Gabon
Rethinking Community-based Forest Management in the Congo Basin
This study considers the constraints and opportunities for community-based forest management in the region with a careful examination of indigenous and customary systems of forest resource management and rights.
Seeds of Destruction: Expansion of Industrial Oil Palm in the Congo Basin
The cultivation of palm oil at an industrial-scale has wreaked havoc with the rainforests and forest peoples of South-East Asia and is now threatening rainforests in the Congo Basin. This report, the result of original research commissioned by The Rainforest Foundation UK, lifts the lid on the new expansion of oil palm developments in the … Read more
Stocktaking: Status of Legal Tenure Recognition of Rights and the Role Community Territorial Mapping – Gabon
This case study on Gabon finds that there is an urgent need to review community use of forest resources to increase government knowledge of community use but also to capture community knowledge for future management.
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