Varaha’s promise of community-led restoration stands tested in what was once Asia’s largest and finest tropical grassland.

GFC members and allies are working together to develop a new map highlighting community-led initiatives across the Global South, while documenting the conditions that help them flourish and the barriers they face. The Gender-Just Real Solutions Map will offer a growing resource for communities, civil society and policymakers looking beyond false, market-based solutions.

In a statement following the devastating flash floods in Nepal and Tibet, the Global Forest Coalition expresses its sorrow and solidarity with affected communities and calls for urgent humanitarian support. GFC also calls for action to address the climate crisis and rethink extractive and high-risk development in fragile Himalayan ecosystems, putting community rights, resilience and ecological integrity at the heart of recovery and reconstruction.

A recent investigation by Danish newspaper Politiken reveals that Ecotrust has failed to resolve long-standing problems.

At the intersection of gender justice and nature is where Valentina Figuera Martínez’s work exists. It is what consumes her in serving as the Brazil-based Gender Justice and Forests Campaign Coordinator for the Global Forest Coalition (GFC). But it is also what makes up her inherited legacy. Martínez,

​Development banks must stop promoting false solutions that are implemented without community consultation, cause environmental damage, and lead to the further grabbing of local lands and resources.

Join Us at SB64: Grassroots Perspectives on Carbon Markets

The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is among 70 civil society organisations from around the world that have signed an urgent appeal to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet calling for the release of five imprisoned environmental defenders from Mother Nature Cambodia (MNC).

109 organisations urge the IFC to cancel a US$20M loan to Brazil's Agronorte, citing deforestation, Apinajé Indigenous rights violations and supply-chain failures.

The Global Forest Coalition and HOME Alliance are pleased to invite you to join a webinar on land-based geoengineering, that will take place on April 29th

Join Biofuelwatch, Global Forest Coalition, Grain and WALHI Riau to discuss the exponential growth in biofuel demand that the upcoming International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment meeting is likely to usher in, and the implications that this will have on emissions, biodiversity, and communities.

GFC has called on the Dominican courts to urgently overturn the amparo decision issued by the Superior Administrative Court (TSA) ordering the reduction of protected areas in Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic.

Deforestation and land use change can accelerate the spread of zoonotic diseases — infectious illnesses that can spread from animals to humans — including malaria and COVID-19. While habitat…

Across North America and Europe, a movement is taking on the biomass industry and saving some of the world’s last intact forests.

Forest Cover 70 brings together powerful case studies and firsthand testimonies from GFC member groups and allies in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Chile, Morocco, Panama, and Zambia. This edition exposes how e...

By Natalie McClure, Isaac Millians and Amy Guzman. Undergraduate Researchers at Gibson Climate Justice Lab, University of Southern California

La población mundial que vivirá con calor extremo se duplicará para 2050, según un último estudio de la Universidad de Oxford

When a young boy went missing near his mother’s rice field in Indonesian Borneo, the entire village searched for him. After nearly a day, he was found near a large strangler fig tree. The boy insisted...

The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) warmly invites you to a special webinar on 29 January 2026 to launch the latest issue of Forest Cover: From False Solutions

Nigerian authorities must urgently protect environmental and forest defenders, halt all alleged illegal logging in Ekuri Forest, and ensure that law enforcement agencies are not used to undermine community-led conservation, the Global Forest Coalition said today.

The forests of Mexico’s Chiapas state are among the most biodiverse on Earth, yet they face grave danger: Nearly half have already been illegally logged for timber. Please support the campaign of our ...

The “polluter pays” principle is a cornerstone of environmental regulation. It raises billions of dollars each year and has been fundamental in pushing

The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to liquid biofuels. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?

GFC Statement Against Trump’s Illegal Intervention in Venezuela

By Witness Radio team   Uganda’s reforestation projects are promoted as solutions to mitigate the climate crisis. But as they are implemented, there’s a deepening of inequality, destruction of lives, ...

Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown

Gyatso Bista remembers the sacks of kutki. As a child learning to become a healer in Nepal’s kingdom of Lo Manthang, Bista would watch as heaps of the bitter-tasting herb, prized for treating fever,…

Papua New Guinea’s rainforests, which span 28.2 million hectares (69.6 million acres), are among the most biodiverse in the world, hosting an estimated 5-8% of all species. The country also has one…