The Mayan communities in southern Belize are celebrating a great victory” having successfully convinced the Supreme Court that they are indeed constitutionally entitled to land…
From a Science Daily article” October 24: The catastrophic fires that are sweeping Southern California are consistent with what climate change models have been predicting…
The following excerpts from an article published by the Bretton Woods Projects cast doubts on the World Bank's new policy to reward avoided deforestation” particularly…
John James” from the BBC” reports about the use of satellite images in tracking timber concessions in the Republic of Congo. “The Mbendjele people of…
An international team of scientists” including experts from Singapore” has proven for the first time that deforestation increases the risk of flood disasters” which kill…
The Rainforest Foundation recently publicized the findings of a World Bank internal report criticizing the Bank's forest policy in DRC (see the press release on…
Meeting at the United Nations on September 24th” a group of countries which share about half of the world's tropical rainforests urged measures to combat…
This article by Ole Kamuaro was published in the East African Business Week on October 1st. The trend towards the commercialisation of tourism schemes disguised…
From the Sydney Morning Herald: A multibillion-dollar plan to protect forests and reduce global warming is to be backed by an alliance of nations that…
This article tells the tale of Gloría Gaia” a Brazilian forest farmer who helped to motivate a long-term research project in the Brazilian Amazon. This…
After more than two decades of debate” the United Nations General Assembly today adopted a landmark declaration outlining the rights of the world’s estimated 370…
The former chief of the US Forest Service” Dale Bosworth” and a forest policy analyst” Hutch Brown” have just published an article in the Journal…
This article was published in the New York Times. TEGUCIGALPA”Honduras” Sept. 6 — There is no way to stop hurricanes” but two fiercestorms that slammed…
An article published in the Hindu highlights the necessity to balance conservation and livelihoods concerns” so as not to alienate the communities who inhabit the…
Below is an Op-Ed authored by the Rights and Resources Initiative” invited by the Guardian and published in the Guardian on August 15th. Click here…
As a follow-up to our previous blog” here is another online article summarizing the findings of the last RRI/ITTO report. RIO BRANCO” BRAZIL (16 July…
The conference on Commmunity Forest Management organized in Brazil by RRI and ITTO is gaining international media attention. The following is an article published on…
RRI partner Forest Trends published a new report in their series on China and Forest Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region. The report is titled Environmental Aspects…
An article in the Washington Post recounts the difficulties to grant Amazonian tribes the rights they are entitled to when those tribes are largely unknown….
Forest Peoples Programmehas recently published a new report highlighting the potential threatsto indigenous peoples and local communities from climate changemitigation initiatives like “Avoided Deforestation” (AD)…
A new opinion article in the Wall Street Journal highlights bold policyand institutional forest sector reforms in China and laggingimplementation of JFM in India. China…
The Jerusalem Post published an account of life on both sides of a forest shared by Palestinians and Israelis: LydiaAisenberg – A large forest of…
Geneva/Nairobi” 22 June 2007 – Sudan is unlikely to see a lasting peace unless widespread and rapidly accelerating environmental degradation is urgently addressed. A new…
The first Mozambican national forest inventory in more than a decade has shown that 51 percent of the country's surface is covered with forest” and…