Tag: deforestation

Given the evidence, it is clear humans need to balance the production of food, forest commodities and other goods with the protection of tropical forests.

A government program to help poor, rural Indonesians through direct cash payments had the unexpected effect of reducing deforestation by 30 percent in participating villages.

At the cost of over $2,000 per acre—and that is the cheapest I could find—it isn’t cheap, totaling over $30 billion to replace what the Amazon lost this decade.

Due to the some of the fastest deforestation in the world, this once enormous ecosystem may soon be gone outside of protected areas.

A completely new approach to so-called development as part of far reaching systemic change is urgently needed.

"Global demand for meat is destroying the Amazon rainforest."

“At five years on, we’re losing the battle.”

When rain started to fall on the flames overtaking the area around the small Amazonian town of Lábrea, Brazil, Marcos Apurinã let...

There are a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil's space agency has said. Their smoke is visible from space and shrouded the...

Ethiopia has planted over 350 million trees as part of a national “green legacy” initiative to plant and grow 4 billion trees...