Indonesia’s climate change credentials have suffered a serious set back after a key player in the country’s illegal logging business was acquitted of criminal charges over the destruction of 58,000 ha of virgin Sumatran forest, according to a report in The Australian newspaper.
Businessman Adelin Lis was the subject of an international manhunt and what Sumatran […]

On December 11, World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick launched a groundbreaking financing mechanism to combat tropical deforestation and climate change. The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) was developed because some forests are more important left standing than cut. It will reduce deforestation and forest degradation by compensating developing countries for carbon dioxide reductions realised by maintaining […]

One of the world’s largest brands of cut-sheet paper has earned Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain-of-Custody certification from the Rainforest Alliance’s SmartWood program.
Xerox Corporation will now be able to purchase and sell FSC-certified paper at 77 distribution centres in 17 countries in North America and Europe - covering the greatest geographic area of any FSC […]

Forestry Tasmania’s operating profit had been cut from A$25 million to just over $500,000 in the past four years, the company revealed at Government Business Enterprise hearings last week.
Forestry chief executive Bob Gordon blamed the loss on tough trading conditions with a volatile market, a substantial drop in wood sales, and rising contractor costs, according […]

Ghana’s forest cover has declined by more than 75% since the country gained independence in 1957, according to a report in the Accra Mail.
Ghana’s Forestry Minister, Esther Obeng Dapaah, told the annual general meeting of the Ghana Timber Association that forest cover in the country now stood at below 2 Mha, compared to 8 Mha […]

Peru President Alan Garcia has criticized those who question Peru’s active natural resource utilisation, and emphasized the need for Peru to continue its utilisation of such resources, the Tropical Forest Trust reported.
President of Peru’s Exporters Association Lumber Committee, Herbert Frey, said exporters in the sector accepted the President’s challenge to better use natural resources, but […]