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Ghana is losing forests because of cocoa farming, firewood harvesting, mining and logging.
We argue for an orderly transition from ‘timber mining’ to managed forestry in the tropics. Here’s a five-step plan to improve forest fates, with benefits for the climate, biodiversity and people.
A review of Australia’s illegal logging laws tests the Morrison government’s commitment to halting global forest loss.
They overlook a vast body of evidence that crown fire – the most extreme type of fire behaviour in which tree canopies burn - is more likely in logged native forests.
Our research is deeply concerning because it signals there are no quick fixes to the ongoing fire crisis afflicting Australia, which is being driven by relentless climate change.
Debating whether climate change or forest management has caused the devastating wildfires in California, Washington and Oregon is a false choice.
These trees are too important to be destroyed in the name of the forestry industry. This is why my husband Steve Pearce and I climb, explore and photograph them.
It’s a stunning win for a small community group that relied on crowd funding to cover legal costs.
Researchers have uncovered what appears to be widespread logging of steep slopes in Victoria, which has the potential to damage critical water supplies.
The undermining of environmental science, and the creation of lies and bribes to distort public policymaking, is as old as industries that know their products do harm, but lie to keep them in use.
Top contributors
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Director Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics, University of Sydney
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Researcher, Department of Agroforestry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
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Research Associate, University of Tasmania
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Research Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Research Associate, University of New South Wales, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin University
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Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Molecular and Life Sciences and ARC Centre for Mine Site Restoration., Curtin University
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Assistant Professor of Forestry, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon