If you love the outdoors and love doing physical work to earn your living, then cutting wood and logging may be an ideal business for you. Having a talent for using a chainsaw is not all that's ...

More than 20,000 board feet of protected forest species, such as cedar and mahogany, are being lost from forests inhabited by Wampis communities every month, according to estimates by community ...

A new technique has been developed to tackle illegal logging by pinpointing the wood's origin to a smaller area than ever before (<100 km). Using chemical fingerprinting techniques (DART-TOFMS), they ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Call it CSI: Singapore. Unlike the Crime Scene Investigators from the popular TV series, these detectives are hired to look for evidence of rogue wood from stores increasingly ...

The illegal timber trade costs legal forest products industry actors billions of dollars in lost revenue, so governments and businesses are developing various tools to more effectively track timber.

Whether used to heat your house or build it, wood is often touted as carbon-neutral, especially by biofuel and lumber companies and even some environmentalists. The logic seems simple enough: Sure, ...

AMMAN — Work is under way to exempt imported wood from customs duties, in a bid to reduce deforestation, an official said. Stakeholders will be able to import wood, timber and coal at cost price, ...