This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 71%. (I'm a bot)
> "An assessment of legality risks in most of the world's timber-producing countries found PNG's timber to be among the riskiest, with potential illegalities including corruption and bribery in the issuance of permits, failure to follow the logging code of practice, and logging without the consent of indigenous landowners," the report says.
> Timber from PNG, Global Witness argues, should "Automatically be considered high risk".
> The Global Witness report argues that illegal logging in PNG not only destroys irreplaceable and ancient rainforests but also poses serious reputational and trade risks to China, by exposing its timber sector to commercial and legal sanctions, including import bans.
> PNG is China's single largest supplier of tropical logs, and sends almost all of its felled timber to China: 2.8m cubic metres of PNG timber was imported into China in 2017.
> "The scale of the PNG-China timber trade, the risks around it, and the importance of forests to the people of PNG make it critical to manage these resources responsibly and legally," the Global Witness report argues.
> Global Witness found evidence that another form of government-approved logging permit, timber rights purchases, have been extended in exchange for payments to the PNG Forestry Authority of PGK250,000.
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Cl1gHNwVEELvq0Ca2fW7wHmA8Dk7-YlYlyvxy4_QZBg/edit?usp=drivesdk
Link to FS source doc: https://www.fs.fed.us/forestmanagement/products/cut-sold/index.shtml
We are considering developing a small business that provides engineered timber products.
We have seen CLT products that require massive infrastructure to produce, and that is something that we aspire to. I was wondering if in the course of your work you know of in demand engineered timber products that would be suitable for a small business?
