FORESTS NEWS
BETA
-
10 views on the future of REDD+
It’s been a long and rocky road for the climate change mitigation scheme known as REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from…
10 min read -
Catching the ‘big fish’: How banks can stop environmental crime in Indonesia
It was the US$100 million in his bank account that gave him away. There was no legitimate reason why Labora…
6 min read -
Palmed off: Women lose in West Kalimantan oil palm boom
BOGOR, Indonesia—Ibu Lila climbs up and down the hills between the rows of oil palms, carrying 18 kilograms of fertilizer…
6 min read -
That tricky gender thing: Lessons from Amazonia
There are enormous gaps in our knowledge about how gender relations shape the lives of people living in the forests…
6 min read -
Money buys happiness? New study says think again about those assumptions
Conventional wisdom has long held that for people who have the least, money matters much more than it does for…
6 min read -
It’s a forest, not a ‘museum’: What sustainable development means in the tropics
BOGOR, Indonesia—A tropical forest: A habitat for wildlife, untouched by humans? Or trees ripe to be cleared for profit? Or…
6 min read -
For sharing REDD+ benefits in Peru, consensus more important than cash
LIMA, Peru—For REDD+ benefit-sharing arrangements to function well, their design must be consultative and seen as legitimate by communities on…
4 min read -
Cheap drones could revolutionize forest monitoring, but turbulence ahead
LIMA, Peru—Sending small unmanned drones to fly over tropical forests has great potential for enhancing community-based forest monitoring—and in measuring…
6 min read -
Voices of REDD+: in a vast Amazonian district, coalitions and carrots bring hard-won successes
LIMA, Peru—In one of the largest municipalities in the world, São Félix do Xingu (SFX) in Brazil’s Pará state, the…
3 min read -
Voices of REDD+: Whose land is it, anyway? Tenure snags progress in Brazil
LIMA, Peru—Unclear land tenure and political instability are the biggest challenges faced by a REDD+ initiative in Brazil’s Amapá state,…
3 min read