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• Briefing Document / Feb. 7, 2013

  • Forest transparency & IFM
  • D.R. Congo
  • Liberia
  • Peru

  Annual Transparency Report 2012: Promised forest sector reforms failing to materialise

  Annual Transparency Report 2012: Public access to information remains a major obstacle to saving rainforests.

  
• Press Release / April 29, 2013

  • Forests
  • D.R. Congo
  • Liberia

  Africa’s logging permit crisis puts EU at risk of laundering illegal timber imports

  Click here to download this report Cliquez ici pour lire ce communiqué de presse en français 简体中文
• Report / April 29, 2013

  • Forests
  • D.R. Congo
  • Liberia

  Logging in the shadows: how vested interests abuse shadow permits to evade forest sector reforms

  Systematic abuse of small, poorly regulated logging permits in Africa by companies, forest officials and politicians is undermining efforts to fight deforestation and keep illegal timber out of the EU, says a new report by Global Witness.
• Press Release / May 13, 2013

  • Forests
  • D.R. Congo
  • Liberia

  非洲伐木许可发放混乱恐致非法木材流入欧洲

  English version 全球见证组织新近发布的报告显示，在非经营企业、当地林业主管官员和政客正在利用小型伐木许可发放上的监管漏洞为非法木材进入欧盟大开方便之门，阻碍非洲保护森林的进程。 这份名为《影中伐木》的报告揭示了在喀麦隆、刚果民主共和国、加纳和利比里亚等国家，伐木企业秘密地利用原本旨在推动小企业发展和满足当地人口对木材需求的伐木许可，进行大规模伐木作业的真相。这些“影子许可证”让大型伐木企业得以避开当地有关部门的监管，从大规模伐木作业中牟取暴利。
• Press Release / May 24, 2013

  • Forests

  Three quarters of Ghana’s logging permits could break Europe’s new timber law

  The majority of logging permits in use in Ghana will not fall within the legal definition the country has agreed with the European Union.

  
• Press Release / June 10, 2011

  • Forests
  • Liberia

  Placer les populations au centre de la législation du secteur forestier - Global Witness publie le second rapport annuel sur la transparence

  Global Witness publie aujourd’hui la seconde phase de son étude comparative, unique en son genre, sur la transparence dans le secteur forestier de quatre pays en développement. Le rapport relate des progrès dans la volonté des gouvernements de chaque pays d’engager la société civile dans les processus de décision, mais attire également l’attention de la communauté internationale sur le fait que l’accès à l’information sur la gestion des forêts reste grandement insuffisant.
• Press Release / June 10, 2011

  • Forest transparency & IFM
  • Liberia
  • Peru

  Annual Transparency Report 2010: Global Witness releases second annual report on forest transparency

  Report shows improvements in governments’ willingness to engage with civil society but sounds a warning that access to information on forest management remains hugely insufficient.

  
• Briefing Document / Oct. 9, 2012

  • Forests
  • Liberia

  VPA Transparency Gap 2012 - Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia

  African timber exporting countries failing to meet access to information commitments as lack of transparency threatens ground-breaking trade agreements with EU