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.

28/02/2021

https://pfbc-cbfp.org/news-partner/Illegal-logging-cidt.html

A study by the University of Wolverhampton’s Centre for International Development and Training (CIDT), has revealed that global climate goals and livelihoods of forest communities are at risk due to increased illegal logging in the forests of the Congo Basin.

18/02/2021

The webinar can be joined through the zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91273910239?pwd=QnNEUlB0alZSbTk4NHdLdER6T1U1UT09 The Meeting ID to join the webi at is : 912 7391 0239 while the Passcode is 353637.

COMSATS Centre for Climate and Sustainability (CCCS) will organise a webinar on Sustainable management of forests and challenge of deforestation in the Global South on February 18 (Thursday)

09/01/2021

Analysis by the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK), a non-profit monitoring and facilitating the implementation of the DR Congo's community concessions, found the rate of deforestation in 57 community concessions in 2019 was 23% lower than the national average and 46% lower than in logging concessions. The data, which stretches back to 2001, shows that the traditionally occupied lands (where local people have been managing the forest as effectively their own) have historically had lower levels of deforestation.

The Congo Basin contains the world's second-largest rainforest, crucial for regulating the world's climate. Inside it, a plan to halt the forest's decline is bearing fruit.

22/12/2020

Forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been disappearing at increasing speed, with annual deforestation rates exceeding 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) in the past five years and believed to have surged during the COVID-19 pandemic.

There’s a saying in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that refers to “Article 15,” a nonexistent paragraph of the country’s constitution during the Mobutu Sese Seko dictatorship in the 1970s. It stands for “figure it out yourself” and acknowledges the wide spread of corruption, impl...

17/09/2020

Podcast featuring Ekwoge Abwe, head of the Ebo Forest Research Project in Cameroon. Abwe tells us the story of how he became the first scientist to discover Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees using tools to crack open nuts and discusses ongoing efforts to safeguard Ebo Forest against the threats of oil palm expansion and logging.

On today’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast we’re discussing great ape conservation in Africa and how that goes hand-in-hand with efforts to protect the second-largest rainforest in the world. Listen here: We welcome to the program Ekwoge Abwe, head of the Ebo Forest Research Project in Cameroon...

29/08/2020

When an oil palm development in the poor West African country of Liberia uprooted indigenous communities, destroying their religious shrines and burial grounds, and moved to cut down the last major swath of tropical rainforest in the region, lawyer Alfred Brownell jumped into action. He and his coll...