Caitlin Clarke

Caitlin Clarke
Research Analyst
cclarke@wri.org|+1 (202) 729-7632

As Research Analyst for WRI’s Forest Legality project, Caitlin is part of a team that will build capacity within the forest product supply chain to comply with new laws aimed at reducing global demand for illegal wood (such as the U.S. Lacey Act), demonstrate enforcement of these laws, and encourage replication of these laws in major forest product importing countries.

Caitlin started at WRI as an intern with the Southern Forests for the Future team. A suburban Atlanta native, she holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Yale University, where she studied tropical landscape conservation and governance of natural resources in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Before coming to WRI, she worked with Hispanic community organizations to improve local environmental quality.

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Submitted on August 10, 2012
On August 6, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it reached a criminal enforcement agreement with Gibson Guitar Corp., resolving two investigations into allegations that Gibson violated the Lacey Act by purchasing and importing illegally harvested wood materials into the United States from Madagascar and India. Because this is the first major set of investigations to be publicly...