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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Religious and Indigenous leaders in Indonesia unite to protect forests
More than 250 religious leaders descended upon Jakarta in January pledging to prioritize protection of the world’s third largest tropical…
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The Papua Atlas: New tool tracks development on remote island, as-it-happens
The Papua region, which makes up the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea, has often been seen as…
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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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