The governments and other interested parties can call on various strategies to improve the detection, suppression and prevention of the illegal trade, including the following:

· Increased quantification and diagnostic analysis of illegal logging trade, discovering its main causes and agents
· Reform of the policy and legal framework
· Strengthening government institutions
· Improving relations between the government and forest industry
· Increasing knowledge and data on the nation’s forest resources.

However, there are multiple and wide-ranging causes of forest sector illegalities. Therefore, the corrective strategies should be applied in different forms and intensities according to the specific context of each. A significant part of the solution consists in determining which actions should receive priority, and in which sequence they should be applied.

The following document examines the strategies and methods that, in the light of experience from various parts of the world, seem to be most important in eliminating barriers to legality in the forest sector.

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To obtain more information on international experiences, consult the following site:

Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) and; the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) – information on illegal logging http://www.illegal-logging.info