Timber piracy down – but we're not out of the woods

by Fred Pearce from New Scientist. Some encouraging news for a change, but the author suggests that some caution is necessary in interpreting the results of a study on illegal logging.

Green campaigning really does work. Illegal logging in deforestation hotspots like the Brazilian Amazon, Indonesia and central Africa has fallen by between 50 and 75 per cent in the past decade, according to a new study by the international affairs think tank Chatham House in London.