Forests News
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Protected: Indonesia: Collaboration supercharges restoration research
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In Ethiopia, building skills to gauge agroecological performance
Agroecology is an integrated approach that seeks to optimize the interactions between plants, animals, humans, and the environment – while…
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Vizimumba’s bamboo renaissance
“I have no forest,” lamented Chief Ndake of the Ndake Chiefdom in Eastern Zambia. Once lush with dense bamboo groves,…
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Agroforestry rises as a smallholder-powered climate solution
Across Africa and Asia, new incentive programmes and digital tools are laying the ground for the large-scale deployment of trees…
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“People’s lives are very complex”: Why conditional payments aren’t enough to protect and restore forests
If you were around in the ‘90s, you might remember those ‘sponsor a child’ ads that popped up a lot…
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“We will protect them ourselves”: Yangambi’s young conservation champions
Thirteen-year-old Olive Basekawike-Nyota, a student from Weko Village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s Yangambi Engagement Landscape (YEL),…
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There’s a rainbow in the clouds of climate change – if we act now
Another year, another record. Recent news headlines seem to support the adage that records are made to be broken. Yet…
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Gender-based participation spurs pilot biochar industry in eastern India
Women cooking at home in Balangir and Nuapada districts in eastern India’s Odisha State rely heavily on firewood-fed mud chulhas…
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The school that trees built
Until recently, the Bilaka School Complex, in the Yangambi Engagement Landscape (YEL) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s Tshopo…
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In DRC, titling industrial loggers shows no impact on deforestation
In 2021, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced plans to lift a 20-year ban on industrial…
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“What mattered more to decide our destinies was not our sex but our gender”
In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in mid-November 2023, a group of professionals – staff from the Center for International Forestry Research…
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Beyond the ‘bubble tower paradox’: How a jurisdictional approach can make commodities more sustainable
As countries around the world work out how to meet international climate and biodiversity targets, the lens is shifting from…
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Wildmeat consumption needs new approach from forest to fork, experts say
The consumption of wildmeat in urban areas should be reduced in Central Africa to prevent the depletion of forest animal…
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Indonesia: Mangrove forests are ‘food baskets’ for coastal communities
When the tide is in, the salty understorey of a mangrove forest glitters with life. Fish dart through the labyrinthine…
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