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Pooling knowledge in tropical landscapes key to resilience
The active involvement of everyone living and working in a tropical landscape – from local communities and governments to the…
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Getting Ethiopia REDD+ ready
Forest protection is not usually a huge money spinner. Logging, mining, clearing forests for grazing, or building a new city…
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Time to get serious about evaluating REDD+ impacts
In September, global experts, world leaders and top U.N. officials gathered in New York to double down on efforts to…
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Getting real about restoring the Earth at GLF New York
Autumn Peltier has taken the weight of the world’s water on her shoulders. As Chief Water Commissioner for the Anishnawbek…
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Leaders of the future: Shaking up old school ideas on learning about tropical forestry
For young people in sub-Saharan Africa, studying in Europe or the United States is an aspiration within reach of only…
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Number crunching: Making sense of REDD+ and results-based payments
BONN, Germany (CIFOR) – Making the conservation of tropical forest ecosystems financially attractive for communities and smallholder farmers is critical…
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Cull! Say scientists. Crisis! Say journalists. Plus news from the Wood Wide Web
In Forests News last week: Keeping the peace in a national park buffer zone When access to the Kaboré Tambi…
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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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Tension and transformation in the patriarchy
When Jackline Cheplang’at began teaching fellow community members about gender and conservation issues in Kenya’s traditionally patriarchal Rift Valley region,…
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Citizen science in Kenya’s Rift Valley
Participation is widely seen as a cornerstone of sustainable resource management, and it’s a pillar of Kenya’s 2010 constitution, too.…
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What do trees do when we are not looking?
Getting to the root of the dos, whys and workings of trees can be an obsession for forest researchers. And…
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Global climate action is nothing without local backing
Global climate negotiations take place on the international stage, bolstered by countries’ national policies. But preventing greenhouse gas emissions from…
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Your top 6 stories of 2018
In 2018, Forests News covered some of the year’s most controversial environmental issues, with science at the heart of our…
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Review of large-scale tree plantations suggests need to consider socioeconomic impacts
A systematic review of the available literature has found that large-scale tree plantations require more consideration of the socioeconomic impacts…
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