Submitted by Website Officer on 27 May 2014 - 12:51pm
Press Release
The city of Dar es Salaam is set to host the 2nd Annual East Africa Timber Trade Stakeholders Forum to be held at the Giraffe Ocean Hotel from 28th - 29th May 2014.
This year’s Forum is set to help coordinate solutions to the illegal and unsustainable timber trade in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique. It is a follow up to last year’s meeting when participants from the region first came together to assess regional timber trade needs and actions.
Over 50 participants from various sectors involved in conservation and timber trade are expected to attend this meeting organized by TRAFFIC, WWF and the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum.
The illegal trade in timber represents a significant loss in local and national revenues, with estimates for the continent as a whole indicating loses of over $17 billion per year. In the eastern Africa region the illegal timber trade is also a driver of environmental degradation. What is needed to reverse these negative impacts is better knowledge of how the illegal trade functions at various scales, improved law enforcement and positive incentives for a legal and sustainable trade. These needs will be discussed at this Forum meeting bringing together participants from regional bodies like SADC and EAC together with national forest departments, researchers, the private sector and international timber trade experts.
The Forum will also seek to influence current and future interventions on timber trade through sharing new information and aims to develop an agreed set of actions to go forward over the next year.
For more information please contact John Kabubu on +255 687 206 184 or email jkabubu@wwfesarpo.org
Submitted by Website Officer on 24 February 2009 - 1:55pm
The Division of Forestry and Beekeeping has organized this Review of stakeholders to continue the process of revising the National Forestry and Beekeeping Policy.
When:
19 February 2009 - 4:00am to 9:00am
Submitted by Website Officer on 13 August 2008 - 4:32pm
Submitted by c.sianga on 6 August 2008 - 12:48pm
TNRF will be facilitating a workshop on the implementation approach of Mama Misitu campaign. The Mama Misitu campaign is a follow up work of a report submitted by TRAFFIC who were conmmissioned by the Government of Tanzania and supported by the Developmemt Partners Group. The workshop will run for a full day on Thursday 14th August 2008 with its parners (NGOs) who are the implementors of the campaign with support from the TNRF campaign unit based in Dar Es Salaam.
When:
14 August 2008 - 4:30am to 1:30pm
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