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Enforcement & Compliance Opportunities:
Financing

Sources of Investment for Forestry: Preventing Flows of Finance to Illegal Activities PDF document
Provides a discussion of the various sources of financing of illegal timber concessions.

Illegal Logging and Money Laundering: Analysis of the questionnaire to EU member states PDF document
Provides an analysis of the role money laundering plays in financing illegal logging.

Indonesia-CIFOR MOU on Combatting Money Laundering
The Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR) and the government of Indonesia recently signed a memorandum of understanding to combat money laundering as part of the larger struggle to end illegal logging.

More financers of illegal logging put under arrest PDF document
Recent efforts to combat illegal logging using anti-money laundering laws have been successful in Indonesia and elsewhere, as this article from the Jakarta Post describes.

 

Resources

The Problem of Illegal Timber

As much as 15 percent of the global timber trade may involve illegalities and corrupt practices.

Half of all the logging activities in ecologically vulnerable regions may be illegal.

Hotspots of illegal timber activity include the Amazon Basin, Central Africa, Southeast Asia and the Russian Federation.

Compliance and Enforcement Toolbox
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Enforcement & Compliance Opportunities
Verification

INECE Conference Proceedings
INECE-EIA Southeast Asia Workshop on Controlling Trade in Illegal Timber
Forest Policy in El Salvador (1998) PDF icon
Using Coordinated Enforcement to Protect Forests from Illegal Logging in the Philippines (1998) PDF icon
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