And the winner of the 2011 Future Policy Award is ..

On September 21st, at the UN headquarters in New York, the World Future Council, an advocacy group for environmental and social rights of future generations, announced the winners of its 2011 Future Policy Award. This award crowns the world best forest policies. And the winners are…Forest law in Rwanda won the first prize. The second place was a tie between the United States’ Lacey Act and the Gambia, for its transfer policy of forest tenure to local communities which allowed reducing illegal logging and forest fires, to slow down desertification and to draw profits from forest products. Ecofund congratulates the winners! Photo by Hellio & Van Ingen

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