Industry, governments, and other stakeholders are looking for tools to better assess the risk that products linked to illegal deforestation enter global trade flows.  As illicit acts, illegal deforestation and related crimes in forest areas are difficult to monitor and great efforts are taken to hide them. While it is challenging to get an accurate picture, we estimate that almost three quarters (69 percent) of tropical forest loss driven by commercial agriculture was illegal deforestation, conducted in violation of national laws and regulations. This poses challenges for the private sector and other actors who want to assess the risk of illegal logging or illegal deforestation entering timber and forest risk agricultural commodity (FRAC) supply chains, and government agencies enforcing the growing number of national regulations designed to exclude illegal deforestation imports.

Interactive map: Click on a country to access detailed legality risk assessment information
or refer to the Country ILAT Risk scores in the table below

Country page and dashboard
Country page and dashboard coming soon
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Risk profile:
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Through this site, Forest Trends presents a series of tools designed to facilitate the very initial stages of a national risk assessment when sourcing timber products. These include:

  1. Timber Legality Risk Country Dashboards or summaries of publicly available information sources that speak to the risks associated with illegal timber entering international supply chains.
  2. The Global Illegal Logging and Associated Trade Risk Data Tool (ILAT Risk Data Tool) for timber, pulp, and paper products designed to support a better understanding of global trade in these products, including revealing the main producers and processors and the higher-risk trade routes associated with an elevated risk that the timber was illegal harvested or traded.
  3. Forest Trends publications and recent news stories focused on forest sector risks and illegal deforestation.

In the coming months, Forest Trends will add additional tools designed to support the initial stages of a risk assessment when sourcing other forest risk agricultural commodities that are driving illegal deforestation and associated trade (IDAT).

This website was funded by a grant from the United States Department of State. The opinions, findings and conclusions stated herein are those of Forest Trends and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Department of State.

Key Resources
Click here for a collection of Forest Trends publications related to IDAT Risk, including the full set of Timber Legality Risk Country Dashboards.
Methodology
Click here to download the Methodology which includes information on data sources, the methodology used to create risk indicators, and a glossary of key terms.
Data Tools

Click here to access the Global Illegal Logging and Associated Trade (ILAT) Risk assessment tool and to download the Forest Trends User Guide describing the functionality of the ILAT Risk Data Tool.

Click here to access the Cattle Data Tool.

Export Restrictions
Click here to download a database of forest policy export restrictions.