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Champion of women’s right to manage land and forests wins top environment prize
A veteran Cameroonian activist working to preserve her country’s forests, and improve the lives of people who depend on them, is the latest winner...
Greenpeace Africa reacts to scientific report on wildfires projecting an infernal 21st century
A UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report projects a 50 per cent global increase in wildfires by 2100. Greenpeace Africa is calling on governments to...
World Heritage forests releasing more carbon than they absorb
Forests in at least ten World Heritage sites have become net sources of carbon, due to pressure from human activity and climate change, according...
African Union urged to address the threat of Congo forest logging driving extreme weather
Industrial logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) may severely disturb rainfall patterns across sub-Saharan Africa and bring about more extreme weather, including...
Bringing “the people” back in: Forest Resources Conservation with Dr. Apichart Pattaratuma
With a lifetime dedicated to forest conservation, Dr. Apichart Pattaratuma reflected back on his career and what forest management means to Thailand. In the...
The urgent need to restore Africa’s degraded landscape
The first-ever stocktake of Africa’s forests and landscapes, which was released on Wednesday finds slow progress in repairing Africa’s degraded lands and urges ramped...
More Than 2.5 Billion Trees to be Conserved, Restored, and Grown by 2030
Companies from across sectors are working to support healthy and resilient forests through the World Economic Forum’s 1t.org trillion tree platform. With the launch...
Rising demand for agricultural products adds to competing pressures on tropical forest landscapes
Annual consumption of food and agriculture products rose by 48% between 2001 and 2018 – more than twice the rate of increase in human...
Forest restoration is key to prevent the multiplication of wildfires and strengthen climate action
August is wildfire season in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Many areas in the UNECE region, including North America, Siberia, and Mediterranean countries...
Semblance between China’s Green Wall & Pakistan’s 10 Billion Tree Tsunami
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."― Warren Buffett
Recent years have witnessed the announcement and implementation...