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Enforcement & Compliance Opportunities:
Verification Systems

The Asia Forest Partnership

The Asia Forest Partnership (AFP) is collaborative initiative of inter-governmental organizations, civil society and government. Among the objectives of the initiative is the formation of a labeling and tracking system to verify the legal origin of forest products.

Action Plan for Cooperation in Combatting Illegal Logging between Japan and Indonesia

This action plan for cooperation in combating illegal logging and illegally logged timber and wood products, signed by the governments of Japan and Indonesia, sets, among other things, the long term goal of establishing a legal verification system.

The Kimberley Process

The Kimberley Process is a joint government, international diamond industry and civil society initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds (those diamonds mined in countries enduring civil strife) and employs an extensive labeling and verification scheme which may be a useful model to use to track forest products.

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

INECE, Principles of Enforcment

INECE, Multimedia Inspections

INECE, Deforestation Support Package