The Giving Trees - Fighting Corruption in the Timber Industry with Technology

"Illegal logging in southern Cameroon and the rest of the Congo Basin is a serious problem, contributing to the destruction of 2.5% of the world’s second largest rainforest over a single decade. Studies show that in two of Cameroon’s nearest neighbors, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), illicit logging could account for as much as 70% of the timber market. In fact, the entire greenbelt envelops countries where corruption is rife – India, China, Brazil, Peru, Indonesia, Ethiopia, DRC, Nigeria – and the links between corruption and over-logging have been widely studied by the likes of TI, U4, UNODC, and the World Bank."

Read the post by Elizabeth Loftus, in the Global Anticorruption Blog. http://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2015/01/05/the-giving-trees-fighting-corruption-in-the-timber-industry-with-technology/