British firm vows to use software and satellites to track down illegal timber shipments

James S Murray
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Carbon Trust leads £1m funding round to support development of innovative timber tracking technology

An Oxford-based firm is to open a new front in the fight to tackle illegal logging with the development of software designed to track timber shipments through their complex supply chain and provide purchasers...

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