Illegal timber trade & forest crime

The FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme partnered with the Asociación de Municipios de Honduras (AMHON) and the Instituto Nacional de Conservación y Desarrollo Forestal, Áreas Protegidas y Vida...

Worldwide, at least 41 million people work in the informal forest sector – more than three times the 12.5 million employed in formal forest sector-related businesses. In the informal forest sector, micro, small and medium-sized...

The ability to effectively assess the legality of timber is critical to ensuring that only legal or low risk timber enters responsible supply chains or markets. In line with commitments made under the Voluntary Partnership...

The FAO-EU FLEGT Programme has supported the Amerindian Peoples Association to design and implement Free, Prior, Informed Consent protocols as part of the Programme’s broader objective to ensure participation of forest communities...

The “Partners Against Wildlife Crime” Project is a EU-funded Action implemented through a consortium of 12 partner organizations. Its aim is to disrupt illicit supply chains from source to market for tiger, Asian elephant, Siamese...

The FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme has supported a number of Indonesian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to train and mentor 550 new independent forest monitors across Indonesia since 2017...

Learn more about the Programme's work in Guatemala and Ghana through the recently published success stories below: Guatemala: Supporting carpenters to purchase and use legal timber Ghana: Targeted trainings allow small and medium...

The Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Peru has released a report outlining a new and updated method to calculate illegal timber production and trade in the country. The report, completed with the support of the USAID Pro...

The videos were produced by the Service d'Appui aux Initiatives Locales de Developpement (SAILD), partner of the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme, and are available here: The supply of legal wood from community forests in Cameroon: https:/...

Consumer demand for high-value tropical hardwood products in Viet Nam has driven the illegal harvesting and import of endangered timber species from high-risk sources, presenting a challenge for Viet Nam’s national agenda on legal...