While some progress has been made since these goals were established in 2017, it is uneven. Only seven of the 26 targets have been broadly met.
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Madagascar’s protected area forests have 2.5km buffer zone forests surrounding them that also need urgent protection.
How Brazil and Indonesia have cut down on deforestation.
A long-time leader of California’s climate efforts explains how governors from Brazil to Indonesia have become the leading edge in fighting climate change. Several are meeting this week in Brazil.
The SUPERB project, part of the EU’s Horizon programme, aims to restore thousands of hectares of forest landscape across Europe.
Redwoods grow in networks that house unique communities of plants and animals high in the air. They offer life lessons about adapting over time.
Permanently protecting large, mature forests is a faster and cheaper way to stabilize Earth’s climate than complex carbon capture and storage schemes, and more effective than planting new trees.
Rural people’s access to fuelwood isn’t determined by the availability of the wood, instead it’s controlled by power dynamics.
Yerba mate is a wildly popular South American tea with a growing global market. Can this ‘superfood’ save Paraguay’s tropical forests, too?
Experiments into the effectiveness of conservation can help us learn what works best.
Communities and indigenous people would like to conserve forests, nature and biodiversity. But their priority, like that of most people, is improving their own well-being and that of their children.
Many human-wildlife conflicts are rooted in struggles over land. Some countries, notably Mexico, have found ways to protect both nature and the rights of indigenous people and forest dwellers.
Combining new technologies, including Global Forest Watch, a Forest Monitoring App and Participatory 3D Modelling, brings out traditional knowledge of the elders.
John Muir, born on April 21, 1838, was one of America’s first great conservation advocates. His letters and diaries convey the emotions Muir felt in Yosemite Valley, his ‘sanctum sanctorum.’
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Professor of Conservation Science, Bangor University
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Conservation Director, Wildlife Ecologist and Microbiologist at the African Conservation Foundation. Lecturer and board member at the Institute of Biodiversity and Non-Profit Studies, University of Buea
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Adjunct professor, James Cook University
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Head of Special Collections, University Library, University of the Pacific
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University of British Columbia
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James Cook University
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Landscape Transition Scientist, CSIRO
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PhD Candidate in Development Practice, James Cook University
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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Brandeis University
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Lecturer in History, California Institute of Technology
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Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
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Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
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Professor, School of Communication, Northern Arizona University
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Professor in Forest genetics, European Forest Institute
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Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg