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Forests are life

Forests are life. рџЊіThey clean the air, protect water, and support the food we eat. They provide livelihoods, drive industries, and safeguard biodiversity. The post Forests are l...

Building a resilient wood-based bioeconomy in Africa

Wood remains one of Africa’s most vital natural resources, supporting livelihoods, economic development and industrial growth across the continent. According to the  Food and Agric...

Is it a SINS? More than $1tr of GDP in Europe, China, and US at risk from deforestation, study warns

New report illustrates how Systemically Important Natural Systems are critical for sustaining economic activity and supply chains

Money does grow on old trees: A first-of-its-kind plan to unlock native forests

How to conserve tropical forests

STANFORD — Six months after last year’s United Nations Climate Conference (COP30), the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) has gone from being a headline-grabbing promise to a...

How carbon finance could give a boost to Japan’s ailing forestry industry

The drop in value of forests has turned them into a burden, but one group hopes carbon credits could reverse that trend, while also helping the planet.

Troubling reality of why Kenya’s forest cover has remained static

The forests are simultaneously being restored and depleted, protected and commercialised expanded and extracted from, often at the same time.

World’s forests in a race against time, warns UN global forest report

The world is losing its forests faster than it can save them, with severe consequences for the climate, biodiversity and over one billion people who depend on forests for their liv...

From siloed nature finance to an 'Earth economy': How to deliver growth through healthy ecosystems

We need a more holistic view of ecosystem benefits if we are to properly integrate its value into sustainable development, writes Jack Hurd from the World Economic Forum and the Tr...

IMF lending programs linked with deforestation should be rethought (commentary)

The price of financial stability should not be environmental destruction. Yet when countries turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for help, their forests may quietly suffe...

Billions Lost as Secret Financial Networks Fuel Forest Destruction in Brazil and Cameroon

SRINAGAR, India, June 8 (IPS) - A new report has found that billions of dollars linked to illegal deforestation are flowing through global supply chains, with secrecy around land...

In Sumatra, social forestry links conservation with livelihoods

TANGGAMUS, Indonesia — When Sri Atmiatun arrived in the hills of the Batutegi region in southern Sumatra’s Lampung province in 2017, the coffee trees were already there, overgrown...

Reducing Deforestation from California to Colombia and Beyond

This week marks the 16th Annual Meeting of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF Task Force), a unique network of states and provinces from 11 countries covering more...

America's Forests Depend on Private Landowners

More than 150 years ago, Frederick Billings returned to Vermont after making his fortune during the California Gold Rush where he had witnessed miners clearing forests, eroding hil...

The Spectacular Regrowth of New England’s Forests

The rebound of forests in the northeast U.S. is the “greatest forest recovery in the history of the world.” This is how it happened.

As African cities heat up, a new book argues trees are part of the solution

A newly released book documenting urban forestry efforts across Africa argues that trees and green spaces are no longer a luxury for African cities, but a critical response to clim...

Ranked: Europe’s Most Forested Countries

See which European countries have the most forest cover and explore why forest area continues to grow across much of the continent.

The honey bargain: How bees are helping forests stay standing 

There is a moment before dawn in the dry montane forests of Lambayeque, in northern Peru, when the air is still cool enough to sting and the palo santo trees stand dark against the...

Tree-based biopesticides can boost food security, protect the environment and strengthen Africa’s economy

More than a decade ago, my colleagues and I reviewed the status of botanical pesticides derived from trees and other plant species in sub-Saharan Africa. We found that regulatory b...

Commercial forests and biodiversity claims | Letters

Paul Brannen extols the benefits of commercial forestry, while Dr Andrew Cameron warns of Britain ‘offshoring’ its timbers supplies, and Jane Gifford calls on the Scottish governme...

LISTEN: The value of working forests

Are managed timberlands ‘biological deserts?’ The post LISTEN: The value of working forests appeared first on The Wildlife Society.

Can selective logging help the Congo Basin store more carbon?

The rainforests of the Congo Basin are the planet’s largest forested carbon sink: as these 3.3 million square kilometers (1.3 million square miles) of trees in Central Africa breat...

Why Agroforestry is key to India’s twin goals of carbon reduction and farmer income growth

With sustained policy support and private investment, agroforestry could become central to building a more resilient and future-ready agricultural system

How Brazil’s federal fiscal policy hinders Amazon Rainforest conservation (commentary)

The forests of the Brazilian Amazon are, by any measure, among the most important ecosystems on Earth. They absorb carbon on a planetary scale, regulate rainfall across South Ameri...