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Wood and Paper-Based Product Procurement: 10 Things You Should Know

April 1, 2008

Coastal Eutrophic and Hypoxic Areas of Africa

March 27, 2008

This map identifies only 20 eutrophic coastal zones in all of Africa, of which 8 have documented hypoxia and 12 are areas of concern.

Unfair Forestry Policies Abet Poverty, Finds New Study

March 13, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Unfair government policies fail to benefit poor people who live in the forests of many developing countries. Those same policies fail even to protect forests, according to a new study.

Leading Companies Responding to Ecosystem Degradation

March 10, 2008
Location: Montreux, Switzerland

Corporate Ecosystem Services Review road-tested by Akzo Nobel,

BC Hydro, Mondi, Rio Tinto, and Syngenta

Greenwatch Uganda Champions Information Rights

By Lalanath de Silva on March 4, 2008
Location: Uganda

Laws alone are not enough to ensure environmental protection. Civil society organizations often play a critical role in bringing those laws to life. In Uganda, Greenwatch has done exactly that for the country’s laws on access to environmental information, the first of which passed in 1998.

Video - Foresters Collude with Merchants: Coercing the Mayor to Cut the Forest

By Jesse Ribot on February 12, 2008
Location: Senegal

These films show how Senegal’s Forestry service, forest merchants, and other government agents are blocking local governments from playing their legal role in forest management and use.

Immigration Linked to Degraded Ecosystem

By Karen Bennett on January 17, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Border security is not typically recognized as being tied to environmental changes, but in this recent article by The New York Times, the links are clear. It details how declining fish catches in northwest Africa are fueling immigration to Europe.

Logging Concessions and Protected Areas in the Republic of Congo

January 14, 2008

Forest Landscapes Initiative

WRI seeks to increase the ability of governments, businesses, and civil society to protect intact forest landscapes, manage working forests more effectively, and restore deforested lands.

The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid

March, 2007

Discussions of base of the economic pyramid (BOP) markets have, until now, relied principally on business case studies and rough estimates of market size. The Next 4 Billion uses previously unreleased data to measure market opportunity at the BOP.

Interactive Forestry Atlas of Cameroon (version 2.0)

Benoit Mertens, Matthew Steil, Lawrence Ayenika Nsoyuni, Gideon Neba Shu, Susan Minnemeyer

March, 2007

This interactive atlas tool allows users to access the most complete and up-to-date information on the Cameroon forest sector – timber extraction areas, forest concession management plan status, volume of timber logged by concession area, and more.

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