Rapporteur highlights judicial harassment in Cameroon The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has cast doubts on the legal proceedings against Cameroonian human rights activist Nasako…
Vietnam–EU VPA to include all timber markets As their negotiations toward a Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) advance, Vietnam and the EU…
News in Brief - May 2016 Drax asks for more state funds In 2015 Drax, the UK’s largest power plant, received £451.8 million in state subsidies and other support for converting its coal-fired…
EU must act urgently on FLEGT and deforestation On the occasion on International Day of Forests, nine NGOs, including Fern, urged the EU to step up the implementation of the Forest Law…
FLEGT: Council takes a more balanced view At its meeting on 14 March, the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council expressed strong support for the EU FLEGT Action Plan when discussing the EU Court of…
EU’s illegal logging legislation bares its teeth Three years after it came in to force, the EU regulation prohibiting illegal timber imports (EUTR) publicly showed its teeth this month. The…
Jumbo thumbs-down for aviation offsetting plan As the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) met in Utrecht on 4 and 5 April to discuss its response to climate change, more than 80…
Destructive palm oil imports in the spotlight France's plans to impose an additional tax on palm oil used in food moved a step closer as its lower house of parliament approved the levy on 18 March…
Funders get cold feet as Honduras intimidation continues Two weeks after the murder of Honduran environmental and indigenous leader Berta Cáceres (FW213), two leading European…
Europe’s World Heritage woods under the axe Poland has approved plans to log vast areas in the ancient Białowieża forest, an important remnant of the temperate broad-leaved forests that…
