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As it does every five years, Forest Europe has just released its 2025 State of Europe’s Forests report, compiled from the national inventories of the EU and 44 European countries.
As the successful battle to kill off the EU’s...
01/04/2026
A new study reveals the devastating impact that mining for materials for the global energy transition is having on the precious Miombo forests in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Journalist Didier Makal journeys to the epicentre of the destruction to reveal its human cost.
20/03/2026
How big is China's deforestation footprint? What commodities drive China's imported deforestation? How strong are China's forest laws? How much of China's forest risk exports go to the EU? What are the main challenges Chinese companies face to comply with the EU Deforestation Regulation?
16/03/2026
As cocoa prices surge, two new studies reveal that the new frontiers of cocoa production in Central Africa are seeing women’s rights trampled and rising deforestation. Tyala Ifwanga argues that the EU’s much delayed...
10/03/2026
Harms linked to cocoa production – deforestation, child labour, farmers not paid a living wage – have long been documented, especially in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the world’s two leading cocoa producers. Recent studies by Fern...
04/03/2026
Even though political representatives keep handing forestry lobbyists wins, some commercial mammoths have begun to ignore forestry-sector greenwashing and to distance themselves from Nordic forestry controversial practices.
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France has published its long-awaited National Strategy for Food, Nutrition and Climate (SNANC), which sets targets for the French food sector to achieve by 2030. It lays out policies that the French government will further...
Wood pellets made headlines for weeks in Poland this winter. The reason? A combination of a cold winter and excessive government support in past years for households’ purchase of wood pellet stoves and boilers, encouraged by...
Ronilson Costa, of Fern Brazilian NGO partner Comissão Pastoral da Terra (Pastoral Land Commission), writes about the context that gave rise to an innovative tool for defending rights.
Writing for the NGO Forest Coalition*, Cassie Dummett discusses the Assessment’s findings, and measures that should be taken to address them.
In January 2026, the Government of the United Kingdom released a national Security...
