During the past several years, von Bismarck and his colleagues have been campaigning for a new way to control timber imports: an amendment to a curious law called the Lacey Act, which, for more than a century, has been a cornerstone of nature protection in America.
The Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia) monitors western quoll populations in the Jarrah Forest as part of its faunal management programs, as well as ongoing research into fox control, timber harvesting, and prescribed burning.
The private owners of more than four-fifths of Finland's forests effectively control domestic timber prices; nonetheless, forest products (notably paper) are a major source of the country's export earnings.
But Kenyan environmental groups contend that powerful politicians control the timber companies, just as they control the dairies, the tea farms and other engines of Kenya's economy.
In the green heart of Africa, the Congo basin, countries are working together to control illegal timber trade and conserve the world's second largest rainforest.
Willow, shrubs and trees of the genus Salix, family Salicaceae, mostly native to north temperate areas and valued for ornament, shade, erosion control, and timber.
Mr. Abdul Taib, she asserts, has used his control over timber concessions to enrich himself and his relatives, who, she says, park many of their assets overseas.
Such practices can include planting or natural regeneration, e.g., through coppice or natural or sown seed, combined with weed control and timber stand improvement practices to control species composition, tree size and quality; hereafter called "conventional" forest management.
Many forest managers currently use thinning and prescribed fire to re-create forest conditions that existed before the advent of wide-scale fire suppression, thus opportunities exist to promote morel crops while achieving fire control and timber production goals.
In particular, improvements in the collection and reporting of export and import data would be improved should the Forestry Development Office take control of timber importing and exporting.
To maintain this position of control over timber, a TEO actor may be uninterested in informing the community about potential funding opportunities that focus on capacity building, as occurred in several case study communities.
