Deep inside a logging concession in southern Cameroon, scientists from the Center for International Forestry Research are measuring the carbon content of a huge tree, selectively felled by a timber company. They’re hoping to bolster scientific eviden…
Félicien Kengoum and I are in a motor boat in the middle of the Congo River. We’re returning from the remote village of Lukolela, heading downstream towards the capital. Félicien – a Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) research…
His skin flecked with specks of sawdust, 58 year-old Dieudonné Ngomo* wields his chainsaw with casual ease. He expertly cuts a straight plank from the fallen tree at his feet. “I won’t lie to you – we do this in secret,” he says. “But it is …
At a recent roundtable meeting in Singapore, the Secretary-General of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), Darryl Webber, stated his view that “the RSPO is flying”. The great achievement of the RSPO is that it has united a wide variety of…
Despite becoming one of China’s fastest expanding and most valuable forest land uses, bamboo’s role in livelihoods and rural development is poorly understood. Detailed quantitative data from 240 households were used to study the contribution of bam…
