The Congo Basin is home to the second largest rainforest on Earth, and holds up to 25% of the world's forest-based carbon. Unchecked deforestation in the region here not only threatens the livelihoods of over 70 million people, it could also have a devastating impact on the planet’s climate.
Timber production...
Road to legality
15 June 2016
15 June 2016
This film provides valuable information on the ongoing implementation of the FLEGT Action Plan along the timber supply chain - from harvest in the tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin, to consumption in the EU. Through the conclusion of Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) with the EU, timber producing countries commit...
Stories from the ground
15 June 2016
15 June 2016
Sorious Samura introduces a video explaining the importance of the EU's Action Plan to improve the way forests are owned and managed and ensure that timber imported into the EU is legal.
This video presents the FAO-FLEGT-EU initiative implemented in San Martìn (2015) to monitor forests by indigenous people, in order to prevent and contrast illegal logging. These forests indeed are under severe threaten by agriculture expansion in the region. The project is expected to strongly enhance forest governance for forest people,...
The overall objective of the study is to explore the current effectiveness of certification and verification schemes in Southeast Asia to strengthen the legality and sustainability of future forest management, wood processing and related trade. It analyzes how the linkages among credible certification and verification schemes and the enforcement of...
ITTO CITES Ramin protect and prosper
11 August 2014
11 August 2014
This video is about the sustainable management of ramin (Gonystylus spp.) in Indonesia.
The Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) process in Central and West Africa: from theory to practice
08 August 2014
08 August 2014
Seven years after the first negotiations were initiated, the first FLEGT licence has yet to be issued. The implementation of the agreements has turned out to be more complicated than anticipated; in turn, a number of challenges must be addressed and major efforts must still be made. Even so, the...
Illegal logging and associated trade in illegally sourced wood products are important causes of deforestation and forest degradation in many developing countries. Forest destruction in turn contributes up to 20 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions. Illegal logging also robs cash-strapped governments of vital revenues, has a devastating impact...
The present study is aimed at offering input to the FAO/ITTO study Capacity Building for Law Compliance in the Forest Sector. It addresses directly the first objective of this project, that of producing “guidelines for improving law compliance in the forest sector”, and also its third stated objective, to “create...
Law compliance: Bolivia case study
09 May 2014
09 May 2014
In Bolivia, dramatic changes in the forestry regulations have been implemented seeking to arrest illegality and informality within the forestry sector, and to enable clearer legal frameworks and institutional conditions for promoting the introduction of good practices for forest management. Yet, illegal logging is still a relevant issue in Bolivia...