Govenrment officials have said that logging must stop on nearly 13 Mha of forest in the DRC after a government review canceled nearly 60% of the vast country’s timber contracts. The Congo is home to the second largest tropical forest in the world after the Amazon. A long-delayed review of 156 logging contracts intended to […]

Sawlog prices fell 5-12% worldwide in the third quarter of 2008 as lumber markets weakened. Reduced consumption of lumber in North America and Europe in the 3Q/08 resulted in lower demand for sawlogs and declining prices for softwood timber, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ). Because wood costs account for 65-75% of the production […]

A lack of technology needed to explore and monitor vast regions of tropical rain forest has been a critical bottleneck for earth scientists, conservationists, and forest managers. As a result, there is a limited understanding of the composition and function of these forests and how they are responding to clearing, invasive plants, climate change, and […]

The Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF) is a multi donor fund set up to take early action to protect the forests in the Congo Basin region. The Fund invites proposals for transformative and innovative initiatives from the governments, civil society and private sector of the Congo Basin to slow the rate of deforestation, through developing […]

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) confirmed in an assessment released today that PEFC’s sustainable forest management standards and procedures continue to meet UK government requirements for sustainable timber. The assessment found that all forest certification schemes commonly encountered in tenders and sales to the UK central government - PEFC International […]