Social justice, environment and international development organisations have echoed an Indonesian call on the Australia Government to fulfil its 2007 election promise to ban imports of illegal timber. Read More

Norway has announced $1bn in aid to protect forests in Indonesia and hopes to forge a partnership to fight climate change. Read More

ECO2 Forests Inc. (US Stock Symbol: ECOF) Founder Martin Tindall was today encouraged by news from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) that the global deforestation has slowed, though he stressed much work is still to be done. Read More

World deforestation, mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, has decreased over the past ten years but continues at an alarmingly high rate in many countries, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO)announced today. Read More

The first steps to kick start a global REDD scheme to halt deforestation and build on progress in Copenhagen have been taken at a meeting in Paris. Read More

Brazil and the United States have signed an agreement to work together to reduce deforestation as part of an effort to slow climate change. Read More

THE Australian federal government is considering making it a criminal offence to import timber that has been illegally harvested overseas. Read More

With Congress and the White House considering spending scarce dollars to jumpstart employment, they’ll need to get the biggest jobs bang for the buck to give Americans confidence that they’re spending our money wisely. Read More

ECO2 Forests announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire controlling interest in certain projects of Forest Guard Inc. a privately held company specializing in for profit Avoided Deforestation projects. Read More

The Western Regional Office of the Forestry Commission has launched an operation to stop the destruction of forest reserves through illegal farming and timber felling. The exercise code-named "Operation Halt" would involve the surveillance to arrest and prosecute encroachers of Afau Hills, Anhwiaso North, Suraw, Sumtwitwi and Tano-Suraw Extension Forest reserves. Mr. Kwakye Ameyaw, Regional Forestry Manager, who said these at the launch of the operation at Bibiani,... Read More