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Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a multilateral development bank. Both ADB and AFP share the common development agenda of promoting sustainable economic growth, environmental protection and regional cooperation.

• Mir J.  and A. Fraser.  Illegal logging in the Asia-Pacific region: an ADB perspective in: International Forestry Review 5 (3), 2003 [PDF, 110KB]

Center for International Forestry Research is an international research and global knowledge institution committed to conserving forests and improving the livelihoods of people in the tropics. Topics related to illegal logging are available.

Department for International Development, the UK Government department working to promote sustainable development and eliminate world poverty. Find out what it is doing to control illegal logging.

• Forest Law Enforcement: What is to be done? Speech from the Department for International Development by Hilary Benn MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development (13 September 2001)

• Options for intergovernmental action to help combat illegal logging and illegal trade in timber and forest products. A scoping study prepared for UK Department for International Development by Duncan Brack and Gavin Hayman.

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is an international campaigning organisation committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger and better the lives of rural people. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO promotes sustainable rural development and agriculture (including forestry).  Illegal logging activities in Forestry

• Reforming government policies and the fight against forest crime. Proceedings, Expert Meeting Rome, 14-16 January 2002.

• Strategies to reduce legal barriers in the forest sector (FAO/Global Witness), 2003.

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) WWF-TNC Alliance to Promote Forest Certification and Combat Illegal Logging in Indonesia [PDF, 400KB]

Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, based at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, undertakes formal research and education programs, a number of which relate to illegal logging issues.

Greenpeace, major environmental NGO, has a forests campaign.

International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO) is currently undertaking a series of studies on illegal logging and on timber trade statistics. 
Volume 12 No. 1 of the ITTO newsletter, Tropical Forest Update, focused on illegal logging and forest crime.

Japan Federation of Wood-Industry Associations (JFW)   features information in Japanese and English 

MUI SUPPORTS THE ERADICATION OF ILLEGAL LOGGING. The Indonesian Council of Islamic Scholars (MUI) recently stated they are very concerned about the wide spread practice of illegal logging in Indonesia and support the Ministry of Forestry’s efforts in eradicating these practices. The MUI stated that they also hope the Ministry of Forestry’s efforts will be implemented on a long-term basis and in coordination with all relevant stakeholders. [Download full text, ZIP, 321K]

The Royal Institute of International Affairs is a central point of information on all aspects of the current international debate around the control of illegal logging and forest crimes

• Mailing list of www.illegal-logging.info provides invitations to open meetings and latest papers, at

United States of America launches President Bush's Initiative against illegal logging.

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