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APFNet wraps up the Mid-term Evaluation for capacity building project for Pacific Islands

To enhance the capacity of sustainable forest management in Fiji, Tonga and Niue, APFNet in collaboration with Secretariat of the Pacific Commun...

01 Aug 2018

Projects

Helping Lao PDR to Keep an “Eye” on their Forests

Fire and rainforests - beyond the famous haze in Indonesia – may not seem like the most intuitive combination. Current conversations about forests...

13 Jul 2018

Projects

A Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement Signed between APFNet and Beijing Forestry University

On May ,4th the Framework Agreement on Strategic Cooperation between APFNet and Beijing Forestry University (BFU) was signed by Mr. Lu D...

04 May 2018

Partnership Capacity building

A forest fire was successfully monitored and suppressed with the help of APFNet-funded Forest Watcher System in Tamao Zoo, Cambodia

On April 14, 2018, a forest fire in Tamao Zoo was monitored and successfully extinguished, preventing it’s spreading to a wider area with larger...

14 Apr 2018

Projects

The Fourth Meetings of the Council and Board of Directors Concluded to Shape Second Decade of the APFNet

The APFNet Council and Board of Directors met respectively on 25 and 27-28 March 2018, to review the work of APFNet in 2017 and decide on work ...

28 Mar 2018

Institutional matter

The First Meeting of Sino-ASEAN Network of Forestry Research Institutes (SANFRI) was held in Beijing

At the sideline of APFNet’s 10th anniversary celebration, Sino-ASEAN Network of Forestry Research Institutes (SANFRI) was formally ...

28 Mar 2018

Capacity building

Promoting higher forestry education through funding online forestry courses development

With the witness of Mr. Peng Youdong, Deputy Administrator of the State Administration of Forestry and Grassland, China, an agreement signing cer...

28 Mar 2018

Capacity building Projects

A renewed focus on community forestry

Almost one third of the world’s forest area is under some form of community-based forest management. Communities therefore play a pivotal rol...

28 Mar 2018

Policy dialogues

Reforming Policies Favoring Forest Rehabilitation

Policy is a guiding factor affecting the way that forests are managed. Currently many economies are still struggling to achieve positive policy results. I...

27 Mar 2018

Policy dialogues

Bringing new generation and new horizon for forestry together

In celebration of APFNet 10th Anniversary, Conference on Forest Rehabilitation in the Asia-Pacific Region and Associated Meetings was organized du...

26 Mar 2018

Capacity building

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