The Role of CITES in Curbing Illegal Timber Trade The world’s forests are being rapidly destroyed by a tidal wave of illegal logging, driven by an unregulated international trade in stolen wood. These forests are home to most of the species listed on the CITES Appendices. Though the international community has committed to take urgent
How Malaysia Smuggles Endangered Wood Indonesia is suffering rampant illegal logging which threatens to destroy its precious forests within a few years, and this devastation is being fuelled by uncontrolled demand for cheap tropical timber in consuming countries. Hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal Indonesian timber are estimated to be entering neighbouring Malaysia each