Outreach and media

MEDIA COVERAGE

CIFOR:
http://blog.cifor.org/47661/illegal-logging-a-russian-nesting-doll

The Mainichi - Japan's National Daily since 1922:
http://mainichi.jp/articles/20170109/k00/00m/040/079000c

Mongabay:
https://news.mongabay.com/2016/12/illegal-logging-shows-little-sign-of-slowing/ 

Eco-Business:
http://www.eco-business.com/news/illegal-logging-shows-little-sign-of-slowing/

DownToEarth:
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/india-is-third-largest-importer-of-illegally-logged-wood-iufro-56620?platform=hootsuite

Radio report, German WDR: 
http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr5/wdr5-leonardo-top-themen/audio-illegale-abholzungen-schreiten-vor-allem-in-asien-voran-100.html

Bioeconomy in BW (Baden-Württemberg):
https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/de/fachbeitrag/aktuell/oekosystemdienstleister-wald-facetten-und-folgen-des-holzeinschlags

Additional coverage:
PDF for download  

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PRESS RELEASE

Loopholes in regulations allow illegal logging to thrive worldwide
Brechas en regulaciones permiten que la tala ilegal prospere en todo el mundo;

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IUFRO-GFEP MEDIA ALERT

Forests beyond the law: Scientific insights into illegal logging and related timber trade

PDF for download   

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SOCIAL MEDIA

https://twitter.com/i/moments/806076971130224640
https://www.facebook.com/events/1691357967775963/

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Fighting Wildlife Crime by Fighting Illegal Timber Trade

Article published on the occasion of the World Environment Day, 5 June.


Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP 17) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and
27th Meeting of the INTERPOL Wildlife Crime Working Group
Johannesburg, South Africa; 24 September - 5 October 2016.

Agenda INTERPOL Wildlife Crime Working Group - Report


PHOTOS


 

Rainforest destruction from aerial view
Photo © Fotolia: khlongwangchao
 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Large-scale timber trafficking from Indonesia to Malaysia in the interior of Borneo. Meranti timber that was illegally logged in Indonesia's Betung Kerihun National Park is waiting to be trafficked to nearby Malaysia (Sarawak).
Photos © Tim Boekhout van Solinge
 


 

 

Office furniture made from rosewood (China)
Photo © Jianbang Gan