Illegal Logging

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

International Convention

The socioeconomic determinants of legal and illegal smallholder logging: Evidence from the Ecuadorian Amazon

Cristian Vasco, Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador; Department of Forest Management, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Bolier Torres, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Km 2 ½ vía Tena, Puyo, Ecuador
Pablo Pacheco, Center for International Forestry Research(CIFOR), Jalan CIFOR Situ Gede, Bogor Barat 16115, Indonesia
Verena Griess, Department of Forest Management, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Ecuador

Paradojas de la preservación: Sierra de la Macarena y conflicto armado en Colombia. Análisis de riesgo ambiental en el posconflicto

Yeimy Caterine Daza Hernández, Nueva Granada Military University

Authorized to Steal: Organized Crime Networks Launder Illegal Timber from the Peruvian Amazon

Rolando Navarro Gómez, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)

Peru

Illegal Selective Logging and Forest Fires in the Northern Brazilian Amazon

Tiago M. Condé, State University of Roraima (UERR), Department of Forest Engineering, 69373-000 Rorainópolis, Brazil; Forest Management Laboratory (LMF), National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), 69060-001 Manaus, Brazil
Niro Higuchi, Forest Management Laboratory (LMF), National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), 69060-001 Manaus, Brazil
Adriano J. N. Lima, Forest Management Laboratory (LMF), National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), 69060-001 Manaus, Brazil

International Illegal Logging: Background and Issues

Congressional Research Service

Law enforcement and deforestation: Lessons for Indonesia from Brazil

Luca Tacconi, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Rafael J. Rodrigues, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Ahmad Maryudi, Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Gadjah Mada,Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Multiple Impacts of Illegal Logging: A key to Deforestation Over the Globe

Fatima Khalid, Department of Environmental Sciences, BahriaUniversity Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Babar Taj, Department of Chemistry, Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan; Department of Chemistry, University of Malaya, Kualalampur, Malaysia; Department of Chemistry, Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan
Asma Jamil, Department of Environmental Sciences, BahriaUniversity Islamabad, Pakistan
Huda Kamal, Department of Environmental Sciences, Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan
Tahira Afzal, Department of Environmental Sciences, BahriaUniversity Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Jamshed Iqbal, WWF Pakistan Firozpur road Lahore, Pakistan
Tahseenullah Khan, Department of Environmental Sciences, BahriaUniversity Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Ashiq, Agricultural Research Council, Pakistan
Ahmad Raheel, Department of Chemistry, Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Sharif, Department of Chemistry, Islamia UniversityBahawalpur, Pakistan

Peru: Deforestation in Times of Climate Change

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs(IWGIA)

Peru

Rainforest Mafias: How Violence and Impunity Fuel Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon

Human Rights Watch

Research trend: Bringing the private to the public: Private actors in timber legality systems

Carolina Serra, Laboratorio de Investigación de Sistemas Ecológicos y Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
Sarah L. Burns, Laboratorio de Investigación de Sistemas Ecológicos y Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

Argentina

Timber Laundering in Peru: The Mafia in the Middle

James Bargent, InSight Crime

Criminal activity and deforestation in LatinAmerica

Laura Bolton, Institute of Development Studies

DNA from wood - A simple approach facing a challenging matrix - A preliminary study

Renato T. F. Paranaiba, DNA Laboratory, National Institute of Criminalistics, Brazilian Federal Police. SAIS Quadra 7, Lote 23, Brasília, DF, 70610-200, Brazil; Natural Products Laboratory, School of Health Sciences, University of Brasília, 70910-900, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Brasília, DF, 70910-900, Brazil
Carlos B. V. Carvalho, DNA Laboratory, National Institute of Criminalistics, Brazilian Federal Police. SAIS Quadra 7, Lote 23, Brasília, DF, 70610-200, Brazil
Renata Silva Paiva, DNA Laboratory, National Institute of Criminalistics, Brazilian Federal Police. SAIS Quadra 7, Lote 23, Brasília, DF, 70610-200, Brazil
Bruno Rodrigues Trindade, DNA Laboratory, National Institute of Criminalistics, Brazilian Federal Police. SAIS Quadra 7, Lote 23, Brasília, DF, 70610-200, Brazil
Marcelo Garcia Barros, Environmental Laboratory, National Institute ofCriminalistics, Brazilian Federal Police. SAIS Quadra 7, Lote 23, Brasília, DF, 70610-200, Brazil
Elisa Palhares Souza, Forest Products Laboratory, Brazilian ForestService. SCEN Trecho 2, Brasília, DF, 70818-900, Brazil
Alexandre Bahia Gontijo, Forest Products Laboratory, Brazilian ForestService. SCEN Trecho 2, Brasília, DF, 70818-900, Brazil
Dâmaris Silveira, Natural Products Laboratory, School of HealthSciences, University of Brasília, 70910-900, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Brasília, DF, 70910-900, Brazil

Brazil

Effects of illegal logging on Amazonian medium and large-sized terrestrial vertebrates

