Bamboo in Bali
After four years at the helm of the Secretariat of INBAR, I finally visited the Green School in Ubud village in central Bali. This is a well-known bamboo development, with…
After four years at the helm of the Secretariat of INBAR, I finally visited the Green School in Ubud village in central Bali. This is a well-known bamboo development, with…
Happy New Year from the International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation Last weekend, I attended the China Council for International Cooperation for Environment and Development (CCICED) as delegate and international Member….
A few weeks ago, I was in Ghana, one of the 18 Member states of INBAR in Africa, and the host of our Regional Office for West Africa. The INBAR…
I have just returned from Nepal where I attended the National Consultation Workshop on “Bamboo for Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Nepal”. This is one of the activities in a CFC-funded…
I celebrated Christmas 2015 in Thailand. My wife and I visited good friends in Chiang Mai, and we subsequently spent some days further north in rural Thailand. It was a…
Greening “One Belt – One Road” with bamboo and rattan This morning, I attended the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) Annual General Meeting for a…
I attended the 12th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in Ankara. The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) is a new Observer to UNCCD, and…
I attended the 11th meeting of the United Nations Forum on Forests in New York in May this year, as the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) is an…
I visited Yunnan Province in southern China several times during the first years of this century, when I was helping the local authorities and the UNESCO National Committee of China…
I was recently in Europe, and talked with different people about bamboo. Many see bamboos as a threat, and talk about the invasiveness of bamboo. I wonder how big a threat…
