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What's Happening from Environmental Building News
October 1, 2008
Illegal Timber Trade Targeted by New Law
The U.S. has taken a major step toward interrupting the importation of illegally harvested timber by amending a law used for more than a century to combat illegal trade in animals. The Lacey Act, created in 1900 to protect game, already protected some species of plants. In a June 2008 vote, Congress amended the Act to prevent the sale of all timber and other plant materials illegally harvested elsewhere. The U.S. is the world’s leading consumer of wood products, 10% of which (excluding paper and pulp), according to the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency, is at “high risk” of illegal origin....
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