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Rwanda Launches Plan to Reverse Environmental Degradation
Rwanda, the most densely populated nation in Sub-Saharan Africa, has launched a national plan to reverse the current degradation of…
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Forests to be a hot topic in 2011
Eduardo Rojas-Briales is the Assistant Director-General of the FAO Forestry Department and chair of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF).…
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Stewart Maginnis on Poverty and Forest Restoration
Stewart Maginnis is the Head of the Forest Conservation Programme at the International Union for Conservation of Nature. He has…
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Putting a positive spin on forests
Jan McAlpine is the Director of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) which addresses all aspects of forests –…
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Biodiversity goals need to be integrated into forest policy
Some of the targets agreed upon during 2010’s International Year of Biodiversity could potentially spark key actions during the recently…
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Nobel Laureate, Wangari Maathai speaks at the opening of the UN International Year of Forests
In 1977, Professor Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in Kenya. Since then, the movement has planted more than…
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A Year to rethink, replant and realise that we can’t survive on a denuded planet
On Wednesday, the United Nations declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests, as part of a campaign to raise…
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