How to Identify Forest Crime - Africa - English - page 15

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A worker cuts illegally logged timber at a sawmill.
• Oversized timber in sawmills or other processing spots
• Timber of protected species (probably high-density timber) in sawmills
or other processing spots
• Overstock accumulated in sawmills or other processing spots
• Failure to make a dent with a sharp object into a piece of timber. If it is
high density timber, it is possibly old growth rainforest timber
ILLEGAL LOGS
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IDENTIFY
Sawmills may have illegally logged protected species in storage.
PROCESSING
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