Regional workshops addressing government forestry classification practices were recently held in the towns of Edea and Kribi” Cameroon. The meetings were organized by Cameroon Ecology”…
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…
Rights and Resources Initiative” International Tropical Timber Organization and the Cameroon Ministry of Forests and Wildlife are pleased to announce the international conference Forest Tenure”…
On August 12-14″ 2008″ community leaders” government representatives” researchers and members of the RRI coalition met in Edéa” Cameroon to discuss alternative models for tenure…
On May 9th” 2008 in Lomié” in the department of Haut Nyong” Eastern Province” Cameroon” a group of community forestry leaders and advocates took a…
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…
Following the successful Forest Day workshop held in Bali during the UNFCCC COP 13 meetings in December 2007″ CIFOR and counterparts are now organizing a…
Over the last few months” REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) has quickly emerged as one of the most prominent mechanisms under consideration for…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Yaounde” Cameroon – Government officials” researchers” and civil society leaders from West and Central Africa convened today in Yaounde to share experiences and assess the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…