11 January 2013, Ttjonline news - Zambia is preparing to lift its ban on raw timber exports, according to media reports in the country. The country’s natural resources minister is reported to have revealed the news during the launch of Zambia’s tree-planting progamme. It is understood the ban will be lifted with conditions...

9 January 2013, Ttjonline news - The International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO) Council has been warned that the market is moving away from tropical timber. The warning came from European Timber Trade Federation secretary-general André de Boer at a meeting of ITTOs trade advisory group in Japan. Mr de Boer gave an...

1 February 2013, IISD news - The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UNEP Risø Centre have launched a report, titled Translating lessons learned from financing forest projects into national REDD+ strategy development and implementation. The reportuses examples from eight projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America to...

9 February 2013, Ttjonline news -As domestic demand remains sluggish, it’s time for British producers to look to markets in the Middle East and north Africa, says Charles Trevor, a consultant for American Softwoods With new year forecasts for the UK and European economies to remain in the doldrums at least for 2013 and...

6 February 2013, Ttjonline news -Finnish forest products group UPM wants its biocomposite material ForMi to be used beyond the furniture trade into the construction industry globally. The company is already predicting that ForMi, a cellulose reinforced fibre plastic composite material, will soon replace chipboard as the main...

29 January2013, NPR news -Chinas demand for natural resources is being felt in a big way in Cambodia. Illegal logging and economic land concessions are threatening Cambodias dwindling forests, which now echo the sound of chainsaws. Prey Lang forest — an eight-hour journey north and east of the capital, Phnom Penh — is one...