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WRI hosted the first “Washington Forest Legality Week” October 17-19, with the generous support and cooperation of the U.S. Forest Service. Forest Legality Week was intended to enable dialogue and inspire action and partnerships to more effectively implement and monitor timber trade legality and due diligence measures. It was a multi-stakeholder, international event, drawing more than 185 stakeholders from governments, the private sector, civil society, the scientific community, and service providers such as timber certification bodies. The meeting took place over three days and was designed to accommodate a range of side meetings and interactions convened by partner organizations.
The FLI team would like to thank all presenters, panelists, and attendees for joining us!
Resources
- Event Summary - Forest Legality Week October 17-19, 2017
- Illegal and Unsustainable: CITES Certified Rosewood Trade in Asia - Environmental Investigation Agency
- The Rosewood Racket - Environmental Investigation Agency
- Consumer markets for rosewood - How have China and Vietnam responded to the 2016 CITES listings? - Naomi Basik Treanor, Forest Trends
- CITES rosewood listings - Anne St. John, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- CITES Legal Acquisition Findings: Implications for Newly Listed Timber Species - Melissa Blue Sky, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
- Timber Traceability System Panel - Tobias Stäuble, Independent Consultant
- Illegal logging in Papua New Guinea and links to global supply chains - Rick Jacobsen, Global Witness
- Japan's Clean Wood Law: The Current Status - Mari Momii, Deep Green Consulting
- Demand-side Timber Legality Developments in Asia - Marigold Norman, Forest Trends
- Establishing China's Timber Legality Assurance Regime - Yanmei Lin, Vermont Law School; Sheng Sun, Vermont Law School
- Overview of CTLVS Development - Dong Ke, the Nature Conservancy
- Progress work in China - Michael Worrell, Timber Trade Federation
- The Open Timber Portal: Sneak Peak - Marie Vallée, World Resources Institute
- Timber Trade Information: Challenges and Solutions - Rupert Oliver, Forest Industries Intelligence
- Chatham House "Indicators of illegal logging and related trade" - Allison Hoare, Chatham House
- Sustainable Furnishings Council - Susan Inglis, Sustainable Furnishings Council
- BVRio Due Diligence and Risk Assessment System - Mauricio Moura Costa, BVRio
- Due Care Training Course for Wood Trade Professionals: Post Survey Results and Update - Cindy Squires, IWPA
- Developing an expert database and a reference database in GTTN - Tommi Suominen, EFI; Meaghan Parker-Forney, WRI
- Can We See the Wood for the Trees? Evaluation of US domestic wood forensic capacity and the application of forensic wood anatomy in product claim verification in the US forest products sector - Meaghan Parker, WRI; Alex Wiedenhoeft, U.S. Forest Service; John Simeone; Richard Soares, Center for Wood Anatomy and Research
- Global Timber Tracking Network - Jo Van Brusselen, European Forest Institute
- Role of MTE in Myanmar Timber Industry - Saw John Shwe Ba, Myanmar Ministry of Natural Resources And Environmental Conservation
- Stabilizing Myanmar's Production Forests - Tint Lwin Thaung, The Nature Conservancy
- Role of Communities in Production Forestry in Myanmar - Maung Maung Than, RECOFTC - The Center for People and Forests
