GUYANA

Approximately three quarters of Guyana is forested, 60% of which is primary forest supporting a rich biodiversity. Historically, Guyana's forests were exploited very little, due to a lack of resources, but the country's need for economic development led the government to seek foreign investment, which resulted in the Malaysian logging company Barama being granted a 50-year 1.7 million ha concession in 1991. This was encouraged by both the World Bank and IMF.

Barama benefited from a 10-year tax holiday, paid almost no royalties and was granted the right to log lands that had been inhabited by indigenous communities. Other logging firms followed because of the favourable conditions. At the same time, illegal chainsaw logging saw a rapid expansion and the government effectively lost control over the forestry sector. In addition, mining has had a significant impact on the environment, causing widespread deforestation in some areas and polluted waterways.

As a result of this, a three-year moratorium on new logging concessions was issued in 1995, and the government, supported by NGOs, introduced a number of measures to try and regain control over the industry, such as increasing funding for the Forestry Commission to monitor logging activities. The current forestry law provides for timber companies to be compensated for leaving an area of forest untouched by logging.

The rate of harvesting in Guyana is now very low, the deforestation rate is believed to be very low, and logging companies claim to be operating sustainable forest management. However, there are continuing claims of underhand dealings and financial irregularities by mainly Asian logging companies and the forestry authorities.

The government is attempting to address the problem of illegal chainsaw logging in a project funded by the EU. This includes establishing dialogue at the local, regional and international levels and capacity building for sustainable forest management at the community level. It is hoped the project will contribute to poverty reduction and improving livelihoods as well as reducing illegal logging.

In 2006, and again in the run-up to the climate change talks in Bali in December 2008, the president expressed his willingness to place all Guyana's rainforest under international supervision to ensure it is being managed sustainably, if the economic incentives were appropriate. On a further positive note, the Timber Trade Action Plan (TTAP) has launched activities to combat the trade in illegal timber in South America, starting with Brazil, and will be rolling its work out to Guyana shortly.

Guyana is also a member of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (ACTO) which has developed criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management and a platform for dialogue between national forestry authorities, and is examining the potential for digital surveying of the regions vegetation cover. ACTO believes that the REDD mechanism provides an opportunity for Amazon countries to design policies to rectify environmental degradation

DOCUMENTS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
01/12/2012	Atlas of Pressures and Threats to Indigenous Lands in the Brazilian Amazon This report presents a complementary and integrated view of different forms of intervention in the Amazon ...	Amazonian Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information (RAISG)
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25/06/2012	Supporting Sustainable Chainsaw Milling Through Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue in Guyana The Chainsaw ...	Tropenbos International (Bonita Harris, Rohini Kerrett, Nico Rozemeijer and Marieke Wit)
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28/04/2011	Forest Carbon News April 2011 The Overview: Guyana continues to find itself at the center of several REDD+ news stories. The small ...	Ecosystem Marketplace
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07/04/2011	Bad Influence: How McKinsey Inspired Plans Lead to Rainforest Destruction McKinsey & Company is a giant, well-connected global consultancy firm which has been working to position ...	Greenpeace
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01/12/2010	Chainsaw Milling: Supplier to Local Markets Chainsaw milling, the on-site conversion of logs into lumber using chainsaws, is supplying a large proportion ...	ETFRN (European Tropical Forest Research Network)
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23/08/2010	Recommendation of 22 February 2010 to the Ministry of Finance, Norway This document is the recommendation of Norway's Council of Ethics to the Ministry of Finance to ...	Council on Ethics, Norway
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01/04/2010	Forest Law Enforcement and Governance and Forest Practices in Guyana Guyana and Norway have agreed to work toward the establishment of a REDD mechanism. Within this context, ...	CIFOR & IWOKRAMA
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01/03/2008	Timber Trade Action Plan News - Issue 3 This issue relates events and developments worldwide that are inputting into the illegal logging debate, ...	Timber Trade Action Plan (Switzerland)
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14/02/2008	Illegal logging by Asian-owned enterprises in Guyana, South America A 2007 policy issued by the State Forestry Administration in Beijing to Chinese companies engaged in ...	Janette Bulkan and John Palmer
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01/01/2008	Breaking the rings of forest corruption: steps towards better forest governance Corruption appears to be the major factor which prevents proper control of long-term forest harvesting ...	Forests Trees and Livelihoods (Janette Bulkan and John Palmer)
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01/12/2007	Timber Tags: The currency of illegal logging and forest corruption in Guiana Shield countries This briefing note produced originally for the Chatham House FLEGT Update Meeting in July 2006 reports ...	Janette Bulkan and John Palmer
