Trong một số trường hợp chính phủ chủ nhà thậm chí còn xuất hiện để được sử dụng bảo mật công ty dầu như một vỏ bọc cho tiến hành các chiến dịch quân sự chống lại kẻ thù chính trị hay dân tộc. Một số những cáo buộc nghiêm trọng nhất san bằng với các công ty dầu quốc tế | tions by their very nature take place in peripheral frontier regions where established infrastructure is minimal to non-existent. In peacetime forest management bureaucracies often do not act. In times of war such action is all the more difficult. Transparency Transparency is essential to the prevention of illegal logging and the supply of conflict timber and should be applied to every stage of a logging operation. Allocation of concessions should be by competitive and technical tender with the results widely publicised. Concession boundaries the allocation of cutting licenses and forest revenues accrued to the state should all be publicly available. If local people had a share of the profits deriving from a logging operation they would be inclined to protect their forest from outsiders insist that it be managed sustainably and in short would be the best monitors of the operation. Local communities should be included in the decision-making process related to the use of forests. Enhanced Enforcement In some examples the logging industry acts as a law unto itself. Forest management authorities may need external capacity building to fulfil their mandates. External monitoring for example in Cambodia and Cameroon can enable national enforcement units to tackle situations which would ordinarily be too sensitive for that country s nationals. Donor countries need to work with governments to improve and support capacities for detecting and suppressing forest crime. Legislative Reform Legislation governing forestry practices is often inadequate at times an outdated relict from colonial times unsuited for controlling modern industrial timber extraction. Legislation is only effective in the context of a skilled and independent judiciary that can impose meaningful . expensive penalties on illegal loggers. Experience dictates that the producer country must have ownership of the development of the legislation or it is unlikely to take action based on the new law. However .