Elildo A.R. Carvalho Jr., Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Mamíferos Carnívoros, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade; Faculty of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Science
Eloísa N. Mendonça, Reserva Biológica do Gurupi, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade
Alexandre Martins, Projeto Tamanduá
Torbjørn Haugaasen, Faculty of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Environmental Crime in the Amazon Basin: A Typology for Research, Policy, and Action

Adriana Abdenur, Igarapé Institute
Brodie Ferguson, Igarapé Institute
Ilona Szabo de Carvalho, Igarapé Institute
Melina Risso, Igarapé Institute
Robert Muggah, Igarapé Institute

Examining the Scale, Impacts of, and Response to, Illegal Logging in the Global Context

Cao Ngoc Anh

Geointelligence against Illegal Deforestation and Timber Laundering in the Brazilian Amazon

Franco Perazzoni, Social Sustainability and Development (SSD),Universidade Aberta, 1269-001 Lisboa, Portugal; Commissioner of Federal Police, Brasília 70610-902, Brazil
Paula Bacelar-Nicolau, Department of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Aberta, 1269-001 Lisboa, Portugal; Centre for Functional Ecology CEF, Universidade de Coimbra, 3000-453 Coimbra, Portugal
Marco Painho, NOVA Information Management School,Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1070-312 Lisboa, Portugal

How Columbia Regulators Became Purveyors of Illegal Wood

Cesar Molinares
Natalia Moreno

How Drug Cartels Moved into Illegal Logging in Mexico

Deborah Bonello

Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest

Isabel J. Jones, Hopkins Marine Station, Department of Biology,Stanford University
Andrew J. MacDonald, Department of Biology, Stanford University; Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara; Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
Skylar R. Hopkins, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara; Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University
Andrea J. Lund, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and , Stanford University
Zac Yung-Chun Liua, Hopkins Marine Station, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Nurul Ihsan Fawzi, Alam Sehat Lestari, Sukadana, West Kalimantan
Mahardika Putra Purba, Alam Sehat Lestari, Sukadana, West Kalimantan
Katie Fankhauser, Oregon Health and Science University, School of Public Health
Andrew J. Chamberlin, Hopkins Marine Station, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Monica Nirmala, Alam Sehat Lestari, Sukadana, West Kalimantan

Law Enforcement against Illegal Logging According to Law Number 18 of 2013 Concerning Prevention and Eradication of Forest Destruction

Soebagio Boerhan

Mangrove Forests Evolution and Threats in the Caribbean Sea of Colombia

Diego Andrés Villate Daza, Grupo de Investigaciones Marino Costeras GIMAC, Escuela Naval de Suboficiales ARC, Barranquilla 080002, Colombia
Hernando Sánchez Moreno, Laboratorio de Investigación en Microbiología, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Barranquilla 080002, Colombia
Luana Portz, Department of Civil and Environmental, Universidad De La Costa, Barranquilla 080002, Colombia
Rogério Portantiolo Manzolli, Department of Civil and Environmental, Universidad De La Costa, Barranquilla 080002, Colombia
Hernando José Bolívar-Anillo, Laboratorio de Investigación en Microbiología, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Barranquilla 080002, Colombia
Giorgio Anfuso, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain

Panama’s illegal rosewood logging boom from Dalbergia retusa

Ella Vardeman, University of Georgia; City University of New York, Graduate Center; The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), Institute of Economic Botany
Julie Velásquez Runk, University of Georgia; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

Peru's Patrones and Their Patrons

James Bargent

Predicción de la Deforestación en Caldas, Colombia: Un Enfoque Sociodemográfico mediante el Uso de Modelos Machine Learning

Alejandra Rivera Basto
Sebastian Pajoy Peña
José John Fredy González Veloza

Technology Solutions for Supply Chain Traceability in the Brazilian Amazon: Opportunities for the Financial Sector

Brodie Ferguson, Igarapé Institute
Júlia Sekula, Igarapé Institute
Ilona Szabó, Igarapé Institute

The Logging Barons of Catacamas, Honduras

Hector Silva Avalos

Use of Eucalyptus DNA profiling in a case of illegal logging

Madeline G. Roman, Department of Forensic Science, Sam HoustonState University, Huntsville, TX, USA
David Gangitano, Department of Forensic Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA
Alejandra Figueroa, Laboratorio de Criminalística Regional Temuco,Policía de Investigaciones de Chile, Región de La Araucanía, Chile
Jaime Solano, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Químicas,Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile
Leonardo Anabalón, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas yQuímicas, Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile
Rachel Houston, Department of Forensic Science, Sam HoustonState University, Huntsville, TX, USA

Framing Illegal Logging and its Governance Responses in Brazil - A Structured Review of Diagnosis and Prognosis

Daniela Kleinschmit

Framing Illegal Logging and Its Governance Responses in Brazil – A Structured Review of Diagnosis and Prognosis

Daniela Kleinschmit, University of Freiburg
Rafaella Ferraz Ziegert, University of Freiburg
Laura Walther, University of Freiburg

Illegal Logging and Associated Trade in Myanmar: Impacts of Government Measures to Address Illegal Logging

