Join us today for FSC Friday, our annual celebration of responsible forestry.

The G7 Summit held in Japan this year had a special feature – almost all the wooden products that were used for the event, from the head roundtable where the G7 leaders met to the lunch ‘bento’ boxes, were made of FSC-certified wood. It even featured a not-so-common FSC-certified product, cypress essential oil.

Jasper Makala, Director of the Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative (MCDI), one of Tanzania’s most successful conservation organisations, has won a prestigious Whitley Award for his work to bring rural communities together to manage their forests sustainably.