Media enquiries

We are one of the world's leading forest research institutes. Journalists seeking expert comment or data on forest issues can contact us.

• Bruno Vander Velde

  Media Liaison & Outreach Manager
  Bogor, Indonesia
  Cell: +62 811 8006 150
  Email: b.vandervelde@cgiar.org

• Gabriela Ramirez Galindo

  Latin America Communications Officer
  Lima, Peru
  Cell: +511955818846
  Email: g.galindo@cgiar.org

• Babatope Aramide Akinwande

  Africa Communications Officer
  Yaounde, Cameroon
  Cell: +237 7217 3515
  Email: b.akinwande@cgiar.org

• Adinda Hasan

  Asia Communications Officer
  Bogor, Indonesia
  Cell: +62 811 8609 338
  Email: a.hasan@cgiar.org

• Fawziah Selamat

  Climate Change Communications Officer
  Bogor, Indonesia
  Cell: +62 811 8505 112
  Email: f.selamat@cgiar.org

• Budhy Kristanty

  Communications Assistant
  Bogor, Indonesia
  Cell: +62 816 637 353
  Email: b.kristanty@cgiar.org

CIFOR undertakes research in more than 30 countries on these issues that are relevant to forests:

• illegal logging
• community forestry
• biodiversity
• conflict
• decentralisation
• floods
• forest rehabilitation
• tree plantations
• non-timber forest products
• local livelihoods
• forest fires
• poverty
• deforestation
• secondary forests
• climate change
• pulp and paper
• forests and corporate debt