Forests News
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Why tropical dry forests are collapsing: The forces driving a silent crisis
*This article is the second and final part of a two-part series on tropical dry forests. Part 1 explored what…
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Tropical dry forests: The vanishing biome sustaining life
*This is the first in a two-part series exploring the importance of tropical dry forests. In global conservation debates, tropical dry…
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“We’re here to make things happen”: Agroecology leaders gather in Vietnam
What happens when farmers, researchers and policymakers from across the planet come together not just to discuss agroecological transitions, but…
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Heroes and hypocrites: Peer punishment and fair forest use
Tropical forests hold many valuable resources—timber, fuelwood, bushmeat—that are considered “common-pool” goods. They are finite, shared by all, owned by…
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Will sustainable management keep a forest dominated by palms — and Amazon traditions — alive?
This article is translated and adapted from the original Spanish version, published on Los Bosques. At dawn in September, the…
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Not all carbon credits are created equal
Carbon credits—intended to represent greenhouse gas reductions or removals—have become a prominent tool in the global response to the climate…
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Speaking for Sumbiripa
It matters what we call things. A name anchors a story in language, time and context. Across Papua New Guinea…
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Old haunts, new hikers on Papua New Guinea’s Ghost Mountain Trail
Papua New Guinea’s Kokoda Trail, stretching from Port Moresby in the south to the village of Kokoda in the north,…
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Defining ‘sustainable use’ of wildlife in West and Central Africa: is it possible?
Forests News sat down with Charles Emogor, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge and the Center for International…
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Faith and science align on Africa climate resilience at Vatican-led summit
As the early morning sun lit the green hills around Nairobi on the cusp of July, a quiet urgency gripped…
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Finding and making history in a Papua New Guinea cloud forest
Last year, Australian adventurer and writer Peter Gamgee and a team of local guides braved sodden boots, machete-sliced trails and…
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10 key themes Brazil is placing at the core of the COP30 agenda
Read this article in Spanish. As Brazil prepares to host COP30 in Belém this November, the country is laying out…
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The serious game of agroecological transition
Playing games might seem a strange, perhaps even trivial, activity for a high-level international dialogue. But on 17 July 2025,…
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Great Green Wall: Five lessons on restoring land and peace
Land degradation is both a cause and consequence of conflict, fuelling a vicious cycle that renders societies, economies and ecosystems…
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Building restoration skills from the ground up: Tree nursery training takes root in Kenya
Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. That’s why the Center for International…
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