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Fern’s name was chosen because ferns are one of the few plants that can grow in every kind of forest, and are found in almost every corner of the planet. The name resonates for us in another important way - particularly in troubled times: ferns are resilient. They have a remarkable capacity to adapt and flourish as conditions change: an ability that’s enabled them to evolve since dinosaurs roamed the earth. Resilience is at the heart of our organisation, and has been since Saskia Ozinga and Sian Pettman founded it 30 years ago.
02/10/2025
When the EU deforestation regulation (EUDR) came into force in June 2023 it was greeted as an historic moment in the fight to protect the world’s endangered forests.
The law signaled the EU’s resolve to end its complicity in...
24/09/2025
Brussels, 23 September, 2025 – Today’s free trade agreement between the EU and Indonesia is a win for transnational companies at the expense of forests and vulnerable peoples.
After nine years of negotiations, Indonesia and...
23/09/2025
Fern partners Agent Green and Bruno Manser Fonds stress the importance of ambitious, timely implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation
In response to the EU Commission’s call for evidence regarding the ‘simplification’ of...
17/09/2025
In the dead of summer, the Commission launched a number of consultations, many of which targeted environmental legislation, and would empty rules of meaningful requirements. Opposing camps lined up accordingly, flooding the zone. ...
The turmoil that for the past year has surrounded the EU’s draft legislative text on Forest Monitoring shows no signs of abating.
On 23 September 2025, the ENVI committee will vote on the Forest Monitoring proposal; in early...
It has been a long time coming, but on 18 August 2025 Ghana officially launched its Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licences, the first African nation and only the second EU FLEGT partner country to do so.
Th...
In this position paper, we join Oxfam, Fair Trade International, the European Milk Board and 14 other organisations calling for the EU to ban a series of unfair trading practices (UTP) in the agricultural and food sector,...
01/09/2025
The European Union’s forest carbon sink has declined dramatically over the last decade. The factors driving it are the subject of ongoing and intense debate.
This briefing summarises the well-documented causes of this decline:...
01/08/2025
The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation draws attention to a situation now playing out in Sweden – among the EU’s most forested Member States – that could model truly sustainable forestry. Or fall short.
With various forces...
29/07/2025
