” Traceability of timber
 
Traceability refers to gtracing production historyh. It is like resume in our life. In food industry especially, where camouflage is detected very often, tracing production history is getting more and more important in order to prove the safety of food. Timber is not edible but its traceability is also required because there are concerning problems such as chemical pollution, insect plague, and illegal harvesting. The longer the distance between the place of harvest and the place of consumption gets, like imported timber, the more difficult it becomes to trace down the history of timber---in other words, the shorter the distance, the easier to supply more reliable products because we can identify producers and production factories more easily. It is unfortunately true that the market of illegally harvested timber rely both on less identifiable production sector and on complicated and multi-national route timber takes.
Woodmiles is an index not only to observe the reality of timber trading in many countries then to advise on procurement of timber, but also to be influential to energy and safety issues of timber
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Background of Woodmiles
Global environment issues and timber@
