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She is Director of Programs at Keystone and the chairperson of the Non Timber Forest Produce Exchange Programme, a network of NGOs across South and Southeast Asia.
The timber quality produced will be the overriding commercial factor for the near future [ 18], and usually relates to the amount, color and durability of the heartwood [ 4].
Far more than half of the wood from the two biggest timber producing regions of Brazil probably comes from illegal sources, it says, citing figures from the Brazilian environmental research NGO, Imazon, that 78% of the wood shipped from the vast Amazonian state of Pará is illegally felled, while the figure is 54% in Mato Grosso.
Up to 80% of all the timber produced in Brazil is illegally felled.
The city is also a distribution centre for rice and timber produced in the surrounding region.
The city is a trade centre for the coffee, fruits, and timber produced in the region.
Most of the timber produced for the domestic market and for export is from the greenheart tree.
Now, the town's enterprises employ 300 people who harvest timber, produce wooden furniture and care for the woodlands, and Ixtl?has grown to become the gold standard of community forest ownership and management, international forestry experts say.
Several schemes are aimed at letting people make a living from the forests without ruining them (eg, through eco-tourism), or encouraging more responsible use of wood (eg, a new scheme launched this month to certify timber produced by "sustainable forestry" methods).
Kenyasi is a major cocoa and timber producing area.
They showed that for nine major tropical timber producing countries, emissions from logging were on average equivalent to about 12% of those from deforestation.
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