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20 October 2014 Colombia
In recent years, Daniel Matapí became from a learner, a facilitator and a field guide to a teacher, a leader and a loyal friend. Thanks to his research and his delicate weaving of relationships among indigenous and “white people”, and among different ethnic groups, he will be remembered as an important person in the dialogue of knowledge, necessary for the indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon.
16 October 2014 Ghana
Artisanal milling has been introduced in Ghana as an alternative to illegal chainsaw milling that supplies more than 80% of the domestic timber market demand. Analysis of the economic feasibility of artisanal milling shows that legal timber production for the domestic market in Ghana cannot be profitable given the unfair competition of illegally produced timber.
08 October 2014 the Netherlands
Developments in sectors such as agriculture, mining, wood production, water management and fisheries largely shape the world’s current and future biodiversity, as they exert direct pressures on biodiversity. These sectors depend on biodiversity and ecosystems in various ways to provide food, fibre, wood, bio‐energy, fish and clean water for the world’s growing human population. The wood production sector is dependent on forest ecosystems and their goods and services. On the one hand it can be a major contributor to forest biodiversity loss, on the other it can help maintain high levels of biodiversity through responsible management of forest ecosystems. The demand for wood based products such as timber, wood fuel, pulp and paper will increase in the future. Therefore there is a clear need for options to reduce biodiversity loss while maintaining wood production. These are some of the challenges presented in the report “How Sectors Can Contribute to Sustainable Use and Conservation of Biodiversity” that served as scientific basis to the fourth Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-4) that was presented during the Twelfth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 12) in Pyeongchang, Korea.
30 September 2014 Indonesia
Until now, TBI Indonesia occupied two offices - in Balikpapan and in FORDA building, Bogor. In June 2014, TBI moved to Jl. A. Yani, Bogor. A traditional Javanese “Wayang Kulit” performance enlivened the opening of Tropenbos International Indonesia’s new office on Friday, 19 September 2014. The performance presented a story titled “Sumilaking Pedhut Wirata” or “The Vanishing Fog of Wirata”, a part of the popular epic of Mahabharata. The performance was special because the dalang (the storyteller) was not a professional artist, but Dr. Edi Purwanto, the Program Director of TBI Indonesia. Dr. Purwanto said that combining culture and forest management is viewed as something crucial at landscape level.
30 September 2014 DR Congo
A series of workshops on FLEGT-VPA and artisanal logging where held in different territories of the Province Orientale in DR Congo, from 13 to 27 September 2014. The main aim of these trainings was to raise awareness about the process of negotiation of FLEGT-VPA in DR Congo among local actors.
25 September 2014 DR Congo
A training on FLEGT-VPA and artisanal logging for local actors was held from 2 to 4 September 2014in Kisangani, Province Orientale, DR Congo, as part of the project "FLEGT-VPA: exploitation and legal timber trade everybody's business"