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As pollinators, bats play key role in large-scale durian production in Indonesia
As the main pollinators of the stinky but popular durian fruit, bats make a significant contribution to the local economy…
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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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Trees and water: Don’t underestimate the connection
Trees have extraordinary powers. They provide shade, cool the local climate, draw carbon dioxide from the air, and can repair…
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Sustainability can be an advantage for Indonesia
Indonesia – The long-awaited rains have finally arrived in parts of Indonesia devastated by forest and peatland fires, bringing relief…
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Esther Mwangi, researcher on gender and forest property rights, dies at 53
Esther Mwangi, an environmentalist, public policy expert, scholar and mentor whose research explored gender and land-rights inequities in relation to…
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Why Blue Carbon needs to be on the climate agenda
Carbon stored in mangroves and wetlands (known as blue carbon) is playing an increasingly prominent role in discussions about the…
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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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Keeping wild meat on the table
When Denkel Ilipi was 10 years old, his grandfather took him to the forest and to the river, teaching him…
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The race to save rosewood
Long hidden in the shadows of informal trade, an African tree species known locally as mukula is now under an…
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Scientists on Indonesia’s polluting haze
While the eyes of the world have been fixed in horror on the Amazonian forest fires, the rainforests of Indonesia…
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‘Forestry is not fulfilling its promise to the rural poor’
According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), 250 million people living in and around tropical forests or savannahs…
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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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New tool shows decline in oil-palm related deforestation in Borneo
In a welcome “good news” story for the world’s carbon stocks and biodiversity, the felling of old-growth forest for oil…
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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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