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Scientists pinpoint activities driving deforestation and urge countries to take action at Doha
DOHA, Qatar (27 November 2012)_For the first time scientists have assessed the main activities driving deforestation and forest degradation at…
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VIDEO: Why it’s time to protect biodiversity – nature’s safety net
BOGOR, Indonesia (5 October, 2012)_Biodiversity provides a safety net for humans and wildlife but climate change is having an increasingly…
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Açaí: could the wonder fruit also be wonderful for forests?
SEOUL, South Korea (12 September, 2012)_The increased cultivation of açaí — the purple fruit that dangles from palms in the…
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Are conservation projects succeeding in the Lower Mekong Basin?
JEJU, South Korea (10 September, 2012)_ For thousands of years, the people living on the banks of the Mekong river…
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Just add trees: How greening concrete jungles will help us adapt to a warming world
JEJU, South Korea (10 September, 2012)_People crowd together under umbrellas at Ogbette market in the Nigerian city of Enugu in…
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Forests fare poorly in outcomes of Rio+20, say CIFOR scientists
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (26 June, 2012)_Forests have been largely ignored or ambiguously mentioned in the Rio+20 outcome document, yet…
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Speaking out on sustainable development: Rio+20 in quotes
RIO DE JANEIRO (22 June, 2012)_Many have criticised the Rio+20 summit as a vague talkfest with a outcome document that…
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One of Indonesia’s top REDD+ experts discusses logging moratorium progress
BOGOR, Indonesia (25 May 2012)_Indonesia’s moratorium on new logging concessions has helped to improve forest governance and seal an…
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Rio+20 Dialogues: forest peoples’ rights, how can they be recognised and secured?
BOGOR, Indonesia (24 May, 2012)_Pervasive tenure insecurity is limiting the implementation of sustainable development policy in many countries, with struggles…
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Rio+20 Dialogues: Water scarcity under a changing climate, can forests help win the battle?
BOGOR, Indonesia (15 May, 2012)_ Despite recent research that has closely linked climate change and water scarcity with a rapidly…
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Rio+20 Dialogues: Are we felling forests to fuel our future?
Forests are an important source of energy for rural and urban households around the world. And many believe that…
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Rio+20 Dialogues: How will we fight world hunger without forests?
Converting forest to agricultural land does not necessarily lead to increases in food production, so how do we make sure…
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The Letter of Intent that prompted a tectonic shift in the dialogue about Indonesia’s forests: An interview with CIFOR’s DG
BOGOR, Indonesia (16 April, 2012)_The Letter of Intent between Indonesia and Norway has been “the single most significant game changer”…
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Brazil forges forward on path to sustainable forest development
LIMA, Peru (3 April, 2012)_Brazil is forging forward towards its sustainable forest development goal, with many ministers and scientists hailing…
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Forests becoming ‘human’s garden’, experts worried whether any truly wild places left
LONDON, United Kingdom (28 March, 2012)_Scientists at the Planet under Pressure conference in London have warned of humankind’s entrance into…
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