ABSTRACT
Because of the transnational nature of the timber trade, local and national forest protection efforts have by and large failed to halt deforestation on a global scale. Protecting one region’s forest has often simply resulted in the destruction of another region’s forests. To prevent this transfer of harm, forest protection advocates are now looking beyond piecemeal conservation strategies. They are looking at ways to subvert the timber trade paradigm that has placed the world’s forest at risk.
