Hannah Scrase (Woodland Trust/FERN)

Listen to a short documentary aired on World Radio Switzerland (Geneva based English language radio; http://worldradio.ch/index.shtml) about the green business of investing in plantations. Find out about the commendable business of Reinvest Partners. They provide alternative investments opportunities replanting bare lands, in accordance to sustainable practices and local legislations. Also interviewed for the programme, TFT CEO Scott Poynton reminds the listener about the importance of taking into account the needs and practices of all local stakeholders. In particular, he talks about the importance of Customary Law, which is very often ignored by national laws.

Jacques Chirac, ancien President de la Republique francaise, s'adresse ici aux auditeurs de la radio communautaire Biso na Biso (BnB). La radio, soutenue par la Fondation Chirac depuis 2008, est la premiere station de radio indigene du Bassin du Congo. Situee a Pokola dans le nord de la Republique du Congo, une region ou environ 16'000 personnes vivent en lien direct avec les forets, dont 9'000 Pygmees.

Robert Hunink is President of the Board of Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB) and Executive Vice President of DLH, CIB's parent company. Robert worked for 35 years in the global timber industry and more than 15 of those have been in some capacity with CIB. He has an enormous wealth of knowledge and experience and really was the architect of CIB's push for FSC certification. Here TFT's Scott Poynton speaks with Robert about CIB's FSC project and what it has meant for the company.

A forest ecologist by training, Jutta Kill has been leading FERN's climate and forests campaign since 2000. Based on over two decades of experience with and analysis of intergovernmental initiatives to halt deforestation, FERN's work on forests and climate highlights why forest peoples' rights must be safeguarded by any climate agreement that hopes to reduce emissions from deforestation in a fair and effective way and why financing forest climate initiatives through carbon trading will be a bad deal for forests, forest peoples and the climate.