Forests Sourcebook - HCV Resource Network
Forests Sourcebook - HCV Resource Network
Forests Sourcebook - HCV Resource Network
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ANNEX 5.5B<br />
TYPICAL CONTEXTS OF ILLEGAL LOGGING: DRIVERS AND POTENTIAL RESPONSES<br />
Typical contexts Potential drivers Potential responses Type<br />
(motive, means, opportunity)<br />
Illegal logging<br />
Illegal logging • People unable to meet their basic needs • Legalize illegal use or simplify regulations P<br />
for securing subsistence<br />
concerning access to public forest or wildlife<br />
resources<br />
• Create opportunities for income generation P<br />
• Lack or high cost of alternative energy • Offer alternatives to fuelwood as source of energy P<br />
Small-scale illegal • Poverty • Create opportunities for income generation P<br />
logging to enhance • Complex legal procedures related to • Reduce bureaucracy and fees associated with P<br />
livelihoods by harvesting and access to forest resources legal timber harvesting<br />
• people without legal • Disputes over land tenure rights • Clarify land tenure, consider establishing local P<br />
access to forest land<br />
tenure of forest land<br />
• managers or owners • Poorly organized, under-resourced, and • Strengthen forest law enforcement D+S<br />
of community forests corrupt forest law enforcement • Improve internal control on law enforcement staff D+S<br />
• private forest owners • Corrupt community leaders • Improve internal control in communities D+S<br />
• Criminal groups organizing illegal logging by • Strengthen cooperation with police force and D+S<br />
recruiting rural poor<br />
judiciary and target the organizers or financiers<br />
behind these activities<br />
• Inefficient legal procedures • Amend forest-related legislation and penal code P<br />
• Use money laundering and asset forfeiture laws<br />
Large-scale commercial • Poorly motivated staff in public forest • Reorganize public forest administration to P<br />
illegal logging administration or enterprises increase staff motivation<br />
• High cost of legal timber • Reduce bureaucracy and fees associated with P<br />
legal timber harvesting<br />
• Capacity of wood processing industries • Embark on phased program of capacity reduction P<br />
exceeding legal supply<br />
in wood-processing industries<br />
• Increase supply by establishing plantations or P<br />
adjusting forest management regulations<br />
• Export demand insensitive to legality • Collaborate with governments and private sector P<br />
of timber<br />
in importing countries to increase demand for<br />
legal timber and deter imports of illegal timber<br />
• Poorly organized and corrupt forest law • Increase resources and enhance independence D+S<br />
enforcement and auditing system<br />
of forest law enforcement<br />
• Enhance effectiveness of financial audits on D<br />
public forest administration or enterprises<br />
• Provide support to patrolling networks among D<br />
private forest owners<br />
• Use anti-money-laundering laws<br />
• Inadequate monitoring data on timber flows • Promote independent forest monitoring D<br />
and origin of timber • Improve data management and transparency P<br />
in public forest administration or enterprises<br />
• Promote responsible business practices (chain-ofcustody<br />
systems, certification) in private industries<br />
• Inefficient legal procedures • Strengthen cooperation with police force and S<br />
judiciary<br />
• Provide owners or managers of community and S<br />
private forests with legal services<br />
• Amend forest-related legislation and penal code P<br />
Conflict timber • High cost of armed conflict • Focus on conflict resolution and management P<br />
• Poor control of timber imports in recipient • Improve controls on origin of timber D<br />
countries • Promote international collaboration in sanctioning S<br />
• Ineffective international sanctions conflict timber<br />
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NOTE 5.5:ADDRESSING ILLEGAL LOGGING AND OTHER FOREST CRIME 199