A new report has claimed that illegal logging in the world’s forests has marked a surprising plunge by nearly 25% since 2002, reflecting that efforts undertaken to control illegal destruction of the world’s rainforests touched success.In addition, consumer unceasing pressure, legal restrictions by importing countries and media attention all have made their priceless contribution for the same, outlined the London-based thinktank, Chatham House.

Sam Lawson, the report’s lead author, quoted, “That (50-75%) sounds like a lot; but bear in mind that illegal logging was such a bad problem in those countries that even though it’s reduced substantially, it still is a bad problem”.

The report has highlighted robust improvement in some important forest countries including Brazil, Cameroon and Indonesia. However, more efforts need to be undertaken as it would pose more difficulties, it outlined.

Furthermore, if the decrease in illegal logging continues, billions of tones of greenhouse gas emissions could be indirectly dealt with and would also assist in strengthening our fight against global warming.

The changed scenario compared to the last decade has witnessed 17m hectares of forest free from degradation thereby cutting the release of nearly 1.2bn tones of CO2 emissions.

Moreover, if the trees prevented from degradation are legally logged and sold, this could yield an extra US$6.5bn in form of an additional income to the forest rich countries.