certification

The rate of deforestation of the Amazon surged in the last five months of 2007, the Brazilian government says.

A practical business approach to combat illegal logging

En clair, la chaîne de suivi désigne le processus de repérage des produits forestiers provenant d’un territoire forestier délimité à chacune des étapes de propriété, de transport et de transformation, du moment où les produits quittent leur territoire forestier délimité d’origine jusqu’à ce qu’ils soient mis à la disposition des consommateurs. Cette publication spéciale énonce les exigences minimales auxquelles doit se conformer toute chaîne de suivi visant les produits forestiers provenant d’un territoire forestier délimité enregistré selon la norme CAN/CSA-Z809.

Through an advertorial in Aceh Kita, Fauna and Flora International confirmed that illegal timbers had been used in construction of houses by Istanbul International Brotherhood and Solidarity Association (IBS), Mamamia (local NGO funded by Caritas Germany and Austria), and construction of boats by Medecins sans Frontieres.

The prominence of third-party certification continues to grow worldwide. This site is a tool for information about certified forests, products and the varied approaches to evaluating well-managed forests.

FSC is an international not-for-profit membership-based organization that brings people together to find solutions to the problems created by bad forestry practices and to reward good forest management.

New genetic tests could help crack down on illegal food or timber trade, fight malaria or even give clues to how to stop bird strikes with planes, scientists said on Friday.

...the Aceh-Nias Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency (BRR), World Wide Fund for Nature Indonesia (WWF), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) hosted a "Marketplace for Sustainably-Sourced Timber" in Medan, Indonesia on July 5-6, 2006.

ITTO is an intergovernmental organization promoting the conservation and sustainable management, use and trade of tropical forest resources. Its 59 members represent about 80\% of the world's tropical forests and 90\% of the global tropical timber trade.

Tens of thousands of Indonesian survivors of the 2004 Asian tsunami are still living in rotting tents, despite a months-long campaign to rehouse them, because the International Federation of the Red Cross has struggled to secure legally certified timber, it emerged yesterday.

Liberia's Forestry Development Authority is preparing a new bidding process for logging concessions following the lifting in October of the United Nations Security Council's three-year ban on Liberian timber exports.

Timber exporting and importing nations set themselves a tight agenda for action on Monday, giving themselves barely 18 months to produce tough new tactics to tackle illegal logging.

The Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) is an independent organisation established to develop and operate a voluntary national timber certification scheme in Malaysia, in order to provide independent assessments of forest management practices as well as to meet the demand for certified timber products.

...Oxfam Australia has previously exported 8,500 cubic metres of sustainable Australian timber to Sri Lanka at the request of the government there which had identified a shortage of local wood. This was the largest export of Australian timber to a single source ever and the largest amount of timber ever imported from a single source by Sri Lanka.

The PEFC Council (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, founded in 1999 which promotes sustainably managed forests through independent third party certification. The PEFC provides an assurance mechanism to purchasers of wood and paper products that they are promoting the sustainable management of forests.

The United Nations Security Council today requested Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to renew a panel of financial experts and specialists in the timber and diamond trades to continue investigating violations of Council sanctions against Liberia

Against an increasingly difficult background characterised by tough trading conditions and environmental activism over illegal wood, UK Timber Trade Federation (TTF) members met on June 4th, 2003 to discuss the prospects of securing legal wood from Indonesia.

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) program is based on the premise that responsible environmental behavior and sound business decisions can co-exist. SFI program participants practice sustainable forestry on all the lands they manage. They also influence millions of additional acres through the training of loggers and foresters in best management practices and landowner outreach programs.

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