It is a pretty well accepted truth that "He who ignores history is doomed to repeat it." Commenting on the economic trends in Italy, where he was American ambassador, George Perkins Marsh wrote something in 1864 that would be current and accurate if it was printed in a major newspaper today...
All global forest info at your mousecklick...
RABBLE |
13 years 10 months ago
TIME |
13 years 11 months ago
For years, the guardians of Sorng Rukavorn forest have drifted through the muted greens and grays of the underbrush in their saffron robes. In the far north of Cambodia, the monks live in what should be peaceful isolation, but all too often they have had to fend off incursions on this land. Using...
Climate Capacity |
13 years 11 months ago
MJUMITA is a network of around 500 community forest groups in 420 Tanzanian villages in 23 districts – with an estimated 6000 individual members. Most members are small farmers or bee-keepers and other forest users living close to the Tanzanian forests, which are mainly government property. Ms....
Global Policy Journal |
13 years 11 months ago
The Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the successor states to the European colonial empires of sub-Saharan Africa, contains staggering natural resources – including the second largest remaining block of intact rainforests one earth. On the face of it, the DRC (profiled by the CIA here) should...
FAO |
13 years 11 months ago
10 May 2011, Rome/Sun City - Whilst changing climatic conditions may be exacerbating the growing number of mega-fires round the world, these fires may also themselves be a contributing factor to global warming, said FAO in a report presented today at the 5th International Wildland Fire Conference...
EFI |
13 years 11 months ago
The project “Research into the Organization of Private Forest Owners’ Interest Associations in the Western Balkan Region (PRIFORT)” focused on the following four countries of the Western Balkan region: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia.
Rights and Resources |
13 years 11 months ago
EFI |
13 years 11 months ago
EFI |
13 years 11 months ago
The European Union and the Government of Liberia, which presides over half of the remaining rainforest in West Africa, announced today a landmark agreement to ensure that all Liberian timber products exported from Liberia to the EU are derived from legal sources and that the resulting trade will...
Paper Index Times |
13 years 11 months ago
Oxenøen, Norway, May 3, 2011 - Norske Skog sells forest areas in Brazil as part of the work to improve the company's financial position Norske Skog has entered into an agreement with CMNPAR Four Participacoes S.A., a Brazilian company advised by Global Forest Partners LP, a US based, SEC...
ForestCarbon Portal |
13 years 11 months ago
Our objective was to compare and evaluate the practical applicability to REDD+ of ten forest management, social, environmental and carbon standards that are currently active worldwide: Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB), CCB REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards (CCBA REDD+ S&E),...
RUNA |
13 years 11 months ago
Transparency International |
13 years 11 months ago
The impacts of climate change will be felt all over the world, in developed and developing countries alike. At risk are billions of dollars but more importantly the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. Corruption cannot be allowed to jeopardise efforts to combat climate change.
Africa Science News |
13 years 11 months ago
A collaborative partnership on forests, bringing together 14 international organizations working to protect and manage the world’s forests has Wednesday called for governments across the globe to increase communities’ role in forest management. Doing so could contribute to lifting close to a...
The Independent |
13 years 11 months ago
Corruption is threatening global steps to combat climate change, a new report from Transparency International (TI) warned yesterday. Billions of pounds will be plundered and wasted, it says, unless stronger measures are introduced against embezzlement and misappropriation.
Forest Blade |
13 years 11 months ago
Landowners in Emanuel County who grow timber expect that, with time, those trees will be cut, the logs sold, processed, and used for building, paper products or energy. In 1936, there were 21.4 million acres of forestland in Georgia and, in 2004, 24.8 million acres. To borrow a phrase from the...
Stabroek News |
13 years 11 months ago
A report by the Times of India earlier this month that an Indian company, Vaitarna Holdings, controlled 1.82M acres of Guyanese forest deservedly captured media scrutiny here.
Ghana WEB |
13 years 11 months ago
Akyawkrom (Ash), April 28, GNA - Participants at a workshop that sought to define the different roles of stakeholders in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) have underlined the need for a clear focus in the management of forest resources. They said it was...
Bangladesh News Today |
13 years 11 months ago
Climate-Connections |
13 years 11 months ago
Silvia Ribeiro is a researcher with ETCgroup; this was translated from her article in La Jornada, 23 Apr 2011. Source: http://mecteam.blogspot.com