The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) is an intergovernmental organization that promotes the sustainable management and conservation of tropical forests as well as the expansion and diversification of international trade in tropical timber from sustainably managed forests and obtained legally.

ITTO is an action-oriented and practice-based organization with over thirty years of experience. It has funded and contributed to the implementation of over 1,200 projects and activities dealing with the many aspects of sustainable forest management, including: forest restoration; efficiency in the use of wood; competitiveness of wood products; market information and transparency in tropical timber trade and related supply chains; forest law enforcement and related supply chains; forest law enforcement and forest governance; illegal logging; biodiversity conservation; mitigation Of change climate change and adaptation to its effects; the contributions of non-wood forest products and environmental services; and the livelihoods of forest-dependent people.

ITTO member states account for around 90 percent of the international tropical timber trade and over 80 percent of the world's tropical forests.