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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 […]
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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 […]
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Factory staff registering dried teak, Yangon, Myanmar by EU FLEGT Facility

Myanmar commits to address gaps in timber legality assurance system for improved forest governance

  • June 23, 2017
Timber tracking
The Government of Myanmar has committed to improving the country’s timber legality assurance system following the release of a report that analysed the “gaps” in the system in the context of internationally recognised principles, requirements and best practices. The Myanmar Forest Certification Committee (MFCC) commissioned the gap analysis report in […]
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Timber you can trust

  • June 9, 2017
Timber tracking
The Timber Trade Federation (TTF) has invited councils, business and other professionals who work with the timber industry to sign up to its new ‘Timber you can Trust’ campaign, highlighting the need to source timber responsibly. As councils across the UK commit to build new homes in increasing numbers, the […]
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GTTN is seeking experts!

  • April 3, 2017
Network, Timber tracking, Working groups
Do you work in timber tracking as a (potential) service provider or as a customer of methods to identify timber species and timber origin? Raise your profile by contributing to our concise ‘GTTN Expert Identification Survey’. Your feedback will help shape the GTTN working groups in terms of working group […]
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