News on timber legality, responsible sourcing, sustainability schemes, conservation and much more. Stories from our non-profit activities in various parts of the world
Two bamboo plantations which protect watershed and help improve downstream water quality in Pichincha Province, Ecuador have recently been certified against the FSC™ (Forest Stewardship Council™) Ecosystem Services Procedure for its efforts in preserving the ecosystem services. This is…
bookdifferent.com recently interviewed Saúl Blanco, NEPCon's Sustainable Tourism Services Manager, to share his views on how tourism has changed over the last 25 years and how certification labels…
Soaring China’s demand for beef and soy is threatening the Brazilian Amazon that are already plagued by illegal deforestation. The trade war between the United States and China and African swine fever outbreak have increased the demand for Brazilian…
More than 300 investment firms, banks, and pension funds are directly and indirectly responsible for destroying the world’s biggest rainforest to produce palm oil, beef, and rubber, says a new Global Witness investigation titled …
Compagnie Forestière de Transformation (CFT) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recently obtained third-party legality certification for their forest management and logging operations in three concessions near Kisangani in…
“Tourism and Jobs: A better future for all”, is the theme of this year’s World Tourism Day; and at NEPCon, we would like to commemorate it by highlighting the various impacts of responsible tourism of NEPCon…
The issue of biomass consumption in Denmark has garnered wall-to-wall coverage on Danish media over the past few days. The coverage gives an impression that all biomass comes from wood that has been cut from forests where the primary purpose is to supply wood for biomass production.…
From the beginning of the year until August, countless forest fires were recorded in various parts of Germany. In this article, we’ll discuss the impact of some large forest fires recorded in the east German state of Brandenburg, triggered by unexploded…
bookdifferent.com and NEPCon announce our partnership in working on the common goal of making the tourism industry more sustainable. Within this partnership, accommodation providers certified against NEPCon Sustainable Tourism Standard will be featured on bookdifferent.com as…
The Zoological Society of London’s (ZSL) Sustainability Policy Transparency Toolkit (SPOTT) recently evaluated the transparency of 97 companies from the timber and pulp industries. …
Cattle ranching has the greatest impact on Amazon deforestation in Brazil. As discussed in the story above, approximately 75 million hectares have been deforested for this purpose in the Brazilian Amazon.
“Unchecked development” in the Amazon has pushed deforestation rates to near-record levels throughout the world’s largest tropical forest, says a new report titled “Nearing the…
Forest fire was one of the top trending stories globally in August. In this month’s top commodities story, we’ll look at forest fires in the Amazon rainforest and how countries and companies have reacted to these wildfires.
NEPCon recently presented a commemorative plaque to Columbia Forest Product’s employee-owners in recognition of their long-term commitment to landowners and responsible forest management. Columbia Forest Products (Columbia) is North America’s…
It is an old Danish tradition to own a summerhouse and the Danes love it. For Kent Skovgaard, he took this aged-old tradition a notch above. Besides injecting a dose of Danish Hygge in his newly built summerhouse in Nordjylland, he used…
