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DATE TITLE AUTHOR
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01/01/2013 Deforestation trends in the Congo Basin: reconciling economic growth and forest protection
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20/03/2012 The Forests of the Congo Basin: State of the Forest 2010
The 2010 State of the Forest report relies on indicators decided on collectively by about sixty contributors. ... 		Publications Office of the European Union

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30/05/2011 Congo Basin Program Briefing
IDH’s Congo Basin Program has now officially started its activities. The main objective of this ... 		Congo Basin Program

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30/05/2011 The State of the Forests in the Amazon Basin, Congo Basin and South East Asia
This report was prepared for the Summit of the Three Rainforest Basins
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, ... 		FAO / ITTO

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06/02/2011 What wood you choose? Tracking forest products on sale in the UK back to their forest source
Between August and December 2010, WWF-UK commissioned Earthsight Investigations to work alongside us ... 		WWF

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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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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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16/04/2013 Why action on forests now is essential to all our futures
Saving forests offers a new route to alleviating hunger and malnutrition, promoting development and tackling ... 		Bharrat Jagdeo for The Guardian

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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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14/11/2012 Under threat: Deforestation pressure on Congo Basin forests increasing
Yaounde - Rainforests in the Congo Basin are being cleared at an alarming rate amid global demand for ... 		CIFOR Forests Blog

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14/11/2012 Cutting through: Formalising Cameroon’s huge domestic timber market
Yaounde - Shirtless and muscular, his skin flecked with specks of sawdust, 58 year-old Dieudonné ... 		CIFOR Forests Blog

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05/09/2012 Study: Deforestation reduces rainfall
Leeds, England - Deforestation can reduce rainfall with potentially devastating impacts on people living ... 		UPI.com

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26/07/2012 Ten Central African countries to take part in UN-backed forest monitoring system
Ten Central African countries will take part in a United Nations-backed initiative that will help them ... 		UN News Centre

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17/07/2012 Cameroon to protect forests with satellite monitoring
Yaounde - Cameroon has joined a Congo Basin initiative that uses satellite imagery to monitor changes ... 		Reuters AlertNet

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16/07/2012 Deforestation from mining in the Congo more than ‘a hole in the canopy’
Bogor, Indonesia - Seen from the sky, a mining pit might look like ‘a small hole in the canopy’ ... 		CIFOR Forests Blog

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16/05/2012 Obama’s biggest climate decision of the year may be … palm oil?
by Glenn Hurowitz

The Obama administration is poised to make one of the biggest climate policy decisions ... 		Think Progress, US

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31/03/2012 Congo moves to combat illegal logging in the Congo Basin
Brazzaville, Congo - The Congolese government on Thursday launched a project in Brazzaville to combat ... 		Afrique en Ligne

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20/03/2012 Deforestation rates double in the Congo Basin: Report
Douala, Cameroon - Although the level of deforestation in the world’s second-largest tropical forest ... 		CIFOR Forests Blog

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15/03/2012 Well-managed logging concession areas could boost REDD+ carbon stocks in Congo Basin
Douala, Cameroon - A new CIFOR project in the Congo Basin is hoping to bolster scientific evidence that ... 		CIFOR Forests Blog

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07/03/2012 EU-funded study underlines importance of Congo Basin for global climate and biodiversity
With its 1.7 billion square kilometres, an area equivalent to 5 times the size of Germany, the Congo ... 		Science Codex

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05/03/2012 Cameroon government cracks down on illegal logging
Yaounde, Cameroon – The government of Cameroon has intensified a crackdown on illegal loggers in ... 		Reuters AlertNet

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22/02/2012 Forest witnesses show how Olympics and Southend pier link to Congo
People affected by illegal logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo have told UK politicians how the ... 		WWF

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17/02/2012 Forest witness: how the wood we choose affects lives in the Congo
Some of the people affected directly by illegal logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will ... 		WWF

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15/12/2011 Little headway in Durban on deforestation: experts
Brasilia - The UN's Durban conference on climate change failed to make enough headway in efforts ... 		AFP

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05/12/2011 How wars and poverty have saved DR Congo's forests
It is an uncomfortable fact that decades of conflict and poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo ... 		BBC News

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01/12/2011 Technological breakthrough maps a path to rainforest protection
As the latest climate summit in Durban again tries to resolve the challenges of implementing ‘reduction ... 		Directions Magazine

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20/11/2011 Markets drive conservation in Central Africa
Madrid, Spain – Certification has shown that commercial forestry can co-exist with conservation ... 		WWF

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04/06/2011 Rainforest basin nations agree to tackle deforestation
Brazzaville — The 32 countries sharing the world's three largest rainforest basins agreed ... 		AFP

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02/06/2011 Destruction of world's biggest rainforests down 25 percent: FAO
The rate of destruction of the world's three largest forests fell 25 percent this decade compared ... 		Reuters, featured on Planet Ark

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01/06/2011 Experts meet in Congo in bid to rescue world forests
Representatives from 35 countries will seek ways to protect the world's largest rainforests during ... 		Reuters, featured on Planet Ark

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10/03/2011 Trust expands African rainforest available for sustainable-wood; lack of buyers threatens move
Brazzaville, Congo — The Forest Trust said Thursday 571,000 hectares more of African rainforest ... 		The Associated Press

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18/11/2010 Saving trees in the Congo Basin: is REDD a solution or a quagmire?
The Congo Basin is rich in forests and poor in cash, which makes it hard to resist offers of easy money ... 		Ecosystem Marketplace

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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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28/01/2011 Structuration of the Chinese timber trade: insights from Amazonia and the Congo Basin Louis Putzel, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

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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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Sunday 4th December 2011 Forest Day 5, at COP17 of the UNFCCC
Forest Day, now moving into its fifth year, has become one of the most intensive and influential annual ...

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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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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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