Native Brazilians are among the Amazon’s most effective defenders against logging and mining, because they’re fighting not just for the environment but for their people’s very survival.
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Trees in tropical forests are more than carbon sponges – they’re cultural artefacts.
Village Forests under the Social forestry Scheme can not only reduce poverty but also deforestation, study finds.
Researchers found that palm oil plantations up to five years old were more harmful to the climate than already established ones.
Soil and water conservation projects can create fertile farmlands and change migration patterns linked to land degradation in Burkina Faso.
Building connections and grassroots efforts will sustain conservation over the long term.
New research shows that slowing deforestation is the most essential step for saving Madagascar’s lemurs, and can help protect them against the longer-term threat of climate change.
About 24,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest have been deforested over the last decade.
Government agencies have detailed plans for responding to disasters, like the Dec. 10-11, 2021 tornados. But one issue doesn’t get enough attention: cleaning up the mess left behind.
Without care, reforestation projects can damage ecosystems and be useless as carbon stores. Here’s how to go about it the right way.
Instead of boycotting palm oil, source it from pastureland and not recently logged forests.
Politicians and the media often stoke tensions between the city and the country. Nowhere is this more common than on the issue of land clearing – and the consequences can be tragic.
Yerba mate is a wildly popular South American tea with a growing global market. Can this ‘superfood’ save Paraguay’s tropical forests, too?
Indigenous Marind in West Papua consider the forest and its plants and animals as kin. These culturally valued multispecies relations, however, are being disrupted by oil palm development projects.
In the absence of animals to help larger trees reproduce, forests are suffering.
The cleared land of Paraguay’s Chaco forest produces everyday products like charcoal and leather that are sold abroad to consumers who may never know the unsavory origins of their purchases.
California’s new plan to fight global climate change is innovative. But it raises tricky ethical questions with no easy answers.
Reversing the damage from fires in Brazil’s rainforest is not as simple as allowing trees to grow back. Decades of research shows how fires degrade their long-term health and utility.
Himalayan villages are growing food in the forests, a traditional model that can fight both land clearing and world hunger.
There are studies showing that farmers can have economic benefits from palm oil. However, they can also be impoverished by the commodity.
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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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Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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