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Looking back on Forest Day
DOHA, Qatar (2 December, 2012)_The world’s top forestry experts and high-profile decision makers gathered on the sidelines of the UN Climate…
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Brave new world: the global trends changing the future of deforestation
DOHA, Qatar (30 November 2012)_Global trends will intensify the underlying causes of deforestation over the coming decades – unless all…
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Postcards from the Field: Lukolela Lullaby
The Lukolela Police Commander’s rusting Kalashnikov is digging into my thigh as we lunge into the forest on his equally…
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Counting carbon: Measuring carbon stocks in logging concessions in Cameroon
Deep inside a logging concession in southern Cameroon, scientists from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) are measuring the…
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Postcards from the field: On the Congo River
Félicien Kengoum and I are in a small motor boat in the middle of the Congo River. We’re returning from…
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Cutting through: Formalising Cameroon’s huge domestic timber market
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (14 November, 2012)_Shirtless and muscular, his skin flecked with specks of sawdust, 58 year-old Dieudonné Ngomo* wields his…
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Bushmeat Stories: Voices from the Congo Basin
The Hunter: Armed with a long spear, a machete, and a wire for setting traps, Tamanga Ekwayoli is chasing wildlife.…
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Postcards from the field: Porcupines and Proposals in Cameroon
Thwack! Mama Odette brings the machete down hard on her dirt floor, neatly splitting a bush mango in two. While…
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Taming Okok: Domesticating forest foods in Cameroon
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (14 November, 2012)_For villagers in Cameroon’s Central region, the forest creeper known as okok is a wonder plant.…
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Up the river & paddling hard: Climate adaptation & mitigation in the Congo
LUKOLELA, Democratic Republic of Congo (14 November, 2012)_Every year around March 3, the villagers of Lukolela were prepared. They did…
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