Organization

Establishment

Involvement Area

Chatham House

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1920

・ Developing sustainable development projects to focus on legal and sustainable international trade of forest products from producing and consuming countries

・ Assessing the scale and effectiveness of the response to illegal logging and the related trade around the world

International Union for Conservation of Nature

IUCN

1948

・ Supporting countries to participate in combating illegal logging and related trade and promoting sustainable forest management

World Wild Fund

WWF

1961

・ Developing Global Forest Trade Network (GFTN)to prohibit illegal logging around the world

・ Driving the reliable forest certification

・ Protecting the biological diversity

・ Promoting the sustainable and harmonious development of man and nature

Greenpeace

／

1971

・ Developing forest project to protect the earth’s last remaining virgin forest and its people, animals and plants

International Institute of Environment and Development

IIED

1971

・ Continuous research on climate change, natural resource management and sustainable market issues to provide opinions and suggestions to the government, enterprises and international development agencies

Environmental Investigation Agency

EIA

1984

・ Focusing on illegal and destructive logging and forest destruction caused by illegal trade by environmental crime investigation and exposure

Global Witness

／

1993

・ Carrying out independent research and lobbying work to focus on regional conflicts, corruptions and human rights issues caused by illegal trade in forest products

Center for International Forestry Research

CIFOR

1993

・ Focusing on sustainable development of developing countries through strategic and applied research cooperation

・ Paying special attention to forest protection and people’s livelihood in tropical countries

Forest Trends

／

1999

・ Accomplishing the target of forest protection and sustainable development by means of market and multi-party cooperation

Global Environmental Institute

GEI

2004

・ Solving environmental problems guided with market

・ Realizing the comprehensively sustainable development

European Forest Institute

EFI

2007

・ Supporting EU and its members, developing countries and forestry stakeholder to implement the FLEGT Action Plan against illegal logging and related trade