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Fern partner AFREWATCH raises concerns about the EU Global Gateway’s massive Lobito Corridor infrastructure project, to which the EU is contributing through the Global Gateway, and the railway section that will cut through the...
01/04/2026
After reaching historic highs in 2024 and early 2025 – when cocoa was dubbed “better than bitcoin” – cocoa prices recently crashed again, leaving farmers in distress.
Implementation of anti-deforestation legislation led by the...
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
Agricultural expansion drives almost 90% of global deforestation.
The EU’s attempt to tackle it through the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) could now be delayed by 12 months because of opposition from various quarters –...
14/10/2024
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Fern’s Congo Basin partners support the aims of the Regulation on deforestation-free products, but have serious reservations about its approach.
23/06/2022
A proposed law to protect the rights of the Indigenous Pygmy Peoples, intended to redress the discrimination they have faced when protecting their culture and to strengthen their contribution to sustainable management of forests,...
10/02/2021
Christian Mounzéo and Essylot C. Lubala look at China’s new forest law and the practical results it may have in forested countries, such as the Congo Basin.
08/04/2020
German facilitation of the Partnership could set an innovative course.
13/02/2020
Fern campaigner, Marie Ange Kalenga was invited to produce a blog for Transparency International’s 20th anniversary. Beyond obvious criminal implications, corruption is an assault on people, forests and the environment. It can be stopped.
11/12/2019
Catholic bishops speak out on protecting indigenous communities and rainforests in the Amazon and worldwide and says it is time to listen to the cry of people and of nature.
13/11/2019
