News & Events
Livelihoods and Landscapes Workshop, March 2008
Livelihoods and Landscapes brings together partner organizations in
03 Mar 2008 | Event
Adaptation to Climate Change in Mediterranean Forest Conservation and Management, April 2008
How can we increase forest and social resilience to major disturbances, such as large scale fires, which are exacerbated by climate change in the Mediterranean region? This will be the topic of conversation at a workshop to be held in
02 Mar 2008 | Event
China important to African timber producers
China’s role in Africa’s timber trade is an important one. Although imports from Africa make up a small proportion of China’s total timber imports, China is the main destination of up to 90% of timber for some producer countries on the continent. …
29 Feb 2008 | News story
Illegal logging estimated to cost world more than US$10 billion pa
Illegal logging is estimated to cost the world more than US$10 billion annually – more than six times the total amount of development assistance directed towards sustainable forest management. …
29 Feb 2008 | News story
Launch of reform agenda in Liberia
A new report, launched in Monrovia today, proposes formalizing customary Liberian land ownership by registering it as private property. This would signal the launch of a reform agenda that would restore the forest land rights of the overwhelming majority of Liberia’s rural populations; made up of poor agrarian families and clans. …
30 Jan 2008 | International news release
Making REDD Work for the Poor
IUCN, in collaboration with the Poverty and Environment Partnership (PEP), hosted an event during the Bali conference on climate change. As part of a full day devoted to the role of forests in climate change, organized by CIFOR, IUCN helped to ensure that social issues and linkages to poverty reduction were high on the agenda. …
09 Dec 2007 | Project description
The Forests Dialogue - Scoping Dialogue on Forests and Climate,
9 December 2007
With increased recognition of the value of forests in the climate change debate since the UNFCC Conference in
09 Dec 2007 | Event
New concept explored in Viet Nam: Fire ecology
Forests fires are a natural ecological phenomenon. Effective fire management should endeavour to exploit the positive role of fires while mitigating its negative impacts. …
07 Oct 2007 | News story
Strengthening Voices for Better Choices: Working toward better forest governance
Strengthening Voices for Better Choices (SVBC) project coordination team members from around the world met in Brazil this September to strategize how to institute improved forest governance in the Global South. …
07 Oct 2007 | News story
IUCN supports the G8’s efforts to keep illegal logging on the world’s agenda
It has been 10 years since the G8 first identified illegal logging as an issue of concern. Since then, international momentum on illegal logging and trade has shifted from the G8 to sub-regional and regional Forest Law Enforcement and Governance ministerial conference processes and to national and bilateral level action at both the producer and consumer country level. …
12 Jun 2007 | News story
