Search Results: 'ITTO'

ITTO on track
08 December, 2007
The ITTO is funding pilot studies for smaller companies to establish timber tracking systems. Amha bin Buang, assistant director (economic information and market intelligence), reports

ITTO pledges more funding
05 December, 2007

Brazil aims to tap Amazonas forest potential
04 December, 2007

ITTO commits funds to PNG forests
28 November, 2007

Returning officer
27 October, 2007
SK Tham has taken up a new post in Malaysia. He talks to Keren Fallwell about the developments he saw during his 12 years in the Malaysian Timber Council’s London office

ITTO to develop sustainable mahogany strategy
18 September, 2007

Asian slowdown impacts more sharply
15 September, 2007
The slower Asian market is starting to weaken prices for logs and plywood

Asian slowdown impacts more sharply
15 September, 2007
The slower Asian market is starting to weaken prices for logs and plywood

Fine collections would help fight illegal logging
05 September, 2007

Brazilian mills face closure
21 August, 2007

ITTO calls for CFE support
26 July, 2007
Governmental action is needed to ensure that community forest enterprises (CFEs) are successful, a new report by the International Tropical Timber Organisation ITTO) states.

Forest focus falls on Brazil
30 June, 2007
The impact community forest management schemes have on the world's poorest countries is to be discussed at a meeting of entrepreneurs and policy makers from Asia, Africa and Central and South America.

ITTO backs timber protection
22 May, 2007
Any measures designed to slow the destruction of tropical forests will have the full backing of the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO), it has said.

ITTO calls for PNG action
17 May, 2007
The International Tropical Timber Organisaton (ITTO) has recommended that Papua New Guinea (PNG) establishes a national forest inventory in order to help it implement an effective national forest plan and ensure concessions are correctly allocated.

Greenpeace targets ITTO
10 May, 2007
Greenpeace activists have staged a protest at a hotel where delegates from the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO) were staying in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Great expectations
14 April, 2007
Woodworking machinery and equipment companies are gearing up for the Ligna show

Special concession
03 February, 2007
Achieving FSC certification in the Congo Basin is no mean feat. Rupert Oliver of Forest Industries Intelligence explains the lengths that CIB went to to make it a reality

ITTO seeks pilot tracking scheme trialists
01 February, 2007
The International Tropical Timber Organisation is inviting interested participants to take part in pilot schemes to assess the feasibility of adopting timber tracking systems.

Floods drive up Malaysian timber prices
26 January, 2007
The price of Malaysian timber products has been driven sharply up by massive flooding in the region following incessant rain, the International Tropical Timber Organisation said.