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Enforcement & Compliance Opportunities:
Indicators & Forest Monitoring

Emerging Best Practices for Combating Illegal Activities in Forest Sector PDF icon
Vigilance Verde, a joint public-private initiative in Ecuador, increased the amount seized timber five-fold in its first year with 50% of the associated costs of the monitoring scheme paid for by auctioning off seized illegal timber.

The G8 Action Programme on Forests
The G8 Action Programme on Forests will rely heavily on satellite remote sensing technologies to map the remaining forests in Africa and elsewhere and monitor logging concessions.

Using Satellite Imagery to Detect Illegal Logging: GFW's Experience in Cameroon
A case study on the use of the use of satellite imagery, given by Susan Minnemeyer at Forest Transparency Workshop, Global Forest Watch, Washington D.C. May 2002.

Indicators to monitor progress of forest law enforcement and governance initiatives to control illegal practices in the forest sector
This paper offers a preliminary and conceptual look at the use of indicators to evaluate forest sector law enforcement and governance. Corrupt and illegal practices are widespread in the forest sector, they pose a major threat to the sustainable management of forest resources, and hamper economic growth, equitable income distribution, and efforts at poverty reduction.
Printed in International Forestry Review 5(3), 2003; Republished in Making Law Work (2005).

 

 

 

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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
INECE, Principles of Enforcment
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INECE, Deforestation Support Package PDF icon


Enforcement & Compliance Opportunities
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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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