GTTN closed workshop: “How to combine timber tracking tools and secure reliable species and origin identification”

GTTN closed workshop: “How to combine timber tracking tools and secure reliable species and origin identification”

June 12, 2018

GTTN supports a pilot study on Sapelli, a tropical tree species from which reference data developed with different timber identification methods are already available (DNA, stable isotopes, DART TOFMS). The meeting in Wageningen will be a closed (invitation only) workshop with those experts who developed reference data on Sapelli and […]

GTTN Working Groups Reports online now

February 8, 2018

Network, Working groups

Under “Meetings” in our document library you are now able to find three reports, resulting from fruitful and interesting discussions during the GTTN Working Group meetings on 19-20 October 2017. GTTN Working Groups were to address key issues related to the successful development of timber tracking tools and policies and promote […]

December 12, 2017

Network, Research institute, Testimonials, Timber tracking

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 […]

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. […]

GTTN Timber Tracking Workshops

October 19, 2017

The Global Timber Tracking Network kindly invites to join the GTTN Working Groups meetings on 19-20 October 2017, which are organized back-to-back with the Forest Legality Week in Washington, D.C.. GTTN Working Groups will address key issues related to the successful development of timber tracking tools and policies and promote […]

GTTN Working Group Meetings starting soon

October 10, 2017

Network, Timber tracking, Working groups

The GTTN Working Groups meetings, which are organized back-to-back with the Forest Legality Week in Washington, D.C., will take place on 19-20 October 2017. The Forest Legality Week already includes a more general introduction to GTTN, to inform a broader audience. GTTN Working Groups will then address key issues related […]