Palm Watch - Africa

05/09/2022

https://www.theafricareport.com/in-depth/timber-trafficking/
Six part series. All worth reading!

Article 1/6 precious wood Article 1/6 Timber trafficking: The hidden history of looting It is a universally acknowledged truth. The continent's forests continue to deteriorate year after year. There are many reasons for this rampant deforestation. Trafficking in precious wood (kevazingo, barwood, or...

24/08/2022

Indigenous women, on the front line of the effects of deforestation

In Cameroon, three influential web actors have joined Greenpeace Africa and its partner Green Development Advocates (GDA) to lead an ecological campaign. Together, they are raising awareness about the fight against deforestation in Cameroon, as well as the protection of the rights of indigenous comm...

22/06/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/14/climate/congo-rainforest-logging.html

An interactive trip following logs down the Congo River.

22/06/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/climate/rainforest-brazil-congo.html

DRC aspires to be a climate leader.

13/05/2022

The Wangari Maathai Champions of Forests Award for 2022 has gone to Cameroon’s gender specialist and social forester. Cécile Ndjebet received the award for her extraordinary contribution to the preservation of forests and the improvement of the lives of those who rely on them. The award was prese...

05/05/2022

Through the African Women’s Network for Community Forest Management, which she co-founded in 2009, Ndjebet has become a leading voice, both in Cameroon and internationally, in creating global recognition of the importance of equality of gender in forest management.

Activist Cécile Ndjebet from Cameroon today won the Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award 2022 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to

02/08/2021

Following Gabon's example.

Exportation of timber logs from communities in Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) and Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) will be suspended from Jan. 1, 2022, a Cameroonian official said on Wednesday. Cameroon's Minister Delegate to the Minister of Economy, Planning and Regi...

09/07/2021

https://regreeningafrica.org/event/kenya-national-landscape-restoration-scaling-conference/?instance_id=82&ct=t(CIFOR_ICRAF_Kenya_landscape_restoration_event)

Online conference + webinars

REGISTER Context Kenya has made major commitments to international agreements on land restoration, climate change, and biodiversity, because there is

05/07/2021

https://efi.int/publications-bank/investing-nature-true-engine-our-economy-10-point-action-plan-circular-bioeconomy

Knowledge to Action 2 Author Marc Palahí et al Published on30.09.2020 The 10-Point Action Plan to catalyse a Circular Bioeconomy of Wellbeing is a call for collective and integrated action to global leaders, investors, companies, scientists, governments, nongovernmental and intergovernmental organi...

05/07/2021

...important and game-changing opportunities...

Africa is well positioned to harness nature-based solutions that protect biodiversity and create jobs. A UN-backed project in Gabon proves how its possible.

28/06/2021

Look to Gabon for ideas...

Africa is well positioned to harness nature-based solutions that protect biodiversity and create jobs. A UN-backed project in Gabon proves how its possible.

18/05/2021

https://www.agriculture.com/markets/newswire/african-rainforests-slow-climate-change-despite-record-heat-drought

Africa's tropical forests appear more resilient as carbon sinks than Amazonian rainforests - mopping up planet-warming carbon dioxide even when sizzling El Nino heat halted absorption in other parts of the world, researchers said on Monday.