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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 />

(continues on the following page)<br />

NOTE 5.5:ADDRESSING ILLEGAL LOGGING AND OTHER FOREST CRIME 199

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