The Justice Department: TIMBER Trafficking Enforcement Roundtable - April 20, 2023

As part of the Justice Department’s Earth Week recognition, the department held an interagency roundtable on illegal timber trafficking. Officials will announced the TIMBER Enforcement Working Group and explained how it will act as a force multiplier for U.S. enforcement efforts, among other recent developments in the field of timber trafficking enforcement.
Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) and Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Benjamin Mizer provided opening remarks on the importance of combating timber trafficking in order to protect forest resources and indigenous people who rely on the forests, combat climate change and transnational organized crime, and create a level playing field for the U.S. timber and wood products market.