DRC
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Can DRC’s community forests lift people out of poverty?
In the quest to reduce poverty, community forestry is an attractive endeavor. So much so that multiple countries with tropical…
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EU lands palm oil blow, student climate strikes, air pollution worse than smoking
In Forests News last week: Palm oil’s complex land conflicts Oil palm plantations are encroaching into state owned forest areas…
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Making connections: New funding opens dialogue on landscape approach efforts
Over the past six years, conversations on sustainable forest management activities focused on transforming the way the international community addresses…
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From research to action to protect the Congo Basin forests
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a country central to the work of the Center for International Forestry…
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Breaking new ground for sustainable architecture in Central Africa
All over Central Africa, it is a common sight to see worn-down buildings that appear to have been through decades…
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Rights in the DRC: Whose rights matter?
“We need change,” says Dorothée Lisenga, indigenous delegate at a Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) workshop on protecting indigenous…
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Rights in the DRC: What’s getting in the way?
At the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, the Forest Principles sent a clear message to governments: to preserve forests better,…
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Ebola returns in area scientists predicted ‘highly favorable’ for outbreak
Ebola, the deadly hemorrhagic virus that can kill up to 90 percent of those it infects, has made a recent…
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Lera Miles of UN Environment: ‘There’s much more peatland there than anyone had ever anticipated’
Will the recent discovery of peat in the Congo Basin be a boon or a liability for global climate change…
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Preserving precious peat in the Congo Basin
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has long been known for the biodiversity and carbon storage capacity of its vast…
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