Month: August 2016

EU imports of tropical sawnwood have continued to recover slowly in 2016 from the depths of recession in early 2013. There was a particularly significant surge in trade in the second quarter of this year, notably from Cameroon. (Chart 1).

Chatham House, the UK-based think tank, hosted the annual “Illegal logging Update” meeting in London in June, a two-day event with participants from a range of producer and consumer countries in both tropical and temperate regions – mainly government, NGOs, academics, consultants, trade association and corporate representatives.