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01/09/2007	New colonial masters: Malaysian loggers in South America How under-valuation of forest resources exposes Guyana to unscrupulous exploitation. ...	Commonwealth Forestry Association Newsletter
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09/06/2007	Lazy days at international banks: how Credit Suisse and HSBC support illegal logging and unsustainable timber harvesting by Samling/Barama in Guyana, and possible reforms Credit Suisse and HSBC are two of the three international banks which underwrote the Initial Public Offering ...	Janette Bulkan and John Palmer (emails to janette.bulkan@yale.edu)
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
26/04/2013	Standing Up: Guyana and Norway Partner to Keep Trees Standing Sustainability is all the rage these days. The phrase “Sustainable Development” can be heard ...	Forbes
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07/03/2013	Persistent illegalities allowed by GFC and GRA in timber exports – cocaine in digger mats Dear Editor, The Timber Regulation of the European Union (EUTR) came into force on Sunday 03 March 2013. ...	Kaieteur News
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31/12/2012	The year in rainforests 2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of ...	Mongabay.com
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22/12/2012	Guyana to receive $45M from Norway for preventing deforestation Georgetown, Guyana – The South American country of Guyana says it will receive an additional $45 ...	Fox News
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06/12/2012	Deforestation rate falls across Amazon rainforest countries The average annual rate of deforestation across Amazon rainforest countries dropped sharply in the second ...	Mongabay.com
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25/09/2012	Liberia: Notorious Malaysian company surfaces in Liberia A comprehensive investigation by this paper has unearthed that a notorious Malaysian logging company ...	The Inquirer, Liberia (posted on allAfrica.com)
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28/06/2012	Guyana records slight decline in deforestation - maintains level for agreed Norway payout Guyana’s deforestation rate decreased slightly last year compared to the previous year, according ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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08/06/2012	Report: 100 Amazon bird species are at greater risk of extinction due to deforestation Deforestation in the Amazon has put nearly 100 bird species at greater risk of extinction, the International ...	Scientific American blog
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14/05/2012	Representatives of the Amazon countries participate in the Monitoring Project Steering Committee The first meeting of Steering Committee of Project “Monitoring Deforestation, Land Use and Land ...	ACTO (Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation)
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11/05/2012	Through a glass, darkly – what’s wrong with an Indian coffee retailer exporting logs of prime furniture and flooring timber from Guyana instead of local processing for added value? Part 6 By Janette Bulkan Costs, values and profits In the first five articles in this series ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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10/05/2012	Through a glass, darkly – what’s wrong with an Indian coffee retailer exporting logs of prime furniture and flooring timber from Guyana instead of local processing for added value? Part 5 By Janette Bulkan In this fifth article in this series, I will discuss the commitments made ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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09/05/2012	Through a glass, darkly – what’s wrong with an Indian coffee retailer exporting logs of prime furniture and flooring timber from Guyana instead of local processing for added value? Part 4 By Janette Bulkan In this fourth article in this series, I will discuss the due diligence ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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08/05/2012	Through a glass, darkly – what’s wrong with an Indian coffee retailer exporting logs of prime furniture and flooring timber from Guyana instead of local processing for added value? Part 3 By Janette Bulkan The second article in this series, published by Stabroek News’ In ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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24/04/2012	Through a glass, darkly – what’s wrong with an Indian coffee retailer exporting logs of prime furniture and flooring timber from Guyana instead of local processing for added value? Part 2 By Janette Bulkan Last week’s article provided the background on the two forest concessions ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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16/04/2012	Through a glass, darkly – what’s wrong with an Indian coffee retailer exporting logs of prime furniture and flooring timber from Guyana instead of local processing for added value? By Janette Bulkan St. Paul wrote in his first letter to the Corinthians ‘For now we see through ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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10/04/2012	Forester slams sustainable forest management claims Claims of sustainable management of Guyana’s forests made by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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09/03/2012	Guyana to enter forestry p'ship with the EU The Guyana government has agreed to sign on to the EU Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade programme ...	Demerara Waves, Guyana
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18/02/2012	Ghana delegation visits Guyana to learn about Sustainable Forestry Inititative Seeking to learn more about Guyana’s Chainsaw Milling Project, a sustainable forestry initiative, ...	Caribbean Journal
