But only about 15% of timber globally, and less than 2% of tropical timber, is covered by it.
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As the light fades, lorries without number plates arrive at the timber yards loaded with what locals say is illegally felled tropical timber.
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The answer is not to promote boycotts of tropical timber or insist, as the Forest Stewardship Council does, that the same forest management rules apply to planted softwood as rainforests.
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