Republic of Congo and CAR sign Joint CAFI Declaration The Central African Republic (CAR) and the Republic of Congo are the first Congo Basin countries to sign the joint Central African Forest…
Cameroon excludes forest communities from benefit-sharing The recent adoption of Cameroon’s 2016 finance law, which defines the annual budget, has once again thwarted the hopes of forest…
News in brief - February 2016 Well-documented links exist between increased deforestation of an area and the emergence of diseases. Previously, the relationship was established between…
Looking back at 200 issues of ForestWatch To mark Forest Watch’s 200th issue, we asked FERN’s co-founder, Saskia Ozinga, to comment on the road that has been travelled since the first issue in…
European Commission’s biodiversity offset report shows it is deaf to the concerns of EU citizens This press release raises concern about a new European Commission report on biodiversity offsetting…
What does the Paris climate agreement mean for forests and forest peoples’ rights? "The unquestioned reliance on negative emissions to deliver on the Paris goals is the greatest threat to the…
Forest Watch special - VPA update December 2015 Every six months, Fern produces an update looking at the present situation with regards the EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT)…
Circular economy package misses key opportunities On 2 December, the European Commission launched its ‘flagship’ environmental policy of the year: the Circular Economy Package, which aims to…
Moving toward an EU action plan on deforestation At a high-level event in November organized by WWF, Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for the Environment, declared for the first time that the…
Coal’s hidden ‘double whammy’: 12 million hectares of forest at risk A forest area larger than Portugal is at risk from coal mining worldwide, a report released by Fern during the Paris…
