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Fern’s Annual Financial Accounts provide a comprehensive overview of our finances over the fiscal year. The financial statements are externally audited, and show our funding sources, expenditure and workstreams. We are dedicated...
04/06/2026
In 2025 Fern celebrated its 30th anniversary. At a time when the EU’s progressive forest policies are under concerted attack, the anniversary gave us the chance to take the long view. This year’s Annual Report shows how Fern is responding to the current challenges by meeting people where they’re at: detailing how forests connect to peoples’ lives in surprising ways, from energy bills to cholesterol levels, and transport, and how our campaigns are working to tackle these issues, including by listening to people beyond our bubbles.
In Finnish Lapland, an ecosystem that’s evolved over thousands of years is threatened with destruction for the short-term needs of the car, defence and AI industries. Now the Sakatti mine has moved a step closer to opening, and environmental defenders in Finland are mobilising, writes Perrine Fournier.
03/06/2026
The European Commission has announced it will look into merging the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Regulation [LULUCF] and the Effort Sharing Regulation [ESR] into a single instrument on national climate targets.
13/05/2026
In today’s Indonesia, civic space is restricted, and violence against environmental and human rights defenders is soaring. And so is deforestation, surging 66% in 2025 compared to the previous year. But the EU could use the...
Figures showing the latest trends in global forest loss are out: the World Research Institute’s Global Forest Watch (GFW) has just published Forest Pulse. Compiled from recent data and analysis, it reveals the dominant drivers of primary forest loss, region by region.
The Liberian Government is aiming to conclude a forest-related Carbon Policy which is being supported by the African Development Bank but is likely to only offer communities partial benefits.
Deforestation is surging – land, trade and carbon policies must defend our forests
Brussels, May 5, 2026 – The European Commission has resisted industry and political pressure and opted not to reopen the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
On May 4, 2026, the Commission published its report on options to...
05/05/2026
Amid a wave of geopolitical instability and surging demand, gold is increasingly attractive as a strategic financial vehicle for organised crime, sanctions evasion, corruption and political control.
The implications for the...
28/04/2026
