Rosalie Parker compiled the following links to press reports on forest corruption while a student in Peter Eigen's class at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in the autumn of 2001. Jonathan Binder updated the links in the autumn of 2002.Yeqing Zheng updated the links in the spring of 2005.
Of course, this list is not intended to be all-inclusive. If you find a new resource or a faulty link, please let us know.
Another page of links on this site covers organizations and their working papers and reports related to forests and corruption.
Richard Black, "G8 to tackle illegal timber trade", BBC News, March 18, 2005
No Authur, "African treaty to protect forest", BBC News, February 5, 2005
No Authur, "Illegal wood seized across Spain", BBC News, October 14, 2004
Kate Eshelby, "Concern over Congo logging", BBC News, August 16, 2004
Jonathan Kent, "Jakarta to crack down on loggers", BBC News, July 2, 2004
Jonathan Kent, "Malaysia and Indonesia in log row", BBC News, February 13, 2004
No Authur, "Sumatra illegal loggers slammed", BBC News, November 5, 2003
Rachel Harvey, "'Corruption' in Indonesia logging war", BBC News, January 14, 2003
No Author, "Cambodia ditches logging watchdog", BBC News, January 29, 2003
Paul Brown and Roger Harrabin, "US tries to sink forests plan", The Guardian, March 16, 2005
Claudia McMurray, "US is working to end illegal logging", The Guardian, March 21, 2005. Claudia McMurray is US deputy assistant secretary of state for environment. The letter is a response to the previous article "US tries to sink forests plan", March 16, 2005.
John Aglionby, "Timber smuggling ring exposed", The Guardian, February 18, 2005
John Aglionby, "Fishermen driven to illegal logging as pulp factory poisons river." The Guardian, June 26, 2001.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, "The Timber Mafia," Four Corners, July 29, 2002. [A set of web pages, including interview transcripts and videos, concerning illegal logging, with a focus on Indonesia. Includes links to other sites.]
Paul Brown, "Forest Corruption Report Covered Up," The Guardian, May 29, 2000.
Yokoto Hajime, "Structured Corruption Involving Local Interests and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries [of Japan], " SEKAI, March 2000.
David Loyn, "Battling Cambodia's illegal timber trade." BBC News. May 16, 2002. (This page contains links to other BBC stories on illegal logging in the Asia-Pacific region.)
Natalya Shulyakovskaya, "Wood Wars: Corruption Threatens the Welfare of Siberian Forests," St. Petersburg Times, February 15, 2000. Apparently available through the newspaper's archive, a pay-per-use service.
Irina Sandul & Claire Bigg, "Russian Forestry Still a Thieves' Market." The Russia Journal, undated (noted on site on March 9, 2002).
No Author "Solomon Island, Forest Crisis Documented by Australian Radio," Worldwide Forest/Biodiversity Campaign News, Jan 27, 1996.
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