Blue Moon Fund

The ongoing support of the Blue Moon Fund is expanding the GFTN’s ability to bring supply and demand chains together to achieve sustainable forestry. A renewed grant from Blue Moon Fund for the next two years will support North America Forest & Trade Network's (NAFTN) activities with U.S. buyers of wood that source from Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Russia, and the Amazon region.

A significant portion of the grant will go to the China Forest & Trade Network to expand its membership base of traders and manufacturers, improve its capacity to provide company assessments, and facilitate market links with responsible producers. These goals follow a successful year of Blue Moon-funded activity that saw the launch of the North America and China Forest & Trade Networks, creation of trade links based on responsible forestry in Brazil, and outreach to over thirty companies operating in these areas.