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16/02/2012	ACTO countries explore possible cooperation to combat illegal timber harvesting The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) held a workshop on the control of illegal harvesting ...	IISD Biodiversity Update
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06/02/2012	The rule of law – what Guyana loses through export of timber logs to Asia By Janette Bulkan In the second article in this series ‘The ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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30/01/2012	The rule of law – inefficiency and corruption in the export of timber logs to Asia By Janette Bulkan In the article ‘The ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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17/01/2012	‘The rule of law? – not in the forest sector of Guyana’ By Janette Bulkan In November 2009, the Government of Guyana signed a Memorandum of Understanding ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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17/01/2012	Hats off to Guyana's outgoing President Jagdeo, a forest champion Russell Mittermeier, President, Conservation International. The Kansas-sized country of Guyana, formerly ...	The Huffington Post
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19/12/2011	Guyana forest carbon plan struggle to get off paper After decades of depending on bauxite, timber and gold for revenue, Guyana proposed five years ago that ...	Reuters
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13/12/2011	Western Amazon becomes Ground Zero for logging The rainforest charity Cool Earth is aiming to triple the amount of rainforest they are protecting in ...	Cool Earth
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27/11/2011	8 Amazon countries pledge more coordination in rainforest conservation Eight Amazon countries pledged greater cooperation in efforts to protect the world's largest rainforest ...	Mongabay.com
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25/11/2011	What's happened to Guyana's rainforest deal with Norway? Back in 2009 it was heralded as a potential model for REDD+ and reducing rates of deforestation but Norway's ...	The Ecologist, UK
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22/11/2011	Amazon countries vow to enhance conservation efforts Manaus, Brazil — Eight South American countries pledged Tuesday to boost cooperation to protect ...	AFP
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10/11/2011	McKinsey trampled on the rainforests – it can't be trusted The firm consulting on the NHS shake-up has given advice on forest protection that benefits only big ...	The Guardian, UK
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01/09/2011	Guyana getting closer to decision on EU forestry trade accord A decision on whether Guyana will join a European Union (EU) trade accord to ensure that only legally ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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19/08/2011	Guyana imposes near ban on log, timber exports; existing contracts to be considered Faced with a shortage of wood for the local constructionboom, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) is ...	Demerara Waves, Guyana
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10/08/2011	Customs officer sacked, three suspended over cocaine in container The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has dismissed a customs officer and suspended three others, following ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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06/07/2011	Guyana partners with Suriname, French Guiana to combat illegal forest activities Several enforcement bodies were trained at a joint workshop the administration hosted in collaboration ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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26/06/2011	Increased environmental damage caused by mining boom The gold rush over the past years has not been a glittering one for the environment, with many new miners ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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21/06/2011	Logs in shipment where cocaine found were in-transit in Jamaica – Singh The logs in a container where 122 kgs of cocaine were found last March in Jamaica were in-transit, Guyana ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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17/06/2011	European Forestry Institute team here A team from the European Forestry Institute (EFI) is in Guyana conducting a diagnostic assessment of ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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06/06/2011	Guyana, Congo ink five-year agreement to enhance sustainable management of forest As Government continues its fight to make countries become better aware of its policies on forest conservation ...	Guyana Chronicle online
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28/04/2011	Oslo urges more forest aid despite corruption risk Oslo - Norway urged rich nations on Thursday to take risks and pay to slow deforestation in poor countries, ...	Reuters Africa
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07/04/2011	McKinsey work lets Congo, Guyana get aid, cut trees, Greenpeace says McKinsey & Co. is helping rainforest nations such as Indonesia and Guyana safeguard their logging ...	Bloomberg
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26/03/2011	Cocaine-in-lumber probe reaching dead-end? Investigations into how a large quantity of China-bound cocaine found its way in a consignment of timber ...	Demerara Waves
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07/03/2011	Guyana sees a three-fold increase in deforestation despite landmark deal to protect its forests Guyana has seen deforestation rates soar over the last year, despite the signing of an agreement with ...	Global Witness
