BBC’s People fixing the world about GTTN

BBC’s People fixing the world about GTTN

August 5, 2019

Network, Research institute, Timber tracking

The tree detectives episode of BBC’s People fixing the world program clearly explains what GTTN stands for with concrete examples. In the podcast, the reporter talks to a forest concession manager in the Solomon Islands, where there are cases of legally sourced wood shipments mixed with wood from illegal sources. […]

Sourcing Legally Produced Wood: A Guide for Businesses

September 27, 2018

Network, Timber tracking

The Forest Legality Initiative‘s Legality Guide ‘Sourcing Legally Produced Wood: A Guide for Businesses — 2018 Edition’ has been updated and expanded. In the new 2018 version you can find information on: The international community’s response to illegal logging including updated information on demand-side laws and regulations such as the […]

WRI raising awareness for the potentials of wood DNA testing

June 13, 2018

Network, Research institute, Timber tracking, Uncategorized

GTTN partner World Resources Institute (WRI) recently posted a blog article on how “DNA Testing Can Save Trees from Illegal Logging”. By referring to a scandalous case in 2015, when Washington state sawmill owner Harold Clause Kupers was found guilty for buying logs illegally harvested from Gifford Pinchot National Forest, […]

Adventurers Callout to collect samples to fight illegal logging

April 23, 2018

Governmental organisation, Research institute, Timber tracking, Uncategorized

Are you a hiker, backpacker or sea kayaker? Adventure Scientists and the World Resources Institute need volunteers to collect bigleaf maple samples such as leaves, seeds, or tree cores from select sites in California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia this spring and summer. These samples will be used by DNA4 […]

CPTTP and its major set back for the fight against illegal logging

April 2, 2018

NGO, Research institute

Although the US has pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP), 11 countries still signed the strongly contested trade agreement in the beginning of March 2018. The now called Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTTP) still contains the most important TTP agreements, however including changes, which are visible in the […]

Near real-time monitoring of forest change with Global Forest Watch

February 16, 2018

Network, NGO, Timber tracking

Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an online platform that provides data and tools for monitoring forests. With the help of satellite technology, GFW provides near real-time information about where in most importantly how forests are being altered around the globe. Global Forest Watch includes profiles of around 170 countries, small […]

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 […]

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 […]