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The rubber industry is urgently meeting EUDR regulations on traceability from large plantation rubber to smallholder rubber and imported rubber. Featuring insights from Nguyen Vinh Quang, an FPTF program analyst.

Viet Nam’s wood industry has many opportunities for recovery in 2024, with the Forest Stewardship Council certification seen as essential mark for accessing global markets. To access EU markets, FPTF Managing Director Phuc To emphasizes avoiding deforestation and ensuring legality.

En un esfuerzo conjunto para proteger los ecosistemas que generan recursos hídricos en la Reserva Nacional Salinas y Aguada Blanca (RNSAB), Arequipa, se firmó un importante acuerdo mediante el cual se destinará más de S/ 4 millones para su conservación.

For years in Bolivia, high-value woods like cedar and the mara variety of mahogany have been felled to feed domestic and international construction and furniture markets. Rampant timber trafficking in national parks and natural reserves is contributing to deforestation, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. Featuring FT data.

Timber milled in forests with chainsaws is legally restricted to the production of boards by artisanal loggers for sale on the domestic market, but reporting by Liberian newspaper The Daylight and research by U.S.-based NGO Forest Trends has found large-scale operators producing thicker blocks of high-value wood for export.

La Autoridad Nacional de Infraestructura (ANIN) con el apoyo técnico del Proyecto Infraestructura Natural para la Seguridad Hídrica (NIWS), a través de Forest Trends, ejecutará proyectos específicos en 14 cuencas a nivel nacional y restaurar 51 mil hectáreas de ecosistemas degradados y susceptibles a inundaciones y movimientos en masa en la costa norte y central […]

There have been positive signs since the Vietnamese Government committed to the goal of Net Zero Carbon Emission in 2050. According to Phuc Xuan To, Managing Director of our Forestry Policy, Trade and Finance Program, Vietnam has a high potential when taking part in the carbon market.

En un avance significativo para la adaptación al cambio climático, mediante la recuperación de los ecosistemas en la provincia de Huaral, el Gobierno Regional de Lima aprobó la ejecución del proyecto de inversión pública Cuenca Alta del río Chancay-Huaral, con una inversión total de S/ 40,5 millones.

Sustainable forest management certification (FSC) is considered the ‘visa card’ of Vietnam’s wood and wood products exported to demanding markets around the world. Phuc Xuan To, Managing Director of our FPTF team in Vietnam, emphasizes the importance of this around EUDR compliance.

In February, Liberia’s newly inaugurated president, Joseph Boakai, appointed notorious logger Rudolph Merab to head the country’s Forestry Development Authority. Environmental advocates describe Merab as an opponent of community forestry and donor-driven conservation projects. Includes FT findings on the state of Liberia’s timber industry.