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About GFTN
GFTN is WWF's initiative to eliminate illegal logging and transform the global marketplace into a force for saving the world's valuable and threatened forests.
By facilitating trade links between companies committed to achieving and supporting responsible forestry, the GFTN creates market conditions that help conserve the world’s forests while providing economic and social benefits for the businesses and people that depend on them. The GFTN considers independent, multi-stakeholder-based forest certification a vital tool in this progression and helps infuse the principles of responsible forest management and trade practices throughout the supply chain. Learn how it works...
GFTN Participants...
- emcompasses more than 311 participating companies
- represent 16% of all forest products traded internationally every year, with combined annual sales of US$66 billion.
- are engaged in 191 trading deals with other GFTN participants
- manage over 20.2 million ha of certified forests and 7.2 million ha in progress to certification
- trade 16% of the volume of internationally trade timber and fibre
- employ over 2.5 million people globally
- support 42,599 local families through community operations
How to join the GFTN?
GFTN participants are communities, companies, and organizations that have a significant impact on valuable and threatened forests. Current GFTN participants include multinational timber companies, communities managing traditional forest lands, construction companies and those who produce the lumber they use, manufacturers producing specialty products for niche markets, retail chains, architects, and family-owned distribution companies.
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GFTN Updates
GFTN Quarterly Newsletter, November 2009
Major highlights include:
* Enabling Markets to Work for Forets: GFTN at the World Forestry Congress 2009.
* Africa: Study Reveals Importance of Certification in Survival of Great Apes
* B&Q Secures ...
A Special GFTN Announcement
A message from WWF's Forest Director: I would like to inform GFTN supporters that Richard McLellan has stepped down as the Head of GFTN to take up a position in WWF’s Conservation Communications Unit. I would like ...
Enabling Markets to Work for Forests
WWF and the GFTN attended the XIIIth World Forestry Congress, a week-long dialogue held October 18-23, 2009 in Buenos Aires, organized by the government of Argentina in collaboration with the Forestry Department of the United Nations Food and ...