62 | Feature: World Forest ID


SUMMARY


■WFID aims to establish a geo- referenced wood sample library


■It is undertaking sample collection in 21 countries


■Kew Gardens is designated curator of the WFID wood sample collection


APPLIANCE OF SCIENCE


Mike Jeffree reports on World Forest ID, a project to establish a global timber traceability system


World Forest ID (WFID) has an ambitious target. Its aim is to establish a geo-referenced wood sample library and associated database to allow use of science-based traceability techniques to police trade in the world’s top 200 commercial and most vulnerable timber species. It’s a vast undertaking, requiring samples to be taken across the target species’ international growing range, a total of 300- 500,000. According to WFID chief executive Phil Guillery, however, such a resource would deliver a significant blow against illegal logging and for maintenance of the global forest resource, its biodiversity and critical role in climate regulation.


Above: Tulipwood and white oak samples are being collected in Kentucky TTJ | January/February 2022 | www.ttjonline.com


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