Publications & Insight

News, Forest Watch, Partner Voices

To fulfil the Tropical Forest Forever Facility’s promise, Indigenous and local communities must be at the heart of its governance

Joe Eisen, Executive Director of Rainforest Foundation UK, discusses the changes that are needed to enhance the new fund’s effectiveness in protecting forests and upholding forest communities’ rights.  

In 2024, the world lost...

11/06/2025

News, Forest Watch, Partner Voices

Blocking imports of Russia’s conflict timber is possible, and essential

Earthsight’s Tara Ganesh discusses Russia’s ‘blood-stained birch’, EU sanctions and how successful enforcement depends on the political will to follow facts. 

In late winter, as the United States dramatically distanced itself...

11/06/2025

News, Forest Watch

The EU/UK reset: an opportunity for forests?

Our fraught geopolitical context underlines the good sense of the recent EU/UK realignment ranging from security to youth experience and passport checks. With their rapprochement now agreed, there is an opportunity to mutually...

11/06/2025

News, Forest Watch

AGRIFISH Ministers try to take EUDR benchmarking system hostage

Having been thus far unable to scrap the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), national Agriculture ministers from EU Member States opted to empty its risk assessment methodology of meaning, and destroy the EUDR by increments....

11/06/2025

Audited Finances

Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2024

Fern’s Annual Financial Accounts provide a comprehensive overview of our finances over the fiscal year. The financial statements are externally audited, and show our funding sources, expenditure and workstreams. We are dedicated...

05/06/2025

FAQs

What is the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF)?

Updated in February 2026

The TFFF is a new investment fund to pay tropical countries to halt deforestation and degradation. It was officially launched at the Leaders’ Summit ahead of COP30 in Belém in November 2025.

Despite...

05/06/2025

Briefing Notes

Tropical Forest Forever Facility Briefing Note

This briefing note, developed by a coalition of international environmental, human rights and Indigenous organisations highlights key concerns that must be addressed for the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) to be...

05/06/2025

Reports

A joint way forward on global forest loss

Cooperative pathways for Europe and highly forested countries in a changing world

This policy brief discusses the EU’s engagement with highly forested countries. It argues that the EU has opportunities to both help regain trust...

15/05/2025

Reports

Delivering on forest governance in a transactional world

During 2024, Fern commissioned Tulip, a Geneva-based consultancy, to interrogate external perceptions of the EU’s international forest policy. The report was timed to inform the next five-year cycle of EU action on protecting...

15/05/2025

NGO Statements

The role of state forests in protecting and restoring European forests

Twenty-one organisations from across Europe have written a joint letter to the European State Forest Association (EUSTAFOR) and members of its Executive Committee, about their recent position paper “Preserving forests, jobs and...

14/05/2025