Global Trees Campaign staff attended the G8 Civil Society Outreach meeting on the 17th of March, the day before the meeting of the G8 Environment and Development Ministers in Derby. The purpose of the session was to provide a forum for civil society groups to discuss illegal logging and climate change & Africa and prepare a set of recommendations on how to tackle these issues for presentation before the ministers the next day. Those present included international NGOs, industry representatives and independent interest groups and individuals.

For the full press release issued jointly by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department for International Development (Dfid) click on www.globaltrees.org/downloads/G8defrapress.pdf .