New selfies in the forest
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Last month we shared the launch of our partner IPÊ’s Selfies in the Forest Web Platform.
Access to forest resources: Women’s rights in Burkina Faso
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Trees have the opportunity to contribute to the sustainable development of communities across the globe while fighting climate change. They can empower women, provide food and secure incomes.
The fruit seller
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Meet Shabani Haji. With our support, she has planted and nurtured a healthy little forest on her land.
WeForest CEO at Salesforce Essentials Conference
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WeForest’s CEO was keynote speaker at Essentials, the annual SalesForce user conference in Mechelen, Belgium, on June 21, 2016.
An update from Tigray
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On Saturday 22 October 2016 in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, WeForest held an on-site consultative meeting and discussion with District Officers, Mekele University, community leaders and community representatives to discuss and plan the next stages of the Exclosure project development in Seret, Central Tigray.
Natural resource management is conflict management and vice versa
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Natural resource management is conflict management.
Vandemoortele
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Vandemoortele launched the campaign “What do you do for our future generation of cooks?” with the “1 mayonnaise = 1 tree” tagline.
Meet the Khasi
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In the hills of India’s Meghalaya region, communities of indigenous people known as the Khasi live alongside luscious cloud forests and sacred groves.
Wetlands: reservoirs of carbon
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When you think of a wetland you do not often think of tall, dense forests. Neverthless wetlands – areas that maintain a wet soil surface over a certain period of time, ranging from permanently inundated with water to periodicially drained – are often forested and they are also extremely important for climate change mitigation and adaptation because of their role in carbon sequestration.
The urban forest
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Urban trees, that is, those in towns and cities, provide us with a wealth of benefits.