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The EU is scrambling to secure the critical raw materials needed for the energy transition and defense. But in Finnish Lapland this quest threatens to destroy precious habitats and traditional livelihoods, as Perrine Fournier, Anna Muižniece and Dhany Alfalah discover.
08/12/2025
In 1995 Saskia Ozinga founded Fern with Sian Pettman. She has been integral to the unique place Fern occupies in the global forest movement and our singular way of working. In this interview, she reflects on some of the lessons of the past three decades.
05/12/2025
Renowned science writer and Fern Board member Fred Pearce has reported for decades on tropical deforestation. In this essay marking Fern’s 30th anniversary, he chronicles one of the biggest transformations in that time: how forest...
Listen up, people, let us all learn the rousing call of our family Fern - a hart’s-tongue song, a polypody anthem. Pinna by pinna, rhizome by rhizome, they’re asking the questions: why not? and who? (marginal, sensitive,...
In recent years, forests moved to the heart of EU policymaking, but now a range of forces are pushing back against all that’s been achieved. This is a moment of reckoning and we must hold tight to our founding values, writes...
The companies, investors, non-governmental and civil society organisations represented in this statement stand united in strong opposition to any further delay or weakening of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
The EUDR was...
03/12/2025
Yesterday, European Environment Commissioner Roswall presented the revised European Bioeconomy Strategy. Martin Pigeon and Sydney Vennin offer their initial impressions:
Business as usual
There are few meaningful changes to...
28/11/2025
26 November 2025, Brussels – The European Parliament today voted to delay the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) before it has even entered into application, and opened the door to revising it next year. This follows the approach...
26/11/2025
Today, 10 November 2025, marks day one of the 30th United Nations climate conference (COP30) – ‘the Forest COP’ (or the COP of truth) – held at the ‘gateway to the Amazon’ in Belém, Brazil.
Fern and several partners are there,...
10/11/2025
Since September 2025, the EU has set itself on a course to diminish the climate ambition of its Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sectors in response to industry pressure.
Early on 5 November 2025, even the...
