In January Guyana awarded U.S. timber firm Simon & Shock International a 400,000-hectare (988,400-acre) logging concession near the Brazilian border. Final approval hinges on the completion of an ...

Growing timber exports and rising interest in biofuels are raising concerns that deforestation could accelerate in the South American country of Guyana. Guyana is a small, lightly populated country on ...

A subsidiary of Samling Global, a Hong Kong-listed, Malaysia-based timber supplier, is among logging companies being collectively fined about US$1.4 million for breaking forestry rules in Guyana.

The Wachipan community, nine groups in southern Guyana, have obviously had enough of their illegal freeloaders. The drone, made, if you please, of bowstrings, a lollipop stick, and other consumables, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) – Guyana on Tuesday launched a GUY$900 million forestry fund aimed at providing assistance to investors in the forestry industry. “We see the forestry sector continuing to ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 7, 2011 (ENS) – Deforestation rates in the South American country of Guyana have increased during the last year, despite a 2009 agreement with the Norwegian government aimed ...

Samling Global, a Hong Kong-listed timber company, has been fined about US$500,000 for illegal logging activities in the South American state of Guyana. Shares of the Malaysian-based company were ...

The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), through the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), has launched a new project coined “Piloting Bamboo for Restoration and Sustainable Livelihoods in Guyana.” A ...

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On 1 December, Winrock International and The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) published the news on their websites that Winrock’s Architecture on REDD+ Transactions (ART) had issued the world ...

The Council has adopted an agreement to improve forest governance and help combat illegal logging in Guyana. The Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), which the EU and Guyana signed in Montreal on 15 ...