Providing access to more tools to help solve forest crimes

Worth almost USD 152 billion a year, the illegal timber industry accounts for up to 90% of tropical deforestation in some countries and attracts some of the world’s biggest organised crime groups. It causes serious economic, environmental and social damage and fuels conflict in forest regions where criminal gangs compete for available market and with […]

Love in the Molecular World: DNA fingerprinting to halt forest crime

By Ken Hickson for Focus on Forests Love at first microscopic sight.  That’s definitely one way of describing how Dr Arif Malik felt about getting his first job. “I’ve always dreamed of having a job where I could apply all the molecular techniques that I’ve learned to something that could actually make a difference in […]