Videos
Interview with Christian Kroll – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
In 2009, Christian Kroll founded Ecosia as a start-up search engine that uses its profits to plant trees and combat global deforestation. With more than 7 million active users, Ecosia is known for its industry-leading standards of corporate transparency and user privacy, alongside its mission to restore the world’s degraded and vulnerable forests, in turn […]
Interview with Claire Nasike – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Claire Nasike is a Food For Life Campaigner at Greenpeace Africa, the third awardee of the Wangari Maathai scholarship and the founder of the Hummingbird Foundation an initiative that connects school children to nature by establishing organic food and botanical gardens. In her free time, she loves reading, and writing articles on her eco-blog www.conservationatheart.wordpress.comwhich […]
GLF in conversation with Hans Friederich – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Dr. Friederich, a Dutch-born geographer, has been leading INBAR since 2014. Previous to this, he was the IUCN Pan-European Regional Director, overseeing operations in Europe, Russia and Central Asia, while having also managed the organizations global fundraising unit. He has also worked in IUCN’s Eastern Africa Regional Office, as senior technical advisor for the Ministry […]
Interview with Hiroto Mitsugi – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Hiroto Mitsugi is FAO’s Assistant Director-General of Forestry Department since 21 June 2017. He is a Japanese national, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture (Forestry and Forest Products) from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, and a Master of Science degree in Forestry Extension from the University of Reading, UK. He started his career in 1987 with […]
Why traditional knowledge matters: GLF in conversation with Janene Yazzie
27 Dec 2018
Janene Yazzie is a community organizer and human rights advocate that has worked on development and energy issues with Indigenous communities across the United States for the past 12 years. Co-founder of Sixth World Solutions LLP., and co-founder of the Navajo Nation Little Colorado River Watershed Chapters Association (LCRWCA), she has built expertise in infrastructure […]
Interview with Jingyan Jiang – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Jingyan Jiang, The first PHD of Bamboo furniture design and manufacture in domestic China. The national senior furniture designer. The vice director in furniture specification of national light industry instructor committee of the ministry of education. The dean of 618 innovative department of bamboo branches. The dean of Bamboo industry research area of Yongan city. […]
Interview with Tony Simons – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Tony Simons has worked for over 30 years on issues at the agriculture/forestry interface. This experience has been gained in over 50 countries in the private sector (Shell), academia (University of Oxford), official development assistance (ODA/DFID) and research (CGIAR). He has a PhD in tree genetics from Cambridge University (UK) as well as an Honorary […]
Interview with Katherine Mana-Galido – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
KATHERINE MANA-GALIDO is currently working as Advocacy Program Coordinator of NTFP-EP Philippines, a non-government organization working to improve the quality of life of forest dependent communities and on NTFP development in the context of sustainable forest management. Her work entails her active participation in multi-stakeholder engagements including policy technical working groups that promote sustainable forest […]
