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Every year, as a direct result of deforestation for palm oil, approximately 6,000 orangutans are killed. Not only is the ingredient (which is common in household products) devastating animals’ natural habitats, it is polluting the environment....
Tanzania will be going ahead with a $3 billion logging project in the middle of the Selous Game Reserve – a Unesco World Heritage Site, and one of the most iconic wildlife areas in...
Pakistan hit its billion tree goal in August 2017 – months ahead of schedule. Now, the hills of the country’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are alive with newly planted saplings. The massive reforestation project...
Forests are very vital for life, home to millions of animal and tree species, protect the soil from erosion, produce oxygen, store carbon dioxide, and help control the climate. Forests are also vital for...
If Italy’s fashion capital has a predominant colour, it is grey – not only because of the blocks of neoclassical stone buildings for which the city is celebrated, but also due to its often-grey sky,...
Forests are the most powerful and efficient carbon-capture system on the planet The latest IPCC report does not mince words about the state of our planet: we must act now to achieve global change at a...
An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up. The plan, which saw a juice...
Nearly 8,000 square kms are lost in this year to July amid alarm new president Jair Bolsonaro will make situation worse. Brazil has released its worst annual deforestation figures in a decade amid fears that the...
African leaders met at a summit to discuss land restoration across the continent on Nov. 13, ahead of the U.N. Biodiversity Conference in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt. Representatives from several African countries shared their countries’ pledges...
UK is pushing for a deal that would boost imports linked to deforestation despite EU moves to ban unsustainable palm oil, diplomatic papers reveal. The UK is defying EU institutions to push for a...
Yopher Whites spends a lot of time walking in—and thinking about—the forest, and how quickly we’re losing it. So much so that he’s gotten a black eye from being smacked by flying tree branches. But...
Along with his pledge to sell off their rainforest home to agribusiness and mining, Bolsonaro has said openly “minorities will have to adapt … or simply disappear”. Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, campaigned on a...
A tiger has been killed by angry villagers in northern India, who ran it over with a tractor and beat it to death after it killed a man, officials said Monday. The female tiger...
Heavy rain and gales lashing parts of Italy have killed at least 17 people and razed thousands of hectares of forest, destroying 14 million trees. Areas across the country have been affected by the storms this week, which created...
China is rapidly and illegally gobbling up the world’s second largest rainforest, to fuel America’s appetite for cheap furniture. The second largest rainforest in the world, in Central Africa’s Congo Basin, is disappearing at...
Africa’s tropical forests, which include the Congo Basin, are under constant threat. Deutsche Welle speaks to Proforest’s Abraham Baffoe on what stands to be lost and what needs to be done to tackle deforestation....