Publications & Insight

Cameroon’s forests can be saved – but only with the support of local communities and environmental activists

Lush, tropical forests cover approximately 40 per cent of Cameroon, yet since 1990, more than three million hectares have been cleared – an area approximately the size of Belgium. The destruction is driven by agriculture, logging...

25/10/2021

Independent forest monitoring in Congo: A governance tool at risk?

In the Republic of the Congo (RoC), the forestry sector continues to face governance challenges. Authorities often struggle to enforce laws and sanction illegal logging practices, and corruption remains omnipresent. Civil society...

25/10/2021

CAR: Independent Forest Monitors are making a comeback

The political instability that still confronts the Central African Republic undermines the protection and inclusive management of its forests. Almost non-existent government control and increases in chaotic logging threaten the...

25/10/2021

NGO Statements

NGOs are alarmed at the EU for possibly abandoning the fight against illegal logging and failing forested countries

This letter was sent to Prime Minister Janez Janša and Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

We are a group of environmental and human rights NGOs that work to advance forest governance and forest peoples’ rights globally. We are...

15/10/2021

Events

Nature-based Solutions: How to avoid land grabbing in the name of biodiversity?

When:

Tuesday 12 October, 13:00 – 17:00 (Brussels - CET).

Interpretation in English, French, Russian and Spanish

Background:

With Members of the European Parliament Michèle Rivasi, Maria Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, and Marc...

29/09/2021

FLEGT and EUTR Fitness Checks: Continued lack of transparency about EU plans

Ironically, the future of the programme that insisted on openness in partner countries’ forest sectors is frustratingly opaque.

16/09/2021

Société civile : quels rôles et impacts vis-à-vis du processus des contributions nationales ?

CARE France, Coordination SUD, Fern et Gret organisaient, le jeudi 16 septembre, un webinaire sur le rôle de la société civile et les impacts vis-à-vis du processus des contributions déterminées au niveau national (CDN). Les CDN...

22/07/2021

Ghana: A new minister has boosted momentum for FLEGT licensing

In Ghana, long-standing roadblocks to progress on forest governance are now being tackled by a new Minister.

14/07/2021

Progress towards strong forest governance in Voluntary Partnership Agreement countries 2018-2020

Tropical forests and those who depend on them are at greatest risk where their governance is weak. The Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) that the EU - and, post-Brexit, the UK independently - establishes with forested...

30/06/2021

NGOs across the globe urge European Commission to uphold commitments to FLEGT

Forest rich countries have invested time, energy, and resources in cleaning up their forest sector and have achieved important successes. NGOs have joined forces to tell the European Commission that the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Action Plan is more important than ever.

04/05/2021