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In a troubling turn of events, the European Parliament’s agriculture and environment committees rejected a legislative proposal to strengthen forest monitoring across the EU – just as new data reveals the severity of Europe’s...
15/10/2025
In April 2023, the European Union moved boldly to end EU complicity in global deforestation linked to our consumption, by passing the ground-breaking EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) with an overwhelming majority. Since then,...
On 15 September, the prime ministers of Finland and Sweden sent a letter to the President of the European Commission asking for concessions within the current Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) target, the EU’s forest...
14/10/2025
On 23 September, Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy Commissioner Jessika Roswall announced the Commission' intention to delay implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) for the...
07/10/2025
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...