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25/11/2010	Forest producers move to meet EU due diligence The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Forest Products Association of Guyana (FPA) on November ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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20/10/2010	Guyana mulls negotiating the VPA with EU A workshop was held at the Guyana International Centre to address the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report
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13/10/2010	Fears of corruption as REDD forest-protection schemes begin Misunderstandings and scepticism around schemes that pay countries to protect their forests are rife, ...	The Ecologist, UK
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26/08/2010	Barama rejects Norway gov’t statement Barama Company Limited (BCL) yesterday said that the characterization of the company by the Norwegian ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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25/08/2010	No evidence of forest damage by Barama - Persaud Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud yesterday rejected a Norwegian government report that Barama Company ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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23/08/2010	Norwegian government declares Malaysian timber giant an unethical company Oslo, Norway - One of the world's largest institutional investors, the Norwegian Government Pension ...	Bruno Manser Fund, Switzerland
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23/08/2010	Three companies excluded from the Government Pension Fund Global The Ministry of Finance has excluded two Israeli companies and one Malaysian company from the portfolio ...	Ministry of Finance, Norway
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02/08/2010	Guyana’s response to US Lacey Act The revised US Lacey Act (1 April 2010) includes an expanded product coverage list covering many of the ...	ITTO Market Report
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14/07/2010	Forest exports under closer watch for illegal logging US team expounds on amended Lacey Act: "This is here to stay and it’s just going to get worse. ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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14/07/2010	US introduces stringent laws on wood imports The US has introduced new regulations governing the importation of wood and its products into that country ...	Kaieteur News Online, Guyana
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30/06/2010	Guyana indigenous people charge land abuses Georgetown - Guyana's indigenous people are accusing the government of snatching their traditional ...	Reuters
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12/04/2010	Illegality in forestry sector significant -study finds There is a “significant” level of illegality in Guyana’s forestry sector though it ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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10/03/2010	Indigenous leaders call for hold on LCDS, REDD+ projects Indigenous leaders are calling on government [of Guyana] and international agencies to shelve policies ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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08/12/2009	Guyana offers a model to save rain forest In Guyana, where pristine rain forest still covers 75 percent of the land, and barely 750,000 people ...	The New York Times
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20/11/2009	Google spyware will help vigilantes save rainforests Environmentalists across the world are to be enlisted as armchair detectives to monitor satellite images ...	Times Online, UK
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11/11/2009	Stringent conditions to be met before Norway $$ released Transparency and accountability are key issues in the forest preservation deal between Guyana and Norway ...	Stabroek News, Guyana
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21/10/2009	Leaps forward in satellite forest monitoring Efforts to tackle deforestation and develop a robust REDD mechanism have received a double boost this ...	Carbon Positive
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08/10/2009	Redd comes with risks but there is no other choice than to try By rewarding transparency and accuracy, we can make the UN's forest protection scheme work. ...	Guardian, UK
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28/08/2009	Liberia: Credibility of Liberia's forestry reform programme at point of collapse, warns Global Witness The credibility of Liberia’s forestry reform programme, one of the most comprehensive ever undertaken ...	allAfrica.com
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21/08/2009	Liberia: timber pirates in country? Many, who thought Charles Taylor's bush war to topple Samuel Doe's discredited government would ...	allAfrica.com
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11/08/2009	Liberia: Global Witness restates warnings over logging of forests Campaign group Global Witness today restated its concerns that two firms linked to Malaysian timber giant ...	allAfrica.com
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16/07/2009	Liberia: Govt poised to hand forests to timber pirates Two firms linked to Malaysian timber giant Samling, a company notorious for destroying tropical forests ...	allAfrica.com
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02/07/2009	REDD readiness plans for Panama, Guyana approved but rejected for Indonesia The World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) has approved REDD readiness plans (R-Plans) ...	Mongabay.com
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01/07/2009	Amerindian leaders say must not be pressured on low carbon Indigenous leaders say that they support "in principle" proposals that aim to protect standing ...	Stabroek News
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30/06/2009	Guyana sets pace for combatting illegal logging Guyana is moving towards completion of a project on 'Improving the detection and prevention of illegal ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report
