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Understanding Illegal Logging Issues

Illegal logging involves the harvesting, transportation, or sale of timber in violation of laws. It can include illegally gaining access to forests, extracting timber without permission or from protected areas, cutting protected tree species, or exceeding extraction limits. Illegalities may also take place during transport through illegal processing, export, fraudulent customs declarations, and tax avoidance. Illegal logging is widespread and causes significant environmental and economic damage, though identifying illegally sourced timber is difficult. Efforts to restrict timber imports from countries engaged in illegal logging face legal challenges under international trade regulations.

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Understanding Illegal Logging Issues

Illegal logging involves the harvesting, transportation, or sale of timber in violation of laws. It can include illegally gaining access to forests, extracting timber without permission or from protected areas, cutting protected tree species, or exceeding extraction limits. Illegalities may also take place during transport through illegal processing, export, fraudulent customs declarations, and tax avoidance. Illegal logging is widespread and causes significant environmental and economic damage, though identifying illegally sourced timber is difficult. Efforts to restrict timber imports from countries engaged in illegal logging face legal challenges under international trade regulations.

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I.

Introduction
Illegal logging is the harvest, transportation, purchase or sale of timber in violation of laws.

The harvesting procedure itself may be illegal, including using corrupt means to gain access to
forests; extraction without permission or from a protected area; the cutting of protected species; or
the extraction of timber in excess of agreed limits (see Box 1).
Illegalities may also occur during transport, such as illegal processing and export; fraudulent
declaration to customs; and the avoidance of taxes and other charges.
II.

Illegal logging

Illegal logging is a pervasive problem, causing enormous damage to forests, local


communities and to the economies of producer countries. Despite the economic importance of trade
in timber and forest products, major international timber consumer countries, such as the EU, have
no legal means to halt the import of illegally sourced forest products,[2]because the identification of
illegally logged or traded timber is technically difficult. Therefore, a legal basis for normative acts
against timber imports or other products manufactured out of illegal wood is missing. Scientific
methods to pinpoint the geographic origin of timber are currently under development. [3] Possible
actions to restrict imports cannot meet with WTO regulations of non-discrimination. They must
instead be arranged in bilateral agreements. TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network strives
to monitor the illegal trade of timber and provide expertise in policy and legal reviews. [4]
A.

CAUSES OF ILLEGAL LOGGING

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