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In Bangladesh, a community comes together to save a life-giving forest
19 May 2022
Several tribal settlements are spread across Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region, each with its own communally managed forest that residents can use. But the unchecked exploitation of the once-rich forests, a consequence of population growth, has led to local water holes drying up,…
Land Cover Monitoring System For Nepal Launched
29 April 2022
The Forest Research and Training Centre (FRTC) is pleased to announce the launch of Nepal’s National Land Cover Monitoring System (NLCMS) to mark Earth Day. The system uses cloud computing and artificial intelligence to generate consistent data on how much of a region is covered by forests,…
Outcry in Malaysia as failure to replant forests sparks ‘cover-up’ accusation
15 April 2022
Critics of a government plantation scheme have slammed the program following revelations that only a fraction of forest reserves cleared for plantations over the past decade have actually been replanted. An investigation by environmental news site Macaranga found that only 5% of the 77,331 hectares…
Projects
Harapan Rainforest - Pilot Restoration of a Degraded Forest Ecosystem on Sumatra
Duration: October 2009 - December 2013
Value: $20,000,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
By maintaining and protecting 101,000 ha of rainforest in the provinces of Jambi and South Sumatra, the first areas to be designated for ecosystem restoration in Indonesia, some 15.2 million tonnes of CO2 are to be securely stored over a 30-year period to serve as a model for how inactive production
Climate protection through forest conservation in Pacific Island States
Duration: December 2010 - March 2015
Value: $7,200,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
The project aims to preserve forest ecosystems in the Pacific and thus contribute to climate change mitigation. To this end it is supporting three island states in creating the conditions necessary for par-ticipation in an international financing mechanism for reducing emissions from the forest sect
Protecting Tropical Forests in the Guiana Shield Ecological Region
Duration: October 2009 - December 2013
Value: $5,200,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
The project targets efforts to preserve the largest contiguous tropical forest complex in the world in three countries with areas located within the so-called Guiana Shield (Guyana, Surinam and Brazil). To this end, the project supports comprehensive conservation area management in the Brazilian sta
Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use
Duration: December 2014 - December 2023
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To support public-private partnerships that demonstrate how companies, communities, smallholders and governments can work collaboratively to reduce deforestation and benefit forest dependent communities. Land is one component of this programme.
Co-management Amazon Peru
Duration: January 2013 - June 2017
Value: $2,500,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
The effects of climate change and the advanced deforestation in the Amazon region pose a threat to the livelihood of the local population and biodiversity. Protection efforts in communal reserves have had little success to date because the indigenous communities were not involved in the protection m
Forest protection and the management of natural resources in Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru
Duration: November 2012 - October 2017
Value: $3,373,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
The purpose of the project is to conserve natural resources in Peru's Manu Biosphere Reserve, home to a unique and rich biological diversity. To this end, it assists the local population in managing natural resources. Measures include: utilisation agreements, development and dissemination of environ
In the Philippines, community forestry can help the climate agenda, and vice versa
28 October 2021
In conversation with Heidi Mendoza The Filipino government can generate new momentum and resources for its longstanding community-based forest management programme, by placing it more centrally in its climate policies. This could benefit forest-dependent communities, but only if mistakes from the…
CFS Side Event: How the VGGT have changed rural women's lives: Key strategies and innovations towards gender equality
15 October 2019
The purpose of the side event is to showcase key strategies and innovations that are contributing to gender equality in agriculture and land tenure in the context of the VGGT. It will present how collaboration among different stakeholders at national, regional and global level can support the…
