According to a briefing paper by Chatham House, illegal logging activities “may account for over a tenth of the total global timer trade, representing products worth at least $15bn a year.”

Source: Duncan Brack, “Illegal Logging: Briefing Paper”, August 2006, Chatham House: Energy Environment and Development Programme, (accessed: December 15, 2007).

During the 1980s, illegal logging activities in the Philippines created losses of up to $1.8 Billion a year.

Source:  “Towards a strategy for better law compliance in the forest sector, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Best Practices for improving law compliance in the forest sector, 2005, Ch.3.

As much as 70 to 90 percent of all logging activities in Papua New Guinea is believed to be illegal, with major activities conducted by international companies.

Source:  Andreas Schloenhardt, “The illegal trade in timber and timber products in the Asia-Pacific region,” Australian Institute of Criminology, Research and public policy series no. 89, January 2008, page 70.

The economic impact of illegal logging activities in Russia is estimated to be $2 Billion, according to the WWF.

Source:  Andreas Schloenhardt, “The illegal trade in timber and timber products in the Asia-Pacific region,” Australian Institute of Criminology, Research and public policy series no. 89, January 2008, page 67.

The Forestry Minister states that Indonesia loses up to $3 Billion every year from illegal logging.

Source:  Adianto P. Simamora, “Cut forest mafia, activists told government,” Jakarta Post, February 5, 2010.

A study by the Center for East Asia Cooperation Studies at the University of Indonesia found that between 1999 and 2006, the Indonesia military “acted as a coordinator, investor, facilitator and middleman for the illegal loggers in forests bordering Malaysia”.

Source:  AFP, “Indonesian military behind illegal logging: study,” Google News, January 29, 2010.

Authorities seized 2,700 cubic meters of illegally logged wood in Cambodia in 2009, up 400 cubic meters from 2008.

From 2006 till 2009, the Ministry of Agriculture has seized more than 11,000 chainsaws from illegal loggers and destroyed over 3,000 of them.

In addition, about 2,000 kilograms of dead and alive animals were confiscated from wildlife traffickers in Cambodia in 2009.

Source:  Khouth Sophakchakrya, “Illegal logging and wildlife trafficking prosecutions up,”Phnom Penh Post, January 7, 2010.

According to the World Bank, illegal logging activities in Albania exceeds legal logging by a factor of 10.

Source:  Elvis Nabolli, “Illegal Logging Ravages Albania’s Forests,” Balkan Insight, December 16, 2009.

150 to 250 cubic meters of rosewood worth an estimated $800,000 is illegally harvested in Madagascar each day.

Source:  Global Witness and The Environnemental Investigation Agency, “Illegal Malagasy timber trade worth $800,000 a day, new report reveals,” Press Release, November 26, 2009.

According to officials in Russia, more than one third of all logging activities in the country is controlled by organized crime syndicates.

Source:  Alfonso Daniels, “Battling Siberia’s devastating illegal logging trade,” BBC News, November 27, 2009.