The government of Guatemala, through the Honorable National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP), has granted a 25-year extension to the community-managed forestry concession of Carmelita.
The Rainforest Alliance has been selected as one of the preferred certification partners by the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The Rainforest Alliance is aware of an investigative report published on October 23, 2019 in the Washington Post, which highlights challenges in cocoa farming in West Africa, one of the most important cocoa-producing regions in the world.... Continue Reading
The Rainforest Alliance acknowledges and applauds the latest IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land as an essential resource and benchmark for policy decision-makers and business leaders.
The Rainforest Alliance welcomes the renewed commitment from the European Union to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, as stated in the Communication from the European Commission. As one of the most active consumer zones in the world responsible for about 10% of the global impact on tropical forests, the EU is on the right track […]
The Smallholder Access Program seeks to make Forest Stewardship Council® certification more accessible to private landowners of 250 or fewer acres. The Rainforest Alliance, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), and a consortium of forward-minded forestry corporations announce the launch of the Smallholder Access Program. FSC, long considered the gold standard of ecologically-responsible, socially-conscious forest management, has […]