In December of 2016, China announced that it will be banning all commerce in ivory by the end of 2017, a move that would shut down the world’s largest ivory market and could deal a critical blow to the practice of elephant poaching in Africa.

FSC joined the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration in 2016. In 2017, FSC is taking an exciting step to participate in the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration, which aims to restore 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030.

During our 2016 members meeting in Johannesburg, our members asked us to create more platforms and opportunities to improve communication between different chambers and also create a more unified Africa membership base.