Liberia:  Over 60 Percent of Liberia's Rain Forest Offered to Logging Companies

Heritage, 4 September 2012

"They stole my name." That is one of the few explanations Paramount Chief Kaifa Manjo can offer to the dozens of men who had crammed into the back of a shop in Tawalata Town ... read more »

Liberia:  World Bank Provides U.S.$380,000 Grant for Forest Dependent Youth

The NEWS, 9 September 2012

The World Bank has provided a grant of US$380, 000 to the Liberian government to assist forest dependent youth in developing income-generating enterprises for themselves. read more »

Rwanda:  Forest Conservation Campaign Intensifies

The New Times, 21 September 2012

The rural communities in the districts of Nyamagabe, Bugesera, Nyaruguru, Burera, Nyanza, Rulindo and Karongi have stepped up efforts to plant trees as a way of preventing ... read more »

Africa:  African Policy Makers Seek to Reduce Pollution for Clean Air Benefits and Climate Protection (press release)

United Nations Environment Program, 20 September 2012

Today, high-level government officials, policymakers, environmental experts and industrial stakeholders from 15 countries converged in Africa for the first time in order to ... read more »

Kenya:  Forest Conservers Want Say in Bill

The Star, 21 September 2012

COMMUNITY forest stakeholders have called for the establishment of policies to ensure the equitable sharing of benefits accrued from the forests. read more »

Liberia:  Notorious Malaysian Company Surfaces in Liberia

The Inquirer, 25 September 2012

A comprehensive investigation by this paper has unearthed that a notorious Malaysian logging company (Samling) has surfaced in Liberia as a business partner to a Liberian logging ... read more »

Cameroon:  U.S. Firm Under Fire Over Palm Oil Project

AlertNet, 24 September 2012

A huge palm oil project in Cameroon's rainforest, led by a U.S.-based agribusiness, Herakles Farms, is stirring up controversy. Environmentalists warn it will destroy precious ... read more »