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CONGO BASIN



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11/12/2009 Voices from the Congo Basin: Incorporating the Perspectives of Local Stakeholders for Improved REDD Design
The scarcity of information on local and indigenous perspectives on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation ... 		WRI

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27/11/2009 Global Climate Politics in the Congo Basin: Unprecedented Opportunity or High-risk Gamble?
This report discusses the challenges and opportunities of forest carbon schemes and management in the ... 		Heinrich Boell Foundation (Korinna Horta)

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01/09/2007 Capacity Building in the Congo Basin and Implementation of Independent Monitoring of FLEG (IM-FLEG) in the Republic of Congo
Project description of IFM work being done in the Republic of Congo towards Forest Law Enforcement and ... 		Forests Monitor/ Resource Extraction Monitoring (REM)

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22/11/2005 Failing the Forests: Europe's Illegal Timber Trade
Based on trade data for six key timber-producing regions – the Amazon Basin, the Baltic States, ... 		WWF

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01/05/2004 Business role in the Congo
Politicians and donor agencies are focusing on the Congo Basin. Difficult questions are being raised ... 		Timber Trades Journal (Rupert Oliver)

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NEWS

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17/07/2010 Africa looks to vast forests for carbon credit
Banco, Ivory Coast - They inhabit a polluted part of Ivory Coast’s main city with few jobs and ... 		Arab News

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29/03/2010 Population density corresponds with forest loss in the Congo Basin
Africa's greatest rainforest ecosystem, the Congo Basin, has undergone significant deforestation ... 		Mongabay.com

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11/03/2010 Deforestation conference to turn plans to action
Paris — French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations ... 		The Associated Press

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29/01/2010 Eyes in space map changing Congo rainforests
British company DMCii is using satellites to acquire new images of the Congo rainforests from space, ... 		Technology Newsroom

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15/01/2010 REDD, responsible logging could help preserve Congo forests, reduce poverty, says report
Payments for ecosystem services and sustainable forest management may be key components in maintaining ... 		Mongabay.com

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14/01/2010 Congo Basin Forest Partnership "State of the Forest" report launch
The U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development, in coordination with ... 		US Department of State

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18/12/2009 Can climate action resuscitate tropical forests?
... 		WRI

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17/12/2009 Congo villagers look to Copenhagen to save forest
As world leaders haggle over a plan to fight global warming, tribes in Congo's rainforest have armed ... 		World Bulletin

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29/10/2009 Africa: African governments and outside powers must be accountable
On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action still falls ... 		allAfrica.com

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30/09/2009 Congo Basin Heads of State and Conservation groups celebrate 10 years of success in saving world's second largest rainforest
Ongoing threats include bushmeat hunting, illegal logging and climate change.

Washington, D.C. - Leaders ... 		PR Web

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12/08/2009 Satellite images reveal Congo deforestation
The first images from Britain's satellite spacecraft UK-DMC2 have been returned. ... 		Cool Earth

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23/07/2009 The need to check deforestation in West Africa
Achieving long-term development in West Africa requires much more than just exploiting the region's ... 		Business Day, Nigeria

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25/05/2009 Slow forest tenure reform threatens Africa's action against climate change
A new report released today at a major global forestry conference in Cameroon has found that deforestation ... 		Africa Science News Service (Kenya)

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20/05/2009 Responsible forest management in Congo Basin has bright future following latest certification milestone
Yaounde, Cameroon - The Congo Basin is now home to over four million hectares (ha) of sustainably managed ... 		WWF

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09/04/2009 Shrinking forests: the many costs
In early December 2004, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered the military and police ... 		Prism Webcast News

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19/01/2009 Congo set to halt most logging
Kinshasa - Logging must stop on nearly 13 million hectares of forest in Democratic Republic of Congo ... 		Reuters

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10/10/2008 Cameroon: illegal loggers flee gov't crackdown forces
Cameroon - Illegal loggers in the forests of Ndoumbie, Ndongo, Ndemba and Guekong in the Lom et Djerem ... 		AllAfrica.com

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08/10/2008 DR Congo to cancel two-thirds of logging contracts due to corruption
Democratic Republic of Congo will cancel more than two-thirds of its logging contracts due to under a ... 		Mongabay.com (USA)

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31/07/2008 Congo Basin sees progress on REDD preparations
As discussed at the UNFCCC workshop on methodologies to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation ... 		ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)