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05/03/2009	Indonesia applies for World Bank forest CO2 scheme Indonesia has applied to join a World Bank program that supports developing nations' efforts to ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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19/02/2009	Amazon rainforest in big trouble, says UN Economic development could doom the Amazon warns a comprehensive new report from the United Nations Environment ...	Mongabay.com
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12/02/2009	Payments for eco services could save the Amazon Paying for the ecological services provided by the Amazon rainforest could be the key to saving it, reports ...	Mongabay.com
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11/01/2009	WWF has disconnected from Barama - does not believe company can regain forest stewardship certificate The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is no longer working with Barama Company Limited (BCL) on re-gaining certification ...	Stabroek News
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15/12/2008	GFC and USAID host forum on US Lacey Act The Guyana Forestry Commission and USAID Guyana hosted a forum on the US Lacey Act on 11 December 2008. ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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15/11/2008	Chainsaw milling project addresses community forest work In May 2008, Guyana commenced work on a project that focuses on chainsaw milling in Guyana and Ghana ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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10/09/2008	Samling shares fall to dramatic all-time low Hong Kong Stock Exchange requests Samling to give an explanation ' Malaysian timber group state ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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08/09/2008	Why the West should put money in the trees In 2006, Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo outlined an offer to place almost the entirety of Guyana's ...	BBC (UK)
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02/09/2008	Audit launched into Barama investment programme The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) yesterday launched an audit into the investment programme of Barama ...	Kaieteur News (Guyana)
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18/08/2008	An interview with Dr. Andrew Mitchell of the Global Canopy Program: Markets could save rainforests Markets may soon value rainforests as living entities rather than for just the commodities produced when ...	Mongabay.com
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31/07/2008	Guyana prepares to engage in REDD schemes Guyana has expressed its commitment to take action on climate change through conservation and sustainable ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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24/07/2008	14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests Fourteen countries have been selected by the World Bank to receive funds for conserving their tropical ...	Mongabay.com
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09/06/2008	Guiana Shield forests help preserve biodiversity and climate The Guiana Shield region of South America could play a significant role in efforts to fight global warming ...	Mongabay.com
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08/05/2008	Foresters see major losses from illegal GFC demands Guyana - The Forest Products Association (FPA) yesterday charged that illegal action being pursued by ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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05/05/2008	Unprocessed logs continue to be exported Dear Editor, In two articles in KN the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has been protesting about being ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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19/02/2008	The forestry commission should focus on the huge losses suffered from log exports Guyana - Letter to the Editor - It is just a year since 350 stakeholders at the public consultation on ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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08/02/2008	The Forestry Commission seems to be making a long overdue attempt to restore its operational mandate Guyana - Letter to the editor - After five years of minimal effective activity the GFC appears to be ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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20/01/2008	Loggers to pay $275M fines for forestry breaches Several logging companies are being collectively fined $275 million for breaches in the Guyana Forestry ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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13/01/2008	Barama yet to receive re-certification Guyana - One year on, Barama Com-pany Limited (BCL) is yet to receive its re-certification from the Forest ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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08/01/2008	The Bali road map some practical implications for Guyana Letter - In your news article, 'Market-based reward mechanism for standing forests Guyana will ...	The Guyana Chronicle (Guyana)
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31/12/2007	GFC integrating bar-coding with its monitoring methods The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) says it is implementing the Remote Sensing and Bar-Coding system ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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25/10/2007	GFC should take major offenders to court to get to the bottom of the issues Letter to the editor of Kaieteur News, Guyana. ...	Kaieteur News (Guyana)
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25/10/2007	M'sian logging firm refuses to pay Guyana fine A Malaysian timber company has refused to pay a US$480,000 (RM1.6 million) fine to the government of ...	Malaysiakini (Malaysia)
