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Cutting corners
Despite another damning report, huge strides are being made to cut out illegal logging
Bovis: a certified success?
Is Bovis as green as it claims when procuring timber? TiC reports.
Greenpeace slams illegal timber use
The "vast majority" of the construction sector continues to use illegal and unsustainable timber, a new report from the environmental group Greenpeace has said.
Timber's Renaissance
TiC hears how certified timber products are becoming key to the construction industry's agenda, once again.
Lost in translation
The tallest residential tower in Western Europe was revealed to contain illegally sourced hardwood earlier this year. But shouldn't the companies involved have known better? Ross MacMillan reports.
Certification: Seeing the wood for the trees
Sustainable timber has been under the media spotlight over the ast few years with onsite protests by Environmentalists. Richard Stirling talks to Bovis Lend Lease about a radical shake-up in its timber procurement policies.
Greenpeace Amazon forest claim
Greenpeace has poured scorn on the recent announcement by the Brazilian government that deforestation rates in the Amazon had dropped for the third year running.
Greenpeace backs B&Q China on illegal timber ban
Greenpeace has backed a move by B&Q to remove all products containing illegal timber from its 60 stores in China.
Greenpeace attacks Congo timber trade
International logging companies operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are causing social chaos and wreaking environmental havoc according to a damning new report launched by Greenpeace today.
Contractors take Timber Certification Onsite
This month will see the completion of the world's first construction project to be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. TiC talks to some of the people behind the green scheme and asks whether the project will have a ripple effect through the construction industry.
