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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...
05/12/2025
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
Opportunities and Challenges of the Lobito Corridor Initiative
As the European Union deepens its engagement in Africa’s critical raw material value chains, the Lobito Corridor Initiative has emerged as a flagship Global Gateway...
20/11/2025
Building direct funding mechanisms that work
Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities and Afro-descendent Peoples (IPLCPAP) protect over 55% of the world’s remaining forests, yet they only receive a fraction of global climate...
12/11/2025
Organised by Observatorio-Socioambiental, this event presented a proposal for a new Social Environmental Observatory and Platform which will bring together data about human rights violations, production of commodities in Brazil so...
This publication was updated in February 2026.
Deforestation impacts more than forests and wildlife: it is a multifaceted problem that has human rights impacts and dispossesses Indigenous Peoples, traditional communities, and...
10/11/2025
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