Brazil's government said it will provide free internet access to native Indian tribes in the Amazon in an effort to help protect the world's biggest…
Mumbai” India” is struggling to prevent its growing population of 17million from infringing on the world's largest urban forest. Thisthreatens the biodiversity of the forest…
In the last week a controversy has emerged in Uganda over the governmental project to turn over part of the Mabira Central Reserve Forest to…
Just released – A new Earthscan forestry title” published with CIFOR: ILLEGAL LOGGING: Law Enforcement” Livelihoods and the Timber Trade Edited by Luca Tacconi Foreword…
World Forestry Day commemorates the contribution and value of forests and forestry to the community. It has been celebrated around the world for 30 years…
ADDIS ABABA” March 20 – Participatory forest management is proving a viable approach in the protection and maintenance of the environment in a country that…
More on the conflict in Chhattisgarh” highlighted on the front page of The New York Times on March 15th. The New York Times: Suspected Maoist…
ETFRN News: Forests and the Millennium Development Goals The Winter 2006-07 Issue of ETFRN News (No. 47-48) focuses on the role of forests in achieving…
War in the Heart of India: an enquiry into the ground situation in Dantewara District” Chhattisgarh A six member team of independent citizens from Delhi”…
In the midst of the forest” it tops the charts in violence: Not eventhe Mayor has secure land tenure in Colniza (MT)” one of the…
This month” the UNFF Secretariat Online Forum is hosting a discussionon the benefits and challenges associated with community-based forestmanagement. The guest contributor for this discussion…
March 12-17 2007″ RRI is hosting a series of meetings in Yaounde” Cameroon. Meetings will advance the work of the Alternative Tenure and Business Model…
In Niger” Trees and Crops Turn Back the Desert February 11″ 2007 Lydia Polgreen New York Times Guidan Bakoye” Niger — In this dust-choked region”…
A Brazilian government plan set to go into effect this year will bring large-scale logging deep into the heart of the Amazon rain forest for…
Leaders of the Uru- Eu- Wau-Wau Indigenous Land request an emergency solution This Wednesday” leaders of the Uru- Eu- Wau-Wau Indigenous Land in the municipality…
On December 11th and 12th 2006″ Andy White presented at the US Forest Service Dialogue on Issues and Challenges for US forests and the US…
Conservation goes back to its roots Ashish Kothari International Herald Tribune 16 November 2006 DawaTsering Sherpa never thought he would see this day. Standing in…
On November 8″ 2006 the Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) to the International Tropical Timber Organization(ITTO) gave a formal presentation of the Rights and ResourcesInitiative…
In October” an informal group of public forest agency leaders met at the Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford” Pennsylvania (USA). The meeting was…
Forest plantations” highlighted in the September 2006 edition of arborvitae” the IUCN/WWF Forest Conservation Newsletter. Including: Forest Plantations: the good” the bad and the ugly….
September 25th to 27th” founding partners of the RedForestal met in the ICAES center in San José” Costa Rica. The main objective of the workshop was…
Communities that live and work in forest settings would seemunlikely sites for conflict. But tension exists even in these quietrural settings – most commonly reflected…
RRG led a series of state and national level workshops for the dissemination of a recently completed sector report” India: Unlocking Opportunities for Forest Dependent…
A newly released World Bank report states that with greater communitycontrol over forest management” income from forests could rise from anestimated US$ 222 million in…