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China’s log imports fall sharply

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2016

Review finds EU plan to curb illegal logging has had little success

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Feb 2016

Threatened West African rosewood species gets CITES protection

Mike Gaworecki 16 Feb 2016

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

John Cannon 11 Feb 2016

Photos: Can helping local people save an embattled Nigerian park?

Lawal Sani Kona 20 Jan 2016

International embargo on exports of Madagascar’s precious woods extended

Mike Gaworecki 19 Jan 2016

Countries call for new CITES protections for rosewood species

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jan 2016

Is eco-certification the solution to forest destruction?

Saul Elbein 14 Jan 2016

China’s demand for rosewood is destroying forests in Southeast Asia and, increasingly, In Africa

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2015

The most recent seizure shows the scale and extent of illegal timber trafficking in Peru

Ruxandra Guidi 14 Dec 2015

Romania struggles to turn the tide of illegal logging

Greg Norman 4 Dec 2015

DNA and beyond: The challenges of identifying wood and addressing illegal timber products

Caleb O'Brien 25 Nov 2015

EU scheme failing to stop timber trafficking, finds audit

John Cannon 20 Nov 2015

Trouble in paradise: Wakatobi’s ‘sea gypsies’ adjust to life in a marine park

Melati Kaye 20 Nov 2015

Singapore court: illicit timber trafficking through our ports not our problem

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Nov 2015

‘A critical gift’: Peru rejoices as a new national park is born

Apoorva Joshi, Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Nov 2015

Forest rangers killed in Cambodia while patrolling for illegal loggers

Mike Gaworecki 9 Nov 2015

Indonesia losing billions from illegal logging

Jonathan Vit 9 Nov 2015

Leaked report reveals massive illegal logging in Laos

Ethan Harfenist 6 Nov 2015
Boat loaded with wood on the Tambopata River, Peru

Perimeter Defense: Four Technologies for Detecting and Preventing Illegal Logging

Arpitha Kodiveri, Jonathan Mason, Meaghan Parker, Loretta Cheung 5 Nov 2015

Loggers destroying giant panda habitat, says Greenpeace

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Nov 2015

Private conservation lands under threat in Peruvian Amazon

Barbara Fraser 30 Oct 2015

US judge accepts plea deal from Lumber Liquidators over Lacey Act violations

Mike Gaworecki 22 Oct 2015

Illegal wood imports to US are way down, but still worth as much as $3b a year

Mike Gaworecki 15 Oct 2015

Illegal logging decimating birds in Ghana: ‘These numbers are shocking’

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2015

Lumber Liquidators pays $13.2M to end illegal logging probe

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2015

Alarm bells over Indonesia’s plan to reduce green timber certification

Sapariah Saturi 7 Oct 2015

Lombok’s blooming community forest bears fruit and raises livelihoods – and haj trips

Jay Fajar 7 Oct 2015
Armand Marozafy dismantling a poacher's trap within Masoala National Park in Madagascar in 2004. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Nature guide freed in Madagascar 5 months after arrest for exposing rosewood trade

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Sep 2015

Illegal timber trade destroying Myanmar’s forests uncovered in new report

Mike Gaworecki 18 Sep 2015

Activist arrested while illegal loggers chop away at Madagascar’s forests

Rowan Moore Gerety 15 Sep 2015
Illegal logging in Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula, a protected area where rosewood is commonly targeted

5 African countries agree to combat illegal timber trade

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2015

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