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22 October 2015 DR Congo
Artisanal logger demonstrates to students of the University of Kisangani that sustainable forest management is possible when the right logging techniques are adopted.
21 October 2015 DR Congo
In DR Congo, artisanal loggers complain of the multiple charges and taxes they pay. It seems that the origin and nature of certain taxes and fees are not clear. In 2015, TBI DR Congo conducted a study to list the fees collected from the artisanal loggers. It has been found that a total of 27 fees are collected from which 21 are legal and 6 are illegal.
21 October 2015 DR Congo
Artisanal loggers from the Province Orientale in DR Congo were sensitized on the regulation of artisanal logging sector, legal taxes and legal associations of artisanal loggers as part of an awareness campaign organized from September 24 to October 8, 2015 by Tropenbos International DR Congo.
19 October 2015 Colombia
Carlos Rodriguez, TBI Colombia’s program director, received a tribute during the IV Latin American Ethnobiology Congress “Weaving the Memory and the Biocultural Future of Latin America and the Caribbean”, and the V Colombian Ethnobiology Congress “Singing, Narrating, and Healing: the Biocultural Memory of Colombia”, which took place in Popayán, Colombia from 28 September to 2 October, 2015.
19 October 2015 Ghana
Only eight percent of the youth within the age range of 26 to 35 years living in forest fringe communities are involved in any form of tree plantation activities, according to a research conducted by Tropenbos International (TBI) Ghana under its Landscape Restoration Project (LRP).
07 October 2015 Viet Nam
An exchange of knowledge and information on local livelihoods and vulnerability among REDD and PES projects in the Mekong river delta region took place at the workshop “Monitoring and Evaluating Livelihoods and Vulnerability Indicators of PES and REDD Projects” (11 September 2015). Additionally methodologies and data where shared to develop a database of baseline Reference Livelihoods and Vulnerability Levels (RLVL) from pilot PES and REDD projects in Viet Nam.