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  On July 20-24, 2015, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and the National Forestry Commission of Mexico (CONAFOR), in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the European Forest Institute (EFI) hosted the sixth Next Generation of Forest Agency Leaders seminar. The gathering convened 19 forest leaders from 9 countries (Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, China, […]

  On May 18-22, 2015, the Rights and Resource Initiative (RRI), in collaboration with the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, the U.S. Forest Service, and the European Forest Institute have hold the fifth Rethinking Forest Regulations workshop in Missoula, Montana, United States. Bringing together participants from 7 countries currently undergoing forest or tenure […]

Side Event at the Eleventh Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests featuring MegaFlorestais Leaders Date: 05/14/2015 – 1:15 PM-2:45 PM Location: United Nations Headquarters, New York City Purpose This side event will inform UNFF participants of the current status of forest tenure, governance issues, and new initiatives underway to strengthen forest governance and assist […]

MegaFlorestais celebrates a decade of convening global forest leaders to find innovative solutions to global challenges Rapid changes in the world’s climate and rising pressures on its natural resources have pushed its forests into a constant state of flux. For this reason, many leaders of public forest agencies across the world have come to realize […]

Combating deforestation and encouraging forestry’s contribution to green growth: the role of tenure, trade and government policy The tenth meeting of MegaFlorestais was held in Madre de Dios and Yucay, Peru, on April 13-17, 2015, co-hosted by the National Forest and Wildlife Service of Peru, and in cooperation with the Rights and Resources Initiative, the […]

India’s Down to Earth Journal cover story on Mexico’s forestry experience, with contributions gathered at the Next Generation 2014 seminar Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava traveled to the forested states of Mexico to document this turnaround and brings home lessons on forest governance Mexico has made great strides in democratising its forest governance. More than 70 per […]

“Save the rainforest” is an environmental slogan as old as time — but Tasso Azevedo catches us up on how the fight is actually going these days. Spurred by the jaw-dropping losses of the 1990s, new laws (and transparent data) are helping slow the rate of deforestation in Brazil. Is it enough? Not yet. He […]

Sally Collins participated in the XXIV IUFRO World Congress on “Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research” Plenary 3 Panel: Knowledge Discovery, Synthesis, and Application at the Forest Science/Management Interface How can we effectively integrate the many ways of understanding forests to create the best paradigms to manage them? That was the question that moderator […]

Blog post originally published on Down to Earth. To see original post, please click here. For the past eight years, leaders of public forest agencies from the world’s most forested countries have been taking part in a series of meetings. This informal group, MegaFlorestais, discusses challenges and shares experiences on critical issues affecting forests and […]