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What are Bhutan’s sacred forests worth?
In the Kingdom of Bhutan, a mountainous country nestled between India and Tibet, you can’t just wander into the forest…
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Putting people at the heart of peatland conservation efforts in Borneo
Some five hours from Palangkaraya, the capital of the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, lies…
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Sustainable wildlife management key as Guyana faces rapid economic change
If you drive along a rural road in Guyana’s southern Rupununi region at night, your headlights are likely to pick…
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Planning a sustainable future for Rupununi fisheries in Guyana
The vast savannah in Guyana’s southern Rupununi region has varying moods. From April through August, the rainy season, it turns…
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Rupununi region in Guyana rides ecotourism wave
Tourism in Guyana’s southern Rupununi region has long been a small business aimed at foreign visitors. But growing demand for…
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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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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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DRC landscape restoration is electrifying!
For the 45 million people living in rural Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) there are few livelihood opportunities beyond…
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What the world can learn from West Africa’s unheard
In the forested parklands in northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso lie diverse mosaics of cultivated fields mixed with useful…
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International Women’s Day: Indigenous women off the charts
All maps tell a story – a story about our relationship to the land. In 2015, researchers from the Center…
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Tree love this Valentine’s Day
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Forests News asked staff at Center for International Forestry Research Center (CIFOR) about their true love.…
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Barking up the same trees
The forested mountains of East Africa deserve their ‘water towers’ moniker. Their springs and streams feed a number of major…
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Bioenergy: A solution to three problems?
Indonesia’s riddle of how to balance environmental responsibility with its rapid development – and the energy and manpower needed to…
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In Solomon Islands, the gendered effects of corporate logging
Sicolastika Okapisi cried as she watched machines raze the mangroves near her village of Mararo to the ground. These mangroves…
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Steady as Murdiyarso goes
On 28 June 2004, Indonesia’s environment minister Nabiel Makarim opened the Indonesian parliament (DPR) public hearing by holding up a…
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