Keeping REDD accountable to forest-dependent poor
Keeping REDD accountable to forest-dependent poor

Making REDD Work for the Forest-Dependent Poor: Civil Society Perspectives from the South In a joint policy statement released by RRI Partner Federation of Community…

Forest Day Cameroon
Forest Day Cameroon

In response to recently-observed climatic changes in Cameroon” RRI Partner CIFOR organized Forest Day Cameroon” held in Yaoundé on 24 April 2008. The occasion” intended…

Villagers help expose illegal logging in Indonesia
Villagers help expose illegal logging in Indonesia

In films recently released in Jakarta and London” Indonesian villagersin Papua helped expose illegal logging and forest devastation by usingdigital and video cameras to record…

Community forestry bill passed in Thailand
Community forestry bill passed in Thailand

On November 21st the Thai National Legislative Assembly passed a community forestry bill that grants legal rights to forest communities to preserve and manage forest…

Deforestation increases flooding risks
Deforestation increases flooding risks

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…

Conservation vs. Livelihoods?
Conservation vs. Livelihoods?

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…

Forests and the Millennium Development Goals
Forests and the Millennium Development Goals

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…

12-17 March 2007: Meetings in Yaounde” Cameroon
12-17 March 2007: Meetings in Yaounde” Cameroon

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…

CSAG presents RRI
CSAG presents RRI

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…

Forest Plantations: the good” the bad and the ugly
Forest Plantations: the good” the bad and the ugly

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….

Cameroon's local forest management out on a limb
Cameroon's local forest management out on a limb

From CIFOR news” January 2006″ Number 40: Following many years of poor forest management under central government control” countries around the world are shifting forest…