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Clear-Cutting To Build Ski Slopes For The 2018 Winter Olympics

The 2018 Winter Olympics will take place in South Korea. The winter events consist of different types of skiing, ice hockey, figure skating, and a few other sports. With that being said, a path/venue must be created to accommodate these sports. A recent story released the...

October 15, 2015, News

A Word From Tom Bedell: The Beauty Behind The Bedell Blackbird Vegan Guitar

Over the last seven years the guitar industry has been in a turmoil over the Lacey Act amendments of 2008, the Gibson guitar wood raid of 2011, and varying opinions on what should be the responsibility of consumer products companies in guaranteeing the wood they use...

October 9, 2015, News

How Illegal Logging is Coming to a Halt in the Amazon: Spies, Technology, or Both?

It is no secret that the trade of illegally logged timber is on the rise, especially in the Amazon, but does that mean that it is easy to do? Not necessarily. With the forests diminishing the Ka’apor people started setting up surveillance cameras throughout...

October 8, 2015, News

Tom Bedell Speaks Out About Conservation and Forestry Issues

In September, Tom Bedell participated in the World Forestry Congress in Durban, South Africa. As the only attending guitar company, of which all have fallen reliant on the world’s’ challenged forests, his message hit a strong chord with many of the 3,200 attendees. “Clearly sovereign governments...

September 29, 2015, News

The Organized Crime In Trading Timber

The Environment Investigation Agency (EIA) recently released an update on the extensive investigations of the trade on timber in China and Myanmar, which in turn exposed the corruption that aids these transgressions. The 155 Chinese nationals who were convicted of the illegal logging of...

September 21, 2015, News

A Word From Tom: “Day Two Of The World Forestry Congress”

It was a full day of networking, advocating, and learning during my second day at the World Forestry Congress. Here are a few highlights: During a private discussion with the Secretariat of CITES I was made aware of a much broader international rosewood crisis, encompassing Laos,...

September 10, 2015, News

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