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04 January 2016 Ghana
Over a hundred and sixty (160) tree growers in sixteen communities in Ghana have benefited from capacity building workshops organised by Tropenbos International (TBI) Ghana as part of a series of measures geared towards strengthening tree growers and their associations in Ghana.
04 January 2016 Ghana
Twenty school children from the Choggu Demonstration Primary School in the Northern Region, the Kultamise Junior High and the Ghana Senior High schools in the Upper East and Eastern Regions respectively which came first in a on Climate Change for Ghanaian school children were afforded a study tour of some key forestry locations by Tropenbos International (TBI) Ghana as part of their prize.
04 December 2015 Ghana
Statistics released by the Forest Services Division (FSD) of the Forestry Commission (FC) indicates that Ghana has available a total of one million, seventy-five thousand hectares (1,075,000 ha) of land for forest plantation development. Out of this, Six hundred thousand hectares (600,000 ha) are located in the off-reserve forests, three hundred thousand hectares (300,000 ha) in on-reserve forests in the Savannah Belt and one hundred and seventy-five thousand hectares (175,000 ha) in on-reserve forests in the High Forest Zone.
01 December 2015 Indonesia
Jakarta Post, 23 November 2015 - Once again, catastrophic forest and land fires in Indonesia have become a hot issue in the national and international press. Haze from Sumatra to Papua has been creating massive problems in Indonesia and in its neighbouring countries.
30 November 2015 the Netherlands
“We know about the interrelation between climate, water and forests but we have seen that the current models are not as ‘right’ as we predicted” was one of the main statements at the seminar ‘Managing the climate-water-forest nexus for sustainable development – Are we on the right track?’ held in Wageningen, The Netherlands on 12 November 2015. Three presenters and three panellists shared their knowledge and tried to explain why the climate-water-forest nexus is so important in terms of environmental conservation and well-being of the society. Which are the new findings around the interrelations of these three topics, which are the misconceptions of the current models, and what can be done in order to head towards a more sustainable development?
30 November 2015 Ghana
Destruction of tree saplings as a result of cattle grazing by Fulani herdsmen constitutes a major drawback to tree plantation development in Ghana, the Forest Services Department (FSD) of the Forestry Commission (FC) has announced at a Tree Growers Association Workshop organised by Tropenbos International (TBI) Ghana in Kumasi on November 13, 2015.