But with chimps now endangered, we risk losing their forest-rebuilding abilities.
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In general, the larger the tree, the more carbon it stores.
A new study estimates that $22 billion to $30 billion dollars per year needs to be spent to maintain forests and reduce the likelihood of a pathogen jumping from wildlife to humans.
The coconut – an icon of unspoiled tropical idylls – causes more environmental harm than many people realise.
Zimbabwe’s policy makers believe that deforestation is a threat to the economy, but citizens believe environmental degradation is an outcome of the country’s dire political and economic situation.
Jair Bolsonaro’s government has put forward laws that could put Indigenous land into the hands of mining, agricultural and timber businesses.
Mining strips nitrogen from the soil and means the forest struggles to grow back even after mines are abandoned.
Forests must improve communities’ livelihoods to rise as a sustainable management solution
Yellow fever, malaria and Ebola all spilled over from animals to humans at the edges of tropical forests. The new coronavirus is the latest zoonosis.
New findings show how changes in land use have complex effects on animal and plant species.
By identifying the roots of global ills such as climate change and biodiversity, there’s an opportunity for coordinated action as countries lay new pathways for a post-COVID world.
Precautions must be taken to realise the full advantage of the benefits associated with trees.
A repeat of 2019’s disastrous fire season is possible in 2020, and it would have dire consequences.
The lockdown may be a greater worry than the disease itself.
There are telling parallels between the current pandemic and those that decimated indigenous populations in the post-Columbian era in the Amazon.
Before you stock the pantry with chocolate this Easter, think twice about whether it’s ethically produced.
Mennonites settled in Paraguay’s arid Chaco forest a century ago, fleeing religious persecution. Their agricultural success is now driving deforestation, social change and rapid development.
A new study finds 70% of Amazonian dung beetles were killed by the severe fire and droughts of 2015 to 2016. By spreading seeds and poop, dung beetles fertilize forests and aid regrowth of vegetation.
COVID-19 is not the first – nor likely the last – to emerge from the two continents.
Insects are essential to the functioning of land and freshwater ecosystems but species populations are being lost at a rapid rate globally.
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, University of Cambridge
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Honorary Associate Professor, The Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Reader in Ecology and Conservation Biology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Principal Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg
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Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Professor of Geography, University of Florida