Media coverage on "Illegal Logging and Related Timber Trade" report

The report "Illegal Logging and Related Timber Trade - Dimensions, Drivers, Impacts and Responses - A Global Scientific Rapid Response Assessment Report" presents the results of the fifth global scientific assessment undertaken by the GFEP programme. The report set out to gain deeper understanding of the meaning of illegal logging and related timber trade, its scale, drivers and consequences. It provides a structured synthesis of available scientific and expert knowledge on illegal logging and associated timber trade while adding to existing studies and reports by sharing new insights, including a criminology perspective and new information about timber and timber product trade, drug trade, flows as well as exploring future policy options and governance responses.

Media coverage

CIFOR:
http://blog.cifor.org/47661/illegal-logging-a-russian-nesting-doll

The Mainichi - Japan's National Daily since 1922:
http://mainichi.jp/articles/20170109/k00/00m/040/079000c

Mongabay:
https://news.mongabay.com/2016/12/illegal-logging-shows-little-sign-of-slowing/ 

Eco-Business:
http://www.eco-business.com/news/illegal-logging-shows-little-sign-of-slowing/

DownToEarth:
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/india-is-third-largest-importer-of-illegally-logged-wood-iufro-56620?platform=hootsuite

Radio report, German WDR: 
http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr5/wdr5-leonardo-top-themen/audio-illegale-abholzungen-schreiten-vor-allem-in-asien-voran-100.html

Bioeconomy in BW (Baden-Württemberg):
https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/de/fachbeitrag/aktuell/oekosystemdienstleister-wald-facetten-und-folgen-des-holzeinschlags