May 16, 2012
Janette Bulkan recently wrote a series of six articles published in Guyana’s newspaper Stabroek News. The articles look in detail at the operations of an Indian coffee company with logging operations in Guyana.
The articles, which are posted in full below (and can be downloaded here – pdf file, 306.7 KB), ran under [...]
April 26, 2012
Two articles from Janette Bulkan, published in the Commonwealth Forestry Association Newsletter looking at logging and illegal logging in Guyana.
The failure of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) to implement meaningful change to address illegal logging is notable, despite the fact that this is one of the progress indicators in the 2009 [...]
April 1, 2012
A round up of the week’s news on REDD, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly.
ITTO Supports Development of Forest Planning Model in Guyana
Climate Change Policy & Practice, March 2012 | The Reducing Deforestation [...]
March 21, 2012
Last week, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced the appointment of former President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, as IUCN High Level Envoy for Sustainable Development in Forest Countries and Patron of Nature.
Yes, you read that correctly. The world’s largest and oldest global environmental organisation has decided to hire [...]
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