As major timber consuming markets, the EU, US, Australia, and most recently, Japan, have all introduced laws to restrict the access of illegally harvested timber to their markets. While the laws are essentially addressing the same...
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Publication Date: 2014 Given the alarming pace, level of sophistication, and globalized nature that illegal trade in wildlife has now notoriously achieved, UNEP initiated a Rapid Response Assessment to provide some of the latest...
The EU timber regulation (EUTR), the EU’s illegal logging law, has been in place for five years. This law aims to prevent illegal timber from entering the EU market and requires companies to check the risk of illegal timber...
A working document drafted by the Commission services intending to provide information to national authorities, EU operators and other stakeholders for the implementation of Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council...
Abuse of the environment is the fourth largest criminal activity in the world. Worth up to USD 258 billion, it is increasing by five to seven per cent every year and converging with other forms of international crime. It is...
This issue of UN Environment's flagship magazine, Our Planet focuses on Environmental Crime and features in-depth commentary, analysis and recommendations from a number of qualified contributing authors on this most topical of...
This brochure provides a brief summary of an assessment study carried out by UN Environment and WWF (amongst others). It involved case studies on illegal logging, illegal fishing of sturgeon and caviar trade, illegal killing of...
Home / Ecosystems & Biodiversity / Corrupt Vietnam officials & Cambodia timber theft Corrupt Vietnam officials & Cambodia timber theft 8th May, 2017 Corrupt Vietnam Gov’t officials cashing in on massive timber theft from Cambodia...
Global Witness has published a report that accuses EU companies of fuelling conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) and claims that the EU Member States failed to implement Regulation (EU) 995/2010 (the EUTR). Global...
This brief compares two Community Forestry Management Agreements (CFMAs) in Liberia – one supported by the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) and one supported by the USAID-funded Land Rights and Community Forestry Project...