Yokohama, 02 February 2025: World Wetlands Day is a moment to reflect on the vital role wetlands play in sustaining biodiversity, supporting local communities, and mitigating climate change. In celebration of this day, we highlight a remarkable conservation success story—the ITTO project Rehabilitation and Sustainable Management of Sacred Forests on Ramsar Sites 1017 and 1018 in Benin.

Yokohama, 20 January 2025: The Global Timber Index (GTI), which tracks the performance of the timber sector in diverse pilot countries, has launched a new sub-index, the Market Expectation Index, for tracking and monitoring the confidence levels of leading timber enterprises in GTI pilot countries regarding the trends of timber and wood markets in their countries over the next six months. With this addition, the GTI now encompasses 12 sub-indices, providing a more comprehensive reflection of the production and business trends of the timber sectors in pilot countries.

Yokohama, 17 January 2025: The Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum (GLSTF) 2024 has been honored with the Brand Convention Award at the “Macao Convention and Exhibition Commendation Awards 2024” ceremony. The awarding ceremony took place on December 3, 2024 at the Macau Tower Convention and Entertainment Center.

Yokohama, 6 December 2024: The International Tropical Timber Council took five decisions on the closing day of its 60th session on 6 December 2024, including one that extended by two years the term of appointment of ITTO Executive Director Sheam Satkuru, to 31 January 2028.

Yokohama, 5 December 2024: Trade in most tropical wood products declined significantly in 2023 in response to a slowdown in economic growth in most consumer economies, a cost-of-living crisis caused by inflationary pressures, and a slowdown in China’s property sector, according to a report presented on day 4 of the 60th session of the International Tropical Timber Council.

Yokohama, 4 December 2024: Completed projects in Indonesia and Peru have provided valuable insights on forest fire management and will inform new guidelines on tropical forest fire management, according to an evaluation of the projects presented at the 60th session of the International Tropical Timber Council, which convened on its third day today.