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The politics of peat and fire
On a recent visit to Riau, a province on Indonesia’s island of Sumatra, Indonesian President Joko Widodo surveyed the damage…
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Forests, Tenure, and Climate: Some key recent findings with respect to REDD+ and beyond REDD+
The original article can be read from here and is published by Rights and Resources In spite of widely-recognized challenges,…
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Scientists on Indonesia’s polluting haze
While the eyes of the world have been fixed in horror on the Amazonian forest fires, the rainforests of Indonesia…
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Rooting sustainability in the logging industry
Located on the bumpy road connecting run-down Bangoka International Airport to the city of Kisangani in Democratic Republic of Congo…
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‘Forestry is not fulfilling its promise to the rural poor’
According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), 250 million people living in and around tropical forests or savannahs…
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Halt tropical forest loss…our survival depends on it
Never before has forests received so much public attention. Between forest fires of unprecedented proportions in the Arctic and the…
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Collaborating for the Commons
As the environment changes around us, finding solutions to benefit the common good has never been more pressing. Enter multi-stakeholder…
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Now the IPCC knows it too, climate change can’t be solved without rights
Yesterday, the day before Indigenous Day, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included indigenous rights in its Special…
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How do you protect what’s ‘everywhere but nowhere?’
Yesterday Ethiopia began its ambitious 4 billion tree planting program. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, said the mega campaign will…
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Zoom in on Borneo ecology
The forests of Borneo are some of the most ecologically diverse in the world, home to thousands of unique species…
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Pineapples and peatlands
Sowing 10,000 pineapple plants is not everyone’s idea of a good time. But for Meri Andayani and her friends, the…
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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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