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23/10/2007	Barama fined $106M for breaches in three concessions Guyana - Barama Company Limited has been slapped with $106M in fines for breaches in three concessions, ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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23/10/2007	Forestry probe completed: Government slaps $96M penalty on Barama Less than a month after investigations were launched into an apparent collusion between Barama Company ...	Kaieteur News (Guyana)
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23/10/2007	Barama fined $96.4M - Forestry staffers dismissed, sanctions imposed on three local firms The country's largest exporter of logs, Barama Company Limited, has been fined G$96.4M and ordered ...	Guyana Chronicle (Guyana)
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18/10/2007	Samling plays leading role in Guyana's illegal logging scandal Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana, publicly condemned Malaysian logging giant Samling for illegal logging ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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09/10/2007	President cites Barama, others over breaches of forestry procedures Guyana - President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday disclosed that recent alleged breaches of forestry procedures ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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09/10/2007	Barama, others guilty in timber scam Guyana - The country's largest exporter of logs, Barama, other forest concession owners, and officials ...	Guyana Chronicle (Guyana)
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26/09/2007	False declarations by logging companies under scrutiny Guyana - Several forestry companies operating locally are currently under scrutiny for under declaration ...	Guyana Chronicle (Guyana)
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26/09/2007	Guyana: Major forestry breaches probe underway The Guyana Forestry Com-mission (GFC) is in the process of conducting an investigation into several logging ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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26/09/2007	GFC investigation of itself unacceptable Guyana - The announcement today by the Ministry of Agriculture of an internal investigation by the Guyana ...	Guyana Human Rights Association (Guyana)
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21/09/2007	Widespread wrongdoing in Guyana timber industry - source - dishonest forestry employees to be disciplined within days Forestry officials are expected to take action, within days, against a number of dishonest staffers even ...	Kaieteur News
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17/09/2007	Guyana: The forestry commission and the geology and mines commission should sign up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Letter from the Stabroek News in Guyana. ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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15/09/2007	Given the waivers granted to Asian timber companies in 2006, what investments did they make and what taxes did they pay? Letter to editor of the Stabroek News. ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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30/05/2007	Barama forced to pull out of Akawini - villagers demand compensation, or will take legal action Guyana - Barama Company Limited yesterday announced that it would begin to demobilise its equipment and ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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24/05/2007	Amerindian groups call on Barama to cease Akawini logging Guyana - The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) and the Guyanese Organisation of Indigenous Peoples ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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12/05/2007	Barama taking action against "unwarranted attacks" Guyana - Barama Company Limited (BCL) has disclosed that a vicious campaign unleashing unwarranted attacks ...	Guyana Chronicle (Guyana)
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07/05/2007	Jaling forestry deal suspended following breaches, non-compliance Guyana - The government yesterday announced that the Timber Sales Agreement (TSA) awarded to Jaling Forest ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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07/05/2007	Guyana stops Chinese logging Guyana government says it has suspended a 25-year timber sales agreement it signed with the China-based ...	Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (Barbados)
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05/05/2007	WWF restates call to Barama for major commitment to responsible forestry Guyana - Following a visit to its north west concession and a mixed assessment of what it saw, the World ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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03/05/2007	Credit Suisse asked to pay back profits of Samling listing Malaysian Samling group accused of illegal logging in Guyana. ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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18/03/2007	Barama corrects forest management deficiencies: expects reversal of suspension Guyana - Barama Company Limited (BCL) is confident of being back in good stead with the Forest Stewardship ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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14/03/2007	The issue of an exploratory permit to Roger Khan's company Aurelius was approved by the Board of Directors of the Forestry Commission Guyana - Letter to the editor of Stabroek News regarding application of existing forestry legislation ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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15/02/2007	Biofuels, logging may spur deforestation in Guyana Growing timber exports and rising interest in biofuels are raising concerns that deforestation could ...	Mongabay.com (USA)
