Forests News
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Keeping the peace in a national park buffer zone
Part III of VII-part series: WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM WEST AFRICA’S UNHEARD Arba Sondé, Tamsé, Department of…
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Species extinction, climate change research gets radical, and replanting a 2 million tree rainforest
In Forests News last week: Losing farmland and forest to a national park From Burkina Faso, Forests News brings you…
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Losing farmland and forest to a national park
Part II of VII-part series: WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM WEST AFRICA’S UNHEARD Oumarou Zoundi, Koakin, Department of…
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Collective land rights don’t equal women’s rights
When it comes to women’s tenure rights, even laws that recognize communal and collective land tenure systems may not be…
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Life on earth threatened as we know it, indigenous women lead ‘rights fight’ and baby orangutan rescue mission
In Forests News last week: What the world can learn from West Africa’s unheard In the forested parklands of Ghana…
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What the world can learn from West Africa’s unheard
In the forested parklands in northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso lie diverse mosaics of cultivated fields mixed with useful…
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24 hours for more sustainable todays and tomorrows
From sustainable landscape restoration that mitigates climate change, to tenure security and innovative financing tools, to climate-smart lifestyle changes, the…
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World deforestation, biodiversity crisis, Cyclone Kenneth and a peckish 83 year old protestor
In Forests News last week: Earth Day: Can Sumatran elephants and people coexist? This multimedia story equipped with beautiful shots…
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Collaborative monitoring from the get-go
Imagine you’re a forester spearheading a restoration project. Let’s say it covers multiple, separate sites in diverse biomes—a rainforest, arid…
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Earth from Space, banks back environment, and can Notre Dame inspire A Global Deal for Nature?
Last week in Forests News: The future of social forestry in Indonesia How to propel community forest management by 750%…
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EARTH DAY: Can Sumatran elephants and people coexist?
Palembang, Indonesia – Present day South Sumatra looks a lot different from its heyday as seat of the powerful Srivijaya…
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The future of social forestry in Indonesia
In Kalibiru, a national park in the Menoreh mountains to the west of Yogyakarta, tourists scale precarious-looking ladders up timber…
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What Peru’s government officials think of collective titling
To legally obtain title to their community lands, indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon must navigate a maze of legal…
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Paris Agreement disagreement; landscape restoration “overlooked,” misinterpreted, blocked
In Forests News last week: New online platform tackles agency duplication in the Congo Basin Developers aim to harmonize conservation…
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New online platform tackles agency duplication in the Congo Basin
Conservation of the Congo Basin forests is a critical, but complex undertaking. This massive tropical forest block, the world’s second…
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