Corporate carbon footprint pledges must be backed by transparent timelines
“Climate change is one of the biggest threats we face as a society,” Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider said in September…
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Q+A: The year deforestation was supposed to be chopped in half
As communities around the world hail glimpses of resurgent urban wildlife and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions related to…
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What happens when freshwater fish hook up with forests?
Sound land-use policies to conserve freshwater habitats in tropical forests can help maintain fish biodiversity, reduce the risk of food…
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Formalizing artisanal logging in Central Africa
Central Africa’s national and regional timber markets are booming. Across the region, rapid population growth, urbanization and economic development are…
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Terrain through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic: Blueprint for a healthy planet
Scientists have demonstrated that such diseases as the new SARS-COV2 coronavirus COVID-19 and Ebola can emerge due to ecosystem imbalances…
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COVID-19 pandemic: How nature steps in to refill ‘empty forests’ when animals disappear
“We must not let a forest full of trees fool us into believing that all is well.”Kent Redford’s cautionary statement…
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How tree growing can mitigate the environmental impact of displacement
When civil war broke out in the Central African Republic (CAR) in late 2012, hundreds of thousands of people fled…
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Domestic policies alone can’t tackle wood fuel challenges
This article was originally published in the print edition of the Zambia Daily Mail on 28 March 2020. Most of…
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Natural forest regeneration: A good choice for biodiversity
Forests are full of surprises.Parts of the Amazon, Panama’s Darien and many other places we think of as home to…
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Five (or six) solutions for saving the world’s forests and restoring landscapes
We’ve heard a lot about ambitious tree planting initiatives in recent months. Laudable as these may be – and we…
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Amazon rainforest could disappear within 50 years, scientists report
Large scale ecosystems the size of the Amazon forests could collapse within 50 years and the Caribbean coral reefs in…
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Has the FLEGT Action plan contributed to better forest governance?
I still remember the day, years ago, when the director general of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) “invited”…
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