Search Results: 'WWF'

Lacey Act amendments
16 November, 2007

FPAC sets carbon-neutral target
12 November, 2007

TRAFFIC report highlights Chinese improvement
10 September, 2007

EIA calls for unilateral response to illegal timber
26 July, 2007
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has called on the UK government to unilaterally legislate against the sale of illegal timber on its shores.

Western demand squeezes natural resources
10 May, 2007
Western growth in demand for timber and wood-based products has played a greater role in tropical forest depletion than China's timber trade according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

WWF releases best practice DVD
03 May, 2007
The WWF has released a video designed to promote the use of responsible practices in the forest products industry.

UK tops table in fight against illegal logging
02 May, 2007
The UK is the top performing country in Europe when it comes to fighting illegal logging, WWF says in a new report.

Dutch housing associations commit to sustainable timber sourcing
03 April, 2007
WWF has welcomed a commitment by housing associations in Holland to build 100,000 houses in the next five years using Forest Stewardship Council-certified timber from Borneo.

DNA tests to help combat illegal timber trade
03 April, 2007
DNA testing is to be used to identify the source of timber entering Australia from Indonesia.

Cymao mends green fences
17 March, 2007
A leading Malaysian plywood supplier to the UK has strengthened its environmental credentials following suspension of its FSC certificate in 2006.

HSBC backing draws criticism
12 March, 2007
A London-based NGO Global Witness has blasted HSBC for helping Samling, the Malaysian-based timber firm, raise US$280m through an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

TTF describes WWF report methodology as “nonsense”
02 February, 2007
Methodology used in a WWF report to calculate the level of illegal wood entering the UK has been dismissed as “statistical nonsense” by the Timber Trade Federation (TTF).

WWF urges UK to cut out illegal timber
01 February, 2007
A new WWF illegal logging report has named the UK as the world's third largest importer of illegal timber, spending £712m a year on illegal wood.

African timber producers meet European buyers at Racewood
11 January, 2007
More than 46 tropical timber producers from eight African nations networked with 35 European timber companies at the latest Racewood business forum in Ghana.

Timber help for tsunami survivors
11 January, 2007
More than 45,000m3 of timber has so far been delivered to Aceh and Nias in Indonesia to help rebuild homes destroyed by the Asian tsunami.

PEFC receives green light in CPET
06 January, 2007
The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC) has been given a clean bill of health in the government's review of forest certification schemes.