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31/07/2008 Congo Basin passes 1 million ha milestone in swing to sustainable forestry
Yaound, Cameroon - WWF today announced that more than one million hectares of Congo Basin forests have ... 		WWF International (Switzerland)

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02/07/2008 Congo reforestation fund urged to ensure local leaders get cash
Kinshasa, DRC - Former Canadian prime minister Paul Martin must worry about the flow of "every single ... 		Toronto Star (Canada)

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18/06/2008 Ex-PM takes Walden Pond to the Congo
Paul Martin has a new constituency. This one is twice the size of France and home to 50 million people ... 		Globe and Mail (Canada)

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17/06/2008 Spy satellite will monitor illegal logging across six African countries
A spy satellite is to be trained on the vast rainforests of central Africa as part of a British project ... 		Independent (UK)

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27/05/2008 Congo basin forest is biggest for approved logging
A tract of tropical forest in the Congo Basin mapped with the help of local pygmies has become the largest ... 		Reuters (USA)

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08/06/2007 Loggers threaten a third of rainforests in Congo Basin
The rainforests of central Africa are being systematically plundered for their hardwood timber trees, ... 		The Independent (UK)

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04/05/2007 Ecological Internet's "End Ancient Forest Logging" campaign targets World Bank, WWF and Greenpeace for their role in promoting ancient primary rainforest logging
(Press Release) Do WWF and Greenpeace members realize they are supporting industrial logging of the world's ... 		rainforestportal.org (USA)

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11/03/2007 Congo pledges to save forests
DRC - At an International Conference on Sustainable Management of Forests held in Brussels on February ... 		Africa News (Netherlands)

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09/03/2007 Congo joins regional effort to save forests
The newly-elected government of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) has presented wide-ranging efforts and plans to ... 		afrol News (Norway)

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05/03/2007 Towards a better knowledge of forest ecosystems
Rome, Italy - Stressing that improved forest policies and sustainable forest management necessarily entail ... 		UN FAO (Italy)

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19/10/2006 Timber companies join origins debate
Green pressure group WWF-Australia is using a new weapon to stop illegal logging — it has signed ... 		The Age (Australia)

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14/07/2006 Safeguarding Cameroon's Rainforest
(Radio Transcript) During the last 40 years the rainforest of Africa's Congo Basin has been devastated ... 		Living on Earth (USA)

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23/06/2006 Conservation efforts in Congo Basin appear effective
A new assessment of Africa's massive Congo Basin rain forest finds that it is less degraded than ... 		Voice of America (USA)

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11/02/2005 World leaders must take action on Congo agreement
African heads of state and French President Jacques Chirac have jointly pledged to protect the Congo ... 		Environmental Data Interactive (UK)

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05/02/2005 Rainforest treaty for Central Africa is fundamentally flawed, say environmental and human rights groups
A new international treaty aimed at protecting the rainforests of the Congo Basin will actually promote ... 		Rainforest Foundation UK

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24/06/2004 Central African officials to meet in Congo on regional environment strategy
Central African forestry officials are to hold a long-delayed meeting Friday to hammer out a regional ... 		Terra Daily

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PRESENTATIONS

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DATE TITLE AUTHOR
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23/06/2009 The domestic timber sector in the Congo Basin Paolo Cerutti, CIFOR

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18/06/2008 US efforts in Congo Basin Forest Partnership U.S. Embassy Beijing (C Sherry Hong)

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10/09/2007 Forest governance, Carbon and Avoided Deforestation: Who Benefits? A view from the Congo Basin Samuel Nnah Ndobe, Centre for Environment and Development, Cameroon; Cath Long, Rainforest Foundation

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09/07/2007 SM Certification in the Congo Basin region Interafrican Forest Industries Association (Herv Bourguignon)

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21/07/2006 FSC controlled wood standards in the Congo Basin: Pilot study FSC UK (Richard Robertson)

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EVENTS

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Tuesday 30th August 2005 Tropical Forest Governance and Trade - Cameroonian and UK Initiatives
The meeting aimed to share information about current efforts to combat illegal logging by UK/EU and Congo ...

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LINKS

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TITLE DESCRIPTION REPORT
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Congo Basin Forest Partnership The Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) is an association of almost 50 governmental and nongovernmental organisations that works to promote sustainable management of Congo Basin forest ecosystems and wildlife, and improve the lives of people living in the region. It was originally agreed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in September 2002. Broken link

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