In Focus
In recent years, millions of people across Southeast Asia have been empowered to manage local forests. But as countries in the region continue to...
Practitioner's Insights
In rural areas and villages across Southeast Asia, women depend on forest products for food, fuel, medicine and income. As RECOFTC’s focal point on...
Practitioner's Insights
COP27 could be called largely uninspiring; a plateau in progress marked by periodic bright points. It also represented an effective transition to a...
Practitioner's Insights
Leading into this year’s UN climate talks, known as COP27, there has been much discussion on priorities and how emphasis on implementation as opposed...
Talk of the Forest
Atop a steep hill in Santisuk District of Nan Province, 26-year-old farmer Wararat Wutti is planting native tree species with a group of volunteers...
Practitioner's Insights
Humanity’s response to the climate change crisis has largely not been guided by science but rather influenced by communication campaigns conducted by...
Stories of Change
When a local businessman tried to seize part of the O’Plovlok community’s forest land in Cambodia’s Kampong Thom Province in January 2021, local...
Perspectives
The Royal Thai Government announced plans, in 2020, to increase the national tree cover to 55 percent by 2037. It is an ambitious target. Across the...
Stories of Change
In Viet Nam’s Nghe An Province, a forest landscape restoration initiative called FLOURISH works with the local government and local businesses to...