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Illegal Logging and Related Trade – Indicators of the Assessment Findings: Thailand
This summarizes Thailand 2013 Assessment Findings. More than half of Thailand’s wood demand is met by imports, and of these 20% is estimated to have been illegally sourced. Howe...
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Efficacy of Removing Natural Forests from Timber Production as a Strategy for Conserving Forests
Several countries of the Asia-Pacific region have imposed total or partial logging bans (or similar restrictions on timber harvesting) in response to the rapid decline of natura...
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Sourcing Legally Produced Wood: A Guide for Businesses — 2018 Edition
This publication updates the 2014 version of Sourcing Legally Produced Wood, which provided information on illegal logging and associated trade, public and private procurement p...
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Forestry legality compendium as a tool for timber legality development and supply chain control for production forest
• A comprehensive resource on legal information about forest and timber. • Identifying gaps, conflicts and areas that may need to be addressed - need to identify priorities.
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Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods 2015
Although rubber is produced successfully in some marginal environment–as many hardy clones have been developed – there are also numerous reports of failures associated with en...
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Laos: Planting for the future
The annexes of a report commissioned by the Lao Land Issues Working Group to map the principles and process for preparing an environmental and social Code of Practice (CoP) for ...
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ASEAN guidelines for chain of custody of legal timber and sustainable timber
These guidelines prepared by ASEAN include definitions, fundamentals, and guidelines for both legal and sustainable timber as well as a list of references used to prepare the...