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30/01/2007	Opinion: Stabroek News Guyana ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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28/01/2007	The disposition of Guyana's forest assets: 'What you see is not what you get' This is the first of a series on forestry policies and current practices in Guyana. ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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27/01/2007	The Forestry Commission has had an effective log tracking system for seven years Guyana - Proponents of Guyana Forestry Commission's log tracking system hit back. ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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22/01/2007	Forest Stewardship Council suspends Samling certification (Press Release) The Malaysian Samling Group's most important certificate for forest management has ...	Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland)
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17/01/2007	Illegal logging in Guyana is worse than admitted by the Guyana Forestry Commission Letter to the editor of the Stabroek News, Guyana. ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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25/12/2006	The GFC and the Guyana Revenue Authority need to tackle the prima facie case of falsification of export records for logs Guyana - Opinion - "The GFC and the Guyana Revenue Authority need to tackle this prima facie case ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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13/11/2006	Country getting a pittance from Asian forestry companies Guyana - Asian transnational companies are taking advantage of loopholes in the current forestry laws ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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16/09/2006	Verification system for timber products being crafted Guyana - New Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud yesterday launched the process for a legal verification ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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20/07/2006	Not a good deal for an Amerindian village or the country Guyana - Editorial arguing that local Guyanese are losing out to unfavourable contracts and a lack of ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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15/05/2006	Guyana audits its timber tracking system The Guyana Forestry Commission has engaged UK's PROFOREST to conduct a comprehensive audit of the ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report
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01/05/2006	Forest restoration important in Guyana Guyana: Why Forest Landscape Restoration matters to a country with only 1% rate of deforestation. ...	Mongabay (USA)
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PRESENTATIONS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
23/06/2009	TFT update - progress and challenges	Annie Adams, Tropical Forest Trust (TFT)
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17/01/2008	Forest Law Application Initiative - ALFA	Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (Carlos Aragon)
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EVENTS

DATE	TITLE
Wednesday 20th June 2012	ACTO Member Countries Vision of Amazon Forests. Monitoring Deforestation This official Rio+20 side event is organised by ACTO (Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation). ACTO ...
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Thursday 3rd May 2007	Media conference: Credit Suisse requested to pay 10 million US dollars compensation for Samling IPO Bruno Manser Fonds and the Society for Threatened Peoples are calling upon Credit Suisse, in anticipation ...
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LINKS

TITLE	DESCRIPTION	REPORT
Forest People's Programme	Forest Peoples Programme supports forest peoples to secure and sustainably manage their forests, lands and livelihoods. Their strategies to achieve this include: * promoting the rights and interests of forest peoples at local, national and international levels * creating space for forest peoples to have an effective voice in decision-making processes * challenging top-down policies and projects that deprive local peoples of resources * coordinating support among environmental organisations for forest peoples' visions * supporting community-led sustainable forest management * publicising forest peoples' plight through research, analysis and documentation. Click here for the Forest Peoples Programme webpage with ongoing dialogue with HSBC over funded activities by companies in Sarawak and Guyana.	Broken link
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Guyana Forestry Blog	Postings include information about Barama and other Asian-owned loggers in Guyana, national forest-related enterprises, the Guyana Forestry Commission and news on debt relief, corruption, inward investment, and export control.	Broken link
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RainFor - the Amazon Forest Inventory Network	The Amazon Forest Inventory Network is an international network that has been established to understand the biomass and dynamics of Amazonian forests. Since 2000 we have established a systematic framework for long-term monitoring of this region, which holds more biodiversity, water, and vegetation carbon, than any other region of the planet. RAINFOR has worked step-by-step, including partners across the nations of Amazon, taking account of the potentially strong modulating role of environmental variables like soil nutrition, and the need to help develop a new generation of Amazon ecologists. RAINFOR is curently supported by the Andes and Amazon Initiative of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.	Broken link
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