Forest Fund

↟ To protect our remaining natural forests we must prioritise the farming of trees while encouraging wood as a substitute to conventional materials.

[Mere Plantations @MerePlantations]

Actions, not words, will count post @COP26

Improving soil health that has been degraded for decades, creating and maintaining firebreaks, incorporating buffer zones for #biodiversity, sustainably growing #timber on a coppice basis whilst locking up carbon #TogetherForOurPlanet

[Mere Plantations @MerePlantations]

The building material nature intended. Renewable, recyclable and regenerating, wood is the perfect alternative to replace carbon intensive materials.

Management and maintenance means we can keep our forests providing and sequestering carbon for longer.

#SDGs🇬🇭 #COP26 @UKinGhana

[Mere Plantations @MerePlantations]

Our managed plantations with maintained fire-rides are wildlife corridors for #nature.
Through good forest governance, and forest education, we are protecting old growth trees from illegal logging and wildfire, whilst growing millions of new trees.
#WorldNatureConversationDay🦋🇬🇭

[Mere Plantations @MerePlantations]

Healthy, growing trees are the ultimate carbon capture and storage machines. Fixing carbon through year-round growth in the Ghanaian climate, perfect for #Teak.
We encourage understory vegetation that plays a vital role in regulating soil carbon and nitrogen.
#NetZeroWeek2021🇬🇭🇬🇧

[Andrew Heald @andyheald]

Current timber/lumber prices - both via @Forest_MOB Facebook page

[Mere Plantations @MerePlantations]

#Satellite data for #forestry is useful when coupled with knowledge on the ground e.g. #tree height, MAI, species, density and maturity, vegetation, soil quality, fire damage, encroachment.
With deciduous stands, leaf flush, leaf tinting and leaf fall are also important factors.

[Greenwich Design 💙 @greenwichdesign]

As it's #EarthDay, we wanted to give a shout out to one of clients doing some amazing things for the planet. @theforestfund's goal is to end the destruction of old growth forests by promoting profitable, low barrier to entry reforestation projects that scale up really big.

[Forest Fund @TheForestFund]

@fcghana2020 Great work Ghana

[Forestry Commission Ghana @forestryghana]

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor, MP, has inaugurated a National Planning Committee to steer the affairs of the Grren Ghana Project in Accra.
This Project seeks to ensure the planting of 5million trees in a day, on 11th June, 2021.

[Forest Fund @TheForestFund]

@hanslope @johanntasker Speak to Greenwich Design, they are great, check out https://t.co/1o77UicVJG they designed and built using, WordPress platform, awesome people.

[Mere Plantations @MerePlantations]

Sustainably grown, legally sourced tropical hardwoods have an important part to play in the world advancing toward a circular economy.

The natural alternative to concrete, steel and plastics.

Combining #nature and #nurture.

#Teak #SRC #carbon #resilience #SDGs #FLEGT

[European Forest Institute (EFI) @europeanforest]

How much wood do we have to support a transformational change to a sustainable bioeconomy? And for what purposes should we use it? #CBEF2021 Find out more: https://t.co/f1PIdUQ81u

[EcoCare Ghana @ecocareghana]

The forestry sector of Ghana contributes about 30% of export earning and 12% to the national GDP. The Timber industry supports the livelihood of about 3 million Ghanaians. Investment in forest restoration will create green jobs in Ghana. @FAO #IntForestDay #RestoreGhForests

[Forest Fund @TheForestFund]

@ZacGoldsmith it's a shame we could not hear your comments today. #GlobalForestSummit #zacgoldsmith

[Paul Brannen 🇺🇦 @PaulBrannenNE]

An open letter to Bill Gates from a Finnish wood man - including the comment "If concrete were a state, it’s emissions would be third largest after the USA and China." https://t.co/4d4IP78J1Q

[Philip Smith @PhilipSmithFCDO]

The UK is the largest funder to GAVI, the vaccines alliance, so it's great to see that Ghana is officially the first country in the world to deliver COVAX vaccines by drone! Congrats to @gavi, @zipline & the people of Mpanya in Ashanti region.

Read more: https://t.co/RjsrHllgT0

[Crowther Lab @CrowtherLab]

The protection & restoration of land is for the local biodiversity & the people that depend on it. But as the network of collective action grows, it benefits all of us. @TWCrowther

Register for the #GFS2021 this Friday, March 12th & join the conversation https://t.co/QXXVErpdtM

[Andrew Heald @andyheald]

Great presentations on Timber & Carbon at this evening's Scottish Forestry & Timber Technology meeting from @JamesJonesGroup @MattStevens0n & @forestsandwood - should be available here soon https://t.co/tDfieSVrOz

[Andrew Heald @andyheald]

If you’ve ever wondered how they make a glue-lam timber beam