2018 European Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC) Conference

2018 European Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC) Conference

October 25, 2018

The STTC Conference will be centered around the theme of market intelligence and increasing the sustainable tropical timber market share. Take part and you’ll share and learn from the experience of companies, trade federations, governments and NGOs in both gathering data and using it to grow the market for verified […]

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 […]

April 12, 2018

Testimonials, Timber tracking

“One of the major challenges of the beginning was definitely the size of the steering committee, with 14 members you always have many conflicting interests”, says Marius Ekué when he thinks back to the start of GTTN’s phase 1 in 2011. Ekué, who holds a PHD in Forest Genetics and […]

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 […]

Wood Identification via the App Store

March 17, 2018

Timber tracking

Semi-trained or untrained personnel in the timber industry usually has no choice but to identify timber by its color, appearance or other specific features on the wood. An app called MyWood-Id was recently launched to change that. Working with the macro lens on the smartphone, the user should be able […]

GTTN and its contribution to tropical wood research

March 5, 2018

Network, Working groups

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 […]

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, […]

GTTN recommending: The Tropical Timber Atlas

January 11, 2018

NGO, Timber tracking

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 […]