Here are some important documents that you may be able to use to manage your businesses record in buying responsibly managed timber and paper products – whether you are a current FTN member or not.


Forest & Trade Network Annual Report 2007/8

This is the WWF-UK Forest & Trade Network's fourth annual report which covers the management, activities and achievements of its members in 2007/2008.

Download the WWF-UK FTN Annual Report 2007/8

Forest & Trade Network Annual Report 2006/7

This is the WWF-UK Forest & Trade Network's third annual report which covers the management, activities and achievements of its members in 2006/2007.

Download the WWF-UK FTN Annual Report 2006/7

Forest & Trade Network Annual Report 2005/6

This is the WWF-UK FTN's second Annual Report. It looks back on performance over 2005/6 and describes areas where we have made progress and those that still pose a challenge.

Download the WWF-UK FTN Annual Report 2005/6

WWF Guide to Buying Paper

From packaging paper to office paper and tissues, the new WWF Guide to Buying Eco Friendly Paper makes it easy and straightforward for any organization to source responsibly produced paper products for their business needs and to reduce their ecological footprint.

It includes practical tips covering the environmental issues of responsible forest management, efficient paper use, pollution and global warming and includes the easy to use WWF Paper Scorecard to evaluate the environmental performance of paper suppliers across these themes. Paper buyers should ask their suppliers to rate themselves using the Scorecard and share the results.

Download the WWF Guide to Buying Paper

Keep it legal - Best Practices for Keeping Illegally Harvested Timber Out of Your Supply Chain

This manual has been developed by WWF's Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) for use by organizations wishing to extend a program of responsible purchasing to further address difficulties arising from possible trade in illegal forest products. The manual has been developed to add detail to legality issues encountered by companies adopting a responsible purchasing program.

WWF has produced this manual with the intention that it should become the first point of reference for all parts of the timber supply chain seeking to establish what represents current best practice with respect to buying, processing, and selling legal timber and timber products. It consolidates the efforts of many different parties, including those companies at the forefront of efforts to avoid use of illegally harvested timber.

The manual is aimed at any medium-size or large enterprise that purchases forest products, including processors, importers, manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers. It may also be useful to smaller enterprises.

The manual outlines the various ways in which purchasing organizations can demonstrate compliance with best practice and ultimately their own purchasing policies. It combines tried and tested mechanisms and new approaches and definitions, based upon on GFTN's exetensive experience in the development of responsible purchasing programs. These approaches are designed to make the process of 'keeping it legal' easier.

Download Keep it legal - Best Practices for Keeping Illegally Harvested Timber Out of Your Supply Chain

Guide to Responsible Purchasing of Forest Products - Second edition

This guide has been developed by WWF's Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) for use by a purchasing organization wishing to develop a program for the responsible purchasing of forest products. The guide lays out a generic approach for the development and implementation of a responsible purchasing policy, hereafter referred to as a responsible purchasing program.

The guide is aimed at any medium-size or large enterprise, including primary mills, secondary processors, importers, manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, that purchase or procure forest products. In appropriate circumstances it may also serve to guide smaller enterprises.

Download Guide to Responsible Purchasing of Forest Products - Second edition


Forest & Trade Network Annual Report 2004/5

This is the WWF-UK FTN's first Annual Report. It looks back on performance over 2004 and describes areas where we have made progress and those that still pose a challenge.

Download the Forest & Trade Network Annual Report 2004/5 as a PDF file.

Forest for Life publications
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Further information

For more information on other WWF-UK forest related reports and publications, please visit the forests section of the WWF-UK website.