1/5
Hi everyone, I am excited to present work done within @biosec_erc
#IllegalLogging=most lucrative
env crime but is often addressed as happening elsewhere
#EU mostly commits to
imported #deforestation. I
at ramifications of timber trafficking within EU #Greencrime2021
Hi everyone, I am excited to present work done within @biosec_erc
#IllegalLogging=most lucrative




2/5
#EU does NOT have laws 2 fully address timber trafficking as #greencrime
#EUTR regulates the
timber placement on the market, BUT timber trafficking=authorization+

+
+smuggling+processing
Environmental &social #harms
these stages are left out. #Greencrime2021

#EUTR regulates the








3/5
Recently journalists&activists
cases of #organisedcrime, some w/t transnational character.
Politicians increasingly refer 2 timber mafia & use it as political ammunition.
Environmental harms are spectacularly presented but social harms r hardly mentioned #Greencrime2021
Recently journalists&activists


Environmental harms are spectacularly presented but social harms r hardly mentioned #Greencrime2021
4/5
In

#criminalisation discourses
timber shortages, disrupted livelihoods &
precarity. It usually happens in rural #EasterEurope: energy poverty+ high firewood dependency +legalistic takes on #illegallogging leave many unemployed #Greencrime2021 https://tinyurl.com/y3r66ocm
In





5/5
Despite
attention &political momentum #timbertrafficking is rarely prosecuted as #crime, most member states opting 4 administrative/regulatory sanctions
Across
it is important to employ both env &social justice frameworks 4 addressing #illegallogging #Greencrime2021
Despite


