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The Rwandan government’s plans to restore the country’s lost forest lands and boost national development, show real political commitment to deal with ecosystem degradation and its impacts on the rural poor, says Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ urges other countries to recognize the potential of healthy forests for…

Video message of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Ramsar Convention

Forests are a good investment option. In the words of one of the world’s leading international news and business weeklies:

The forests that provide most of Beijing’s water are being given a new lease of life by the partial lifting of a logging quota for the first time in 20 years.

The Observer Ethical Awards has honored Carole Saint Laurent, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Senior Forest Policy Advisor, as one of the 20 global figures who will exert influence in 2011.

What is a forest? ...at best something nice to look at, somewhere to walk their dog, a refuge from the hurly-burly of daily life. How sexy are forests? as a forest expert...you have to realise that most people take decisions not based on the head, but on the…

The world’s forests are essential to life in all its diversity and to attaining humanity’s biggest goals such as reducing poverty, curbing climate change and achieving sustainable development. Throughout 2011 Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ will work towards making sure that forests deliver their maximum potential for…

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ welcomes the resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly yesterday to establish a new international body designed to boost the global response to the loss of the world’s biodiversity and ecosystems.