Post by Jade Saunders

A great opportunity for Victor Deklerck to discuss with west African colleagues and stakeholders the unique role that World Forest ID's science and data can play in tracing Ghanaian timbers back to source, underpinning an effective national control system and, critically, differentiating them from other regional timbers in processing countries - to ensure that any available market preference has a chance of *actually* benefitting those that steward their forests. Not only a fascinating endeavour to chew over at a scientific symposium, but an essential component of any credible approach to marketing responsible tropical forest products in an opaque global trading system. Chris Beeko Marieke Wit Rupert Oliver Ben Gunneberg David Hopkins Hugh Speechly Phuc To Julia Falconer, OBE Jake Sales-Dupont Sheam Satkuru