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The European Union Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR), adopted in June 2023 marks a turning point in global trade governance by requiring that certain key commodities sold on the EU market (including wood, rubber, soy, beef,...
12/01/2026
Mining no longer allowed in Ghana’s forests
On 10 December 2025, the Ghanaian government officially revoked a Regulation that permitted Mining in Forest Reserves including Globally Significant Biodiversity Areas (GSBAs). This...
18/12/2025
Forest Watch celebrates 30 years of Fern, climate conferences and our Cameroonian partner CED
10/12/2025
As the Cameroonian NGO celebrates its 30th year defending forest peoples and forests, founder and longest-standing Fern partner Samuel Nguiffo looks back on the CED’s evolution.
We have had the good fortune, sometimes, to be...
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The 30th international climate conference in Belém, Brazil hoped to draw the world’s attention to the importance of the Amazon Basin and forests more generally. The roller-coaster of highs (proposed roadmaps to reduce fossil...
On 27 November 2025, the Commission’s published its long-awaited Bioeconomy Strategy, which skips over meaningful discussion of environmental limits and overconsumption in favour of commercial considerations. Will any of the new...
Major companies are cutting ties with Northern Europe’s forest sector over concerns about labour scandals and how the industry operates. Rather than address systemic abuse, Sweden and Finland are pushing the European Commission to...
There was some alarm, but no surprises on 4 December 2025 when the European Commission, Parliament and Council cut a deal to delay the pioneering EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), and – far worse – to re-open its substance to...
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