Forest Trends

Myanmar

Illegal logging, governance effectiveness and carbon dioxide emission in the timber‑producing countries of Congo Basin and Asia

Serge Mandiefe Piabuo, World Agroforestry Centre, Yaounde, Cameroon; Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Peter A. Minang, World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
Chupezi Julius Tieguhong, African Development Bank, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Divine Foundjem‑Tita, World Agroforestry Centre, Yaounde, Cameroon
Frankline Nghobuoche, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon

Institutional quality, economic development and illegal logging: a quantitative cross-national analysis

Matthias Boesch, Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics

Latin American and Caribbean Forests in the 2020s: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

Dan Nepstad, Earth Innovation Institute in San Francisco,California
Carlos A. Nobre, University of São Paulo’s Institute for Advanced Studies in São Paulo, Brazil; Project Amazonia 4.0
Brent Sohngen, Department of Agricultural, Environmental andDevelopment Economics at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio
Simone Carolina Bauch, Independent consultant, Brasilia, Brazil
Juan Robalino, University of Costa Rica, in San José,Costa Rica
Raoni Rajão, Department of Production Engineering at FederalUniversity of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Nathália Nascimento, Institute for Climate Studies at the University ofEspírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil
Bryan Finegan, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher EducationCenter (CATIE) in Turrialba, Costa Rica
Allen Blackman, Climate and Sustainable Development Sector in the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC
Julia Arieira, Institute for Climate Studies at the University ofEspírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil

Modeling Illegal Logging in Brazil

Bohan Chen, UCLA Department of Mathematics
Kaiyan Peng, UCLA Department of Mathematics
Christian Parkinson, UCLA Department of Mathematics
Andrea L. Bertozzi, UCLA Department of Mathematics,
Tara Lyn Slough, New York University
Johannes Urpelainen, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Organized Crime and the Environment in Latin America: A Fatal Encounter

Katie Jones, InSight Crime

Preventing illegal logging

Sarah T. Thompson, Rutgers Newark University
William B. McGrath, World Bank

Risk Analysis of Regions with Suspicious Illegal Logging and Their Trade Flows

Jiunn-Cheng Lin, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Council ofAgriculture
Jun-Yen Lee, Department of Bio-Industry and Agribusiness Administration, National Chiayi University, Chiayi 600, Taiwan
Wan-Yu Liu, Department of Forestry, National Chung HsingUniversity, Taichung 402, Taiwan; Innovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture, National Chung Hsing University,Taichung 402, Taiwan

Scalar politics and black markets: The political ecology of illegal rosewood logging in Ghana

Moses Mosonsieyiri Kansang, Department of Geography, George Washington University, 2036 H St. NW, Washington, DC 20052, United States
Dinko Hanaan Dinko, Department of Geography & the Environment, University of Denver, 2050 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, United States
Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Department of Geography & the Environment, University of Denver, 2050 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, United States
Godwin Arku, Department of Geography, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada
Isaac Luginaah, Department of Geography, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada

Taiga King

Earth Sight

The law is spider's web: An assessment of illegal deforestation in the Argentine Dry Chaco ten years after the enactment of the “Forest Law”

M. Vallejos, Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos ySistemas de Información, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, INIA La Estanzuela. Ruta 50 Km 11, Colonia, Uruguay
G. H. Camba Sans, Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Sistemas de Información, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a La Agricultura, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Argentina
S. Aguiar, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas yEcológicas Vinculadas a La Agricultura, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Argentina; Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
M. E. Mastrangelo, Grupo de Estudio de Ecosistemas y Paisajes Rurales, Universidad Nacional de Mar Del Plata, CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Mar Del Plata, Argentina
J. M. Paruelo, Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos ySistemas de Información, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, INIA La Estanzuela. Ruta 50 Km 11, Colonia, Uruguay; Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a La Agricultura, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Argentina

¿Usar o Perder Los Bosques? ExtracciónRegulada de Madera y Pérdida de Cobertura Forestal en Mexico

Allen Blackman, Inter-American Development Bank
Laura Villalobos, Inter-American Development Bank

Combatting Corruption in the Timber trade

National Whistleblower Center, National Whistleblower Center

Global governance approaches to addressing illegal logging: Uptake and lessons learned

Benjamin Cashore, The Open University

Haiti has more forest than previously reported: land change 2000–2015

Ose Pauleus

Illegal logging

U.S Customs and Border Protection, U.S Customs and Border Protection

Illegal logging and deforestation

USAID, USAID

Impacts of Illegal Logging Restrictions on China's Forest Products Trade

Alicia Robbins

Logging Concessions Enable Illegal Logging Crisis in the Peruvian Amazon

Matt Finer

Money laundering and illegal logging

National Whistleblower Center, National Whistleblower Center

Protect forest from industrial logging

National Whistleblower Center, National Whistleblower Center

The Chinese Timber Trade and the Logging of Peruvian Amazonia

Louis Putzel

What came out of the South American summit on protecting the amazon?

Kayan Tara