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Fern welcomes European Parliament call for bold action on forests

Fern welcomes a new report from the European Parliament (EP) on “natural resource management, the case of forests”. Championed by the EP’s Vice President Heidi Hautala and members of its...

11/09/2018

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EU-Honduras VPA generates high hopes

On 14 June 2018 in Tegucigalpa, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and EU Commission Director General Stefano Manservisi initialled the text of the EU-Honduras Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) intended to improve...

02/08/2018

Films

Des forêts à l'UE

Comment l'UE peut aider à la protection des forêts selon la société civile

Partout dans le monde, près de 1,6 milliards de personnes dépendent des forêts pour leur survie. Et pourtant, au cours de la seule année 2017, 15,8...

25/07/2018

Blogs

Shard of light

Negotiations around the timber trade deal between Honduras and the European Union show how diverse interests can be reconciled in a divided land. Isolda Arita reports.

Honduras is a nation riven by conflict, with the disputed p...

11/05/2018

Greater enforcement of EU Timber Regulation will help improve forest governance

The European Commission has launched a first infringement procedure against Belgium for failure to enforce the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR), which prohibits the placing of illegally harvested timber on the EU market. Those putting...

01/11/2017

Blogs

Le destin des forêts du Bassin du Congo doit être entre les mains de ses habitants

Le souffle léger de démocratisation qui traverse actuellement  le bassin du Congo est largement l’œuvre de la société civile.En République centrafricaine (RCA), la société civile joue un rôle clé dans la reconstruction du pays. Au...

11/09/2017

Blogs

Ghana is on the brink of a major advance in its fight against illegal logging. But now its forests face serious threat from mining.

Between 1990 and 2005 Ghana lost an estimated quarter of its national forest cover. Illegal timber harvesting was rife, and poor governance and a lack of transparency plagued the forest sector.

Things began to change for the...

31/07/2017

Blogs

Blog: What can the EU do to curb corruption in the forest sector?

Corruption. It has blighted countries in every continent for generations, and is identified as a main reason why illegal logging continues at a seemingly unstoppable rate. Each year Transparency International produces a Corruption...

28/06/2017

Blogs

Blogueur invité: ​les forêts peuvent-elles contribuer à la reconstruction d’une République centrafricaine déchirée par la guerre?

Par Bienvenu Gbelo

Bienvenu Gbelo est un journaliste environnemental de la Radio Ndeke Luka à Bangui.  

Plutôt ce mois-ci, le Représentant spécial du secrétaire général des Nations Unies (ONU) pour la République centrafricaine...

22/06/2017

Blogs

Blog: Hope for a hard-pressed community

The head of Tan Hoi village sits cross-legged on the floor describing the pressures his people face.

“The older generation lacks education. The younger ones leave school as early as 11. Only one person has ever graduated from...

20/06/2017