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This follows a video which has gone viral of police officers confronting a businesswoman, purportedly asking for an operating licence.

This follows a video which has gone viral of police officers confronting a businesswoman, purportedly asking for an operating licence.

The history of the sector and analysis of data cast doubt on whether Marape’s promise to stop log exports can be taken seriously, says Colin Filer.

A previous blog examined a number of forest carbon (or REDD) projects in Papua New Guinea whose proponents have tried to register their interests under the Verified Carbon Standard so that they can sell carbon credits to companies that want to offset their own carbon emissions through this global...

Final report recommends review of forestry body Coillte over ‘conflict’ between business aims and biodiversity

Management agreements and carbon credits are part of a complex struggle for control over PNG forests, explain Colin Filer, Michael Wood and Andrea Babon.

Building culverts to get wildlife safely across the East Coast Rail Link, which passes through the environmentally-sensitive Central Forest Spine.

Addressing the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture on Forest Policy and Strategy recently, IFA Deputy President Brian Rushe said the Government must address the longstanding issues within the sector while giving greater assurances to farmers in order to achieve the national afforestation targets.

LESS than five years after the end of the Second World War and people in Craven were getting twitchy about trees - more specifically, about the lack…

Tree poaching has made Taiwan suffer disproportionate forest loss. Approaches to solving this crisis are varied, and Taiwan is having difficulty finding the right solution.