by John C. Cannon, originally published on Mongabay Gender-based violence shakes communities in the wake of forest loss Women in the province of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea say they have faced increasing domestic violence, along with issues like teenage pregnancy and drug abuse, in their communities as…
by Global Forest Coalition and GRAIN One important lesson that we can draw from the COVID-19 pandemic that impacted almost every country in the world is that agro-industrial livestock production…
Ahead of our webinar on “Climate finance for tree plantations and bioenergy, and why these false solutions must not be subsidised with public money”, we’ve published a case study on…
As part of the #OurNatureIsNotYourSolution campaign we're launching this special edition of our magazine Forest Cover, written in collaboration with our member groups. Forest Cover highlights how hype around NBS…
May 22nd is International Day for Biological Diversity, and the theme chosen by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) this year is “Our solutions are in nature”. This…
The Women’s Major Group has published this powerful statement in response to the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) President’s letter to UNEA’s Ministerial Declaration. The statement links the current coronovirus crisis…
by Kristina Bäck, Protect the Forest, Sweden Sweden’s state-owned forestry company Sveaskog have announced that they will sell another 10,400 hectares of forest, more than 2,000 hectares of which are…
Perspectives from the Global South and the path to an alternative model of sustainable livestock farming On International Day of Peasant Struggle, we are delighted to launch a new report…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 8 APRIL 2020 The Global Forest Coalition, a coalition of more than 100 NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ organizations from 65 different countries, along with 27 additional groups,…
