Forests News
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Billion-dollar question: How much will it take to protect the trees?
JUMA RESERVE, Brazil _ Would US$33 a month do? That is the amount a project in the Amazon pays each…
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Looking South for climate change expertise to save rainforests
SAO PAOLO, Brazil _ Home to the largest rainforest in the world, Brazil is keen to share its REDD+ experiences…
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Q&A with Sven Wunder on the state of REDD+ in South America
In this interview, Sven Wunder, Principal Scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and head of CIFOR’s Brazil…
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‘Selling the oxygen to the gringos’: Attitudes change toward REDD+
SAO PAOLO, Brazil _ Public support is growing in Brazil for a global climate change scheme that could see the…
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Getting the laws in place in Brazil to move forward with REDD+
SAO PAOLO, Brazil _ Virgilio Viana, one of Brazil’s leading movers and shakers on climate change and rainforests, said he…
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Putting the squeeze: Brazil cuts off credit to illegal loggers
MATO GROSSO, Brazil _ With fines for illegal deforestation rarely paid, Brazil is using a novel approach to save the…
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Amazon ranchers use one hectare per cow to feed growing global appetite for meat
MATO GROSSO, Brazil _ Though the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has dropped, about 6,000 square kilometers is still…
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Protecting forests, fighting climate change: Searching for lessons in the Amazon
THE AMAZON, Brazil _ Looking down from a tiny plane above the Amazon, a blanket of patchy green stretches to…
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Commercial logging drives appetite for Africa’s wildlife
NAIROBI, Kenya (June 15, 2011) _ Commercial logging in countries of the Congo Basin, one of the world’s few remaining…
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Tanzania’s burning question: Can REDD succeed amid a charcoal addiction?
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (15 June, 2011)_Driving along a narrow country road leading towards the Rubeho mountains in Central Tanzania’s…
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Will the real owner please stand up: Land tenure confusion threatens REDD+ in Brazil
MATO GROSSO, Brazil _ A lack of progress in fixing a murky system of land ownership and land-use rules in…
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Kenyans use barcodes to gather evidence to combat trade in illegal bushmeat
NAIROBI, Kenya (14 June, 2011)_For generations the people of East Africa lived among wild animals but did not depend on…
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Consensus to Bushmeat Conundrum Lies Somewhere Near the Fuzzy Middle
NAIROBI, Kenya (10 June, 2011)_Finding consensus to one of the greatest threats to biodiversity—the exploitation of wild animals for food—has…
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Going nuts: how price increases and property rights insecurity may lead to Brazil nut theft
BOGOR, Indonesia (9 June, 2011)_The thick brown opened fruit shells litter the forest floor. A Bolivian man wearily bends downs…
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Adaptation – just a fancy new name?
BOGOR, Indonesia (7 June, 2011)_In the past, I used to confront the question of “what do you do?” with great…
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