Illegal Logging and Related Timber Trade - Dimensions, Drivers, Impacts and Responses: A Global Scientific Rapid Response Assessment Report

6 MULTIPLE AND INTERTWINED IMPACTS OF ILLEGAL FOREST ACTIVITIES

 More understanding is required of the indirect and cu- mulative impacts from illegal logging and related tim- ber trade, in order to develop policy mechanisms to ad- dress them and to mitigate their negative impacts in the longer term. Understanding better the social and political interactions among actors involved in illegal logging can contribute to better identify leakage and laundering effects, so that more effective monitoring of these processes can be put in place.

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