The SMURF project aims to empower a multitude of beneficiaries. At its core are small forest owners, over 16 million individuals who will gain access to new tools, knowledge, and support structures to manage their land sustainably.
Deforestation is the primarily result of the expansion of agricultural land for forest risk commodities (FRCs) such as cattle, wood, palm oil, soy, cocoa, coffee and rubber. These FRCs play a significant role in driving deforestation in tropical countries and the…
In an effort to combat deforestation and promote tools which enhance global monitoring and supply chain traceability, Preferred by Nature and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have joined forces within the Forest Data Partnership. The primary objective was to establish a standardised geolocation data sharing protocol, a crucial step…
Forest ecosystems are under intense pressure from our rising population and its hunger for more land and resources. Globally, we are losing about 4.7 million hectares of tropical forest every year, often to make space for agricultural commodities (decadeonrestoration.org). Forest landscape restoration is a critical strategy for tackling this…
Skove er vigtige for det globale kulstofkredsløb, kulstofbinding- og lagring. Selv om Vietnam øger det samlede skovdække, er der sket et fald i både det samlede antal hektar naturlige skove og i skovkvaliteten.
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Som en del af vores bestræbelser på at støtte lovlig træhandel er Preferred by Nature vært for et webinar om lovlig træimport fra Rusland og Ukraine.…
ATIBT and Preferred by Nature are offering a joint webinar on the use of forest certification within…
Preferred by Nature har lanceret en guide til aktører til at forstå indvirkningen på handel med træ og træprodukter, når Storbritannien forlader EU.
På trods af EU Tømmerforordningen (EUTR) er EU fortsat et af verdens største markeder for handel med ulovligt tømmer. Det skal…
In the rural communities of Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, opportunities to earn a stable living are hard to come by.…