Fern (also Stichting Fern) is a Dutch foundation created in 1995. It is an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) set up to keep track of the European Union's involvement in forests and coordinate NGO activities at the European level. Fern works to protect forests and the rights of people who depend on them. Fern is a non-hierarchical flat organization. Currently, it has four offices (Delft, the Netherlands; Paris, France; Brussels, Belgium; and Moreton-in-Marsh, UK) and around 18 staff.