MegaFlorestais

Fifteenth Annual Meeting of MegaFlorestais: The Evolution of Forest Management on the Path to 2030 The fifteenth meeting of MegaFlorestais was held in the state of Pará, in northcentral Brazil from August 19–22, 2024. The week’s activities were hosted by the Brazilian Forest Service, led by Director Garo Batmanian. The meeting began in Alter do Chão […]

Fourteenth Annual Meeting of MegaFlorestais: Transforming Forest Management, Delivering Climate and Conservation Solutions  The fourteenth meeting of MegaFlorestais, and the first since the Covid-19 pandemic, took place in South Lake Tahoe, California, United States from June 26–29, 2023 and was co-hosted by the United States Forest Service (USFS) and Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI). Forest […]

On June 21st, MegaFlorestais leaders from around the world met to share the ways their agencies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has introduced several unprecedented challenges – along with new opportunities – to the forestry sector. This conference, the third in the 2021 MegaFlorestais webinar series, featured presentations by Herman Sundqvist of the […]

On April 22, MegaFlorestais leaders from around the world gathered for the second conference of the network’s 2021 webinar series. Forest agency leaders from Mexico, Peru, Brazil, the United States, Canada, Sweden, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo joined to discuss their experiences with concessions and illegal logging. Steve Gretzinger of Zak Forest […]

Given the Covid pandemic, MegaFlorestais leaders of Canada, DRC, Mexico, Peru, Sweden, and the USA gathered on February 24 for a webinar on Global Markets in Forest Products. The purpose of the webinar was to present the latest changes in markets and investments, given all the variables of the last few years, including global trade agreements, […]

Building momentum for forestry in the bioeconomy and sustainable development The thirteenth meeting of MegaFlorestais was held in Storforsen, Vidsel, Sweden, on June 26-29, 2018 and co-hosted by the Swedish Forest Agency and the Rights and Resources Initiative. Delegations from the following countries attended the meeting: Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, India, Indonesia, Peru, Sweden, and the USA. Topics discussed […]

Each year when our forest leaders come together for MegaFlorestais—a forum for forest agency leaders from the world’s most forested countries—something different inspires and challenges me. The most recent meeting in Canada in October elicited a number of surprises, from innovations in forest products to the use of new technology to monitor forests. Big transformations are […]

Communities, Commerce, and the Bioeconomy: Innovations to Sustain the World’s Forests The twelfth meeting of MegaFlorestais was held in Vancouver and on Quadra island, in British Columbia, Canada, on October 15-20, 2017 and co-hosted by the Canadian Forest Service-Natural Resources Canada, the Rights and Resources Initiative, and the Province of British Columbia. Delegations from the following […]

This November, two pieces of good news have come from Brazilian communities that are working with the sustainable management of their forests. The Bailique Archipelago communities, in the State of Amapá, at the mouth of the Amazon River, have recently been visited by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) for an evaluation of how they manage […]

Amid political turmoil in Brazil, what will become of indigenous rights? What can Indigenous Peoples in Brazil expect from these times of rapid political change and constant turmoil? Is it possible that the new interim government will reverse the damaging trends of the previous government – now removed from power, waiting for an impeachment trial? […]