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05 September 2018 the Netherlands
This annual report highlights our achievements and work during 2017 towards realising conditions that enable climate-smart landscapes and therefore the promotion of the sustainable use of forests and trees for the benefit of local people and the global community.
04 September 2018 Colombia
For several years, Tropenbos Colombia has been supporting local knowledge holders of various ethnic groups to document their knowledge about sacred sites and the spiritual relevance that these hold for communities in the Amazon.
04 September 2018 Bolivia
In 2017, TBI’s partner Instituto Boliviano de investigación Forestal (IBIF) helped to strengthen the role played by the Central Indígena de Comunidades de Lomerío (CICOL) in natural resource management of Lomerío’s indigenous territory, which is home to more than 6,000 Chiquitano people.
04 September 2018 Ghana
In 2017, Tropenbos Ghana contributed to a revised policy framework released by the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC).
30 August 2018
Showcasing the success of large-scale restoration of landscapes burdened by natural or man-made disasters, the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR),= of which TBI is partner and collaborator, launched this week the report: Restoring forests and landscapes, the key to sustainable future.
18 July 2018 Ghana
While in the past, traditional customary laws were enough to keep people from trespassing on certain parts of forested landscapes such as sacred groves, which often served as a repository of the original fauna and flora of a forest, and from hunting, farming and fishing on specified days and periods which also sought to arrest the overexploitation of forest and water resources, the advent of Western Civilisation saw the demise of these laws.