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Saskia Ozinga

Saskia Ozinga

Co-Founder and Adviser

Saskia Ozinga is Fern’s co-founder and former Campaigns Coordinator. She has facilitated NGO coalitions to protect forests and strengthen community rights and written and published numerous books, articles and reports on forest governance, forest certification, trade and forests, effective advocacy and forests and climate. She is currently a Board member of Corporate Europe Observatory, Earthworm Foundation, Earthsight, and Ecocare.

  • Languages: Dutch, English, French, German
Saskia Ozinga

Recent publications

Thirty years of action: Interview with Fern Co-founder Saskia Ozinga

In 1995 Saskia Ozinga founded Fern with Sian Pettman. She has been integral to the unique place Fern occupies in the global forest movement and our singular way of working. In this interview, she reflects on some of the lessons of the past three decades. 

5 December 2025

CSDDD: Innovative law nearly scrapped by political bullying

The recently agreed Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD) is an extremely innovative law, although that may not be obvious from the manner in which it is limping across the finish line. The process of its...

2 April 2024

EU scheme to protect tropical forests should not be scrapped

European Union's action plan to stop illegal logging is the first to address the root causes, despite slow progress

3 February 2015

The EU’s 'stolen goods'

Recently, we have seen the emergence of a grave new threat: Tropical forests are now being destroyed not so much for their timber, but to make way for commercial agriculture — driven by the insatiable demand of the “global north” for products such as palm oil, beef and soy. The consequences, both for the fight against climate change and for forest-dependent communities, are catastrophic.

18 March 2015

A year on from FLEGT licensing - VPA Update, November 2017

LoggingOff and Fern publish occasional Forest Watch updates detailing events in countries negotiating a Voluntary Partnership Agreement from a civil society perspective. In the November 2017 edition, the main article focuses on...

15 November 2017

A new beginning in the fight against illegal timber

The first batch of timber considered legal under Europe’s most innovative ever anti-illegal logging policy arrived in the UK this month. 

The timber’s seven week voyage across around 20,000 kilometres of ocean - from the heat and...

11 January 2017

Catching it all: Making EU illegal logging policies work better for people and forests

This report explores how trade in agricultural commodities undermines important EU timber trade reforms. It recommends a course of action that extends Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade-like mechanisms to agricultural...

27 March 2015

Strategies to Prevent Illegal Logging

This article was written by Saskia Ozinga and Hannah Mowat for the second edition of "A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy." It compares the EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Action Plan (FLEGT),...

27 October 2011

Footprints in the Forests

Footprints in the Forests assesses eight certification schemes and different certification trends. It is a revision of FERN's Behind the Logo Report.

1 August 2005

Behind the Logo: An environmental and social assessment of forest certification schemes

FERN's comparison of four certification schemes - the FSC, PEFC, SFI and CSA.

1 May 2001