Pages tagged with “forestry”

• Réseau CREF

  We are very excited to provide details for the last of our recently funded projects. Synchronicity Earth is supporting Réseau CREF (Le Réseau pour la Conservation et la Réhabilitation des Ecosystèmes Forestiers / Network for the Conservation and Restoration of Forest Ecosystems) to develop and support community forestry initiatives in the Beni-Lubero Region, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Click…

• Rainforest Foundation UK publishes report on commercial palm oil expansion in the Congo Basin

  Rainforest Foundation UK has published a report about the worrying expansion of commercial palm oil plantations throughout the world’s second largest rainforest, the Congo Basin.  “Seeds of Destruction” identifies half a million hectares of industrial oil palm projects that are getting underway in the Congo Basin rainforest, much of which is driven by the companies who have already destroyed forests…

• TFT Centre for Social Excellence

  Synchronicity Earth is funding TFT (formerly the Tropical Forest Trust) to provide core support for the Centre for Social Excellence in Cameroon. TFT addresses deforestation by working with forest companies to helps them transform themselves and the stories of their products. Whilst working with logging companies in the Congo Basin, TFT realised that whilst they were not in short supply…

• Global Canopy Programme: Forests and Finance Programme

  Synchronicity Earth is supporting GCP in a project that seeks to create a bridge between finance and forests. The outcome will be clear evidence to policymakers and the financial sector of the conditions necessary to leverage public/private sector finance into large-scale projects that protect forests and enhance livelihoods in developing countries.

• Portfolios & Projects

  Our in-house team conducts research and analysis on a number of important themes in global conservation, as well as performing due diligence on charities. This helps us map out where the greatest needs are for conservation, what needs to be done, and the most effective organisations to partner with. This research forms the basis of our portfolios. These are made…

• Global Witness: Critical intervention to tackle Industrial Forest Use

  Global Witness seeks to change the mindset, policies and practices of actors involved in industrial forest use to permanently accept that natural forests must be excluded from their activities, and to achieve the reallocation of financial and policy support to sustainable locally-controlled forestry.

• Industrial Logging

  Logging for commercially valuable timber has been a major driver of forest loss and degradation across the tropics. Traditional logging techniques involve clear-cutting, which is attractive in tropical forests because of its high profitability, but devastating for wildlife and forest communities. Southeast Asian forests were decimated from the 1950s onwards by large-scale logging operations to produce timber for export around…

• Palm Oil

  The palm oil boom in South East Asia – 86% of the world’s supply comes from Indonesia and Malaysia – has had significant environmental impacts. Half of new oil palm plantations are established on highly diverse lowland forests in Borneo, Sumatra and Malaysia, causing extinctions and threatening others such as the orangutan. Peatland drainage for oil palm plantations has helped…

• Pulp and Paper

  Pulp and paper have close links with palm oil, with many companies in Southeast Asia involved in the production of both. It will not be surprising to find out that – like palm oil – the production of pulp and paper also brings with it environmental side effects.