Imported Timber and Wood Pulp Paper: Why Don’t We Know Where Our Wood Really Comes From?
When you unwrap a new pack of printer paper or hold a wooden cutting board, you probably don’t think about forests in tropical Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, or Southeast Asia. But many of these everyday products start life in distant forests. The big question is: can we trace them back to the exact forest they came from? In most cases today, the honest answer is no or at least not well enough. The Traceability Problem One major reason we can’t clearly...
