date:Apr 02, 2013
orestry often focuses on a few species that are commercially viable in the marketplace. So while there may seem to be plenty of fish in the sea and plenty of trees in the forest, illegal extraction can wreak havoc on, and often targets, the most commercially valuable species. In the criminal context, illegal, unregulated, and underreported does not mean unorganized.
Phil Guillery, the systems integrity director at the Forest Stewardship Council International, demonstrated this point when he sai