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  • Why I’m cautiously hopeful about China’s efforts towards regulating timber imports

    by Beibei Yin, 05 April 2018
    In 2012, when I first started researching China’s illegal timber imports, related news or information in Chinese was scarce. Six years on, however, a study co-authored by a Chinese government research institution offers a flicker of hope. China may be heading in the right direction and joining a growing global community who prohibit illegal timber imports by law.
  • How can Europe help stop the deadly trade in conflict timber?

    by Patrick Alley, Director and Co-founder of Global Witness, 21 June 2017
    Twenty-two years ago Global Witness cut its teeth exposing the trade in conflict timber in war-torn Cambodia. Posing as European timber buyers, my colleagues and I exposed how the genocidal Khmer Rouge was selling wood to logging companies just across the border in Thailand.
  • How the EU can protect the world’s forest by tackling corruption

    by Global Witness, 23 January 2017
    Amid the political turbulence that kicked off in Europe in 2016, an important event from last year risks being forgotten, the unprecedented global commitment to tackle corruption.
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