organisations, NGOs, academia as well as private companies and consultancy firms attended vivid discussions at a COP23 side event organized between EFI Bonn, the EFI FLEGT and REDD Unit in Barcelona, the EFI-coordinated SAFARI project with a contribution by the GTTN network on […]

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. […]

WRI and Norway Partner on Forest Legality and Transparency

October 26, 2017

Governmental organisation, Network

GTTN member organization World Resources Institute and the Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) are partnering on a new initiative, “Removing Transparency and Legality Obstacles to Implementing REDD+: Mobilizing New Technologies to Combat Illegal Logging and Associated Trade.” Timber and paper are among the world’s most commonly used and […]