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Taraba State of Nigeria is aiming to becoming the second REDD Pilot State in the country after Cross River, which is on the verge of accessing funds set aside under the climate change mitigation programme. However, while it took Cross River State several years to attain this status, Taraba,...

The UK Government recently made an embarrassing U-turn on their proposal to sell off 18% of England’s forests. This was largely due to the energies of a host of vocal opposition groups across the country. Key arguments centred around the risk that private ownership would reduce public access and...

Until now the Suriname forest sector (both commercial loggers and community based forestry) lacks an appropriate set of rules and regulations for sustainable forest use and management.

Internet resources for knowledge sharing among the forest community are offered by Andy Alm and Jack Byrne of IUCN CEC. Reprinted from arborvitae 42: Communicating Forest Values

The sixth continuing resolution (H J Res 48) of Fiscal Year 2011 passed into law this week that will fund the federal US government through April 8th. The spending bill included an overall $6 billion dollars in reduced spending from current levels. The savings came from a number of program...

here are a billion hungry people in the world and that number could rise as food insecurity increases along with population growth, economic fallout and environmental crises. But a roadmap to defeating hunger exists, if we can follow the course -- and that course involves ditching corporate-...

There has been good news recently for America’s national forests, and some that could have been better. On the decidedly plus-side was a decision by a federal district judge in Anchorage reinstating a Clinton-era rule prohibiting logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The Tongass is home...

For more than three years, the world has been trying to implement a practical way to tackle greenhouse-gas emissions from forests. Known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), the initiative was launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali in...