Onderdeel van project: Born Circular. Wrijfstroken tegen betonwanden worden traditioneel in hout uitgevoerd: wrijfhout. Met tropisch hardhout kan een lange levensduur worden verkregen ten koste van de biodiversiteit in het regenwoud. Alternatief voor tropisch hardhout vormt PE: virgin en recyclaat. In …

Rainforest Alliance Certified farmers complained about insufficient income after having been certified for more than 5 years. The research aimed at assessing the effect of the Rainforest Alliance Certification standard on certified smallholder cocoa farmers within the cocoa value chain in Ghana.

In de afgelopen vijf decennia zijn tropische regenwouden in aantal afgenomen. Desondanks ondersteunen tropische regenwouden de helft van de biodiversiteit op aarde. Daarbij zijn tropische regenwouden verantwoordelijk voor het opslaan van een kwart van de terrestrische koolstofdioxideopslag. Verschillende …

The rehabilitation forest on the Waste Dump Paringin South (WDPS) of PT Adaro Indonesia was established in 2015 and 2016. The area is on the Paringin mining site near Tanjung, South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Although trees were planted on the whole area and the starting conditions were similar, the area …

This report is the result of a study done at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. It is part of a bachelor thesis of the Forest- and Nature Management – Tropical Forestry Program at Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. This study is the first in a series …

Within the Philippines Forest Conversion (Kaingin) and charcoal production are still two majors problems which threaten the last remaining patches of rainforest that have survived the destructive patterns of the last 50 years of intensive large-scale forestry management. In particular the island of Palawan …