The Last Stand of the Gorilla

Wood exports from Congo Basin

United States

China

Netherlands

Belgium

UK

Swiss Confederation

Germany

France

Italy

Turkey

Portugal

Morocco

Spain

Million US dollars Timber and wood products trade

Major illegal wood trade Thousand cubic metres of round wood equivalent

380 250

South Africa

To EU To China To other markets

65 10

Congo Basin countries

700

500

500

400

Sources: International Trade Centre database, accessed 02.03.2010; Estimates of the percentage of “Illegal Timber” in the imports of wood-based products from selected countries, Global Timber, 2007; Ruiz Pe´rez, M., Logging in the Congo Basin: A multi-country characterization of timber companies, Forest Ecology and Management, 2005.

Republic of Congo

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

Cameroon

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