Felled trees are seen in Fairy Creek logging area near Port Renfrew, B.C. in Oct. 2021.
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Orders to not investigate potential government wrongdoing sets an alarming precedent for the future of B.C. forestry.
Land clearing in Queensland.
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Three years ago, Australia pledged to end deforestation by decade’s end. But land clearing continues due to legal exemptions and a lack of enforcement
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during the launch ceremony of the Amazon Regional Initiative against Illicit Nature Finance, on July 27 in Belém.
‘Forest mafia’ are fueling ‘narco-deforestation’ through illegal land acquisition, mineral extraction, and poaching.
The scene of a landslide in the Gofa region of southern Ethiopia in July 2024.
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Half of Ethiopia’s territory is prone to medium to very high landslide risk.
Baltimore orioles breed in eastern and central North America, then migrate south to wintering grounds in Florida, the Caribbean and Central America.
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Central America’s forests are critically important habitat for many forest birds, including endangered species. Narco-traffickers are cutting down trees, leaving birds with nowhere to go.
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To reduce deforestation and boost biodiversity to help address climate change, returning lands to Indigenous communities is crucial and effective.
Fynbos and king proteas, indigenous to South Africa.
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More than 700 million hectares of land in Africa has been degraded by human activity. Everyone can get involved in restoring the ecology.
Harvesting avocados in Uruapan, in the Mexican state of Michoacan.
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Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture.
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Deforestation can make landslides more likely. But by itself, replanting trees isn’t enough to remove the risk.
An archaeologist takes bog samples in Germany for analysis of past civilizations and what they cultivated.
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Understanding how humans came to exert such enormous pressure on Earth’s ecosystems can inform more sustainable ways of living.
Forest areas are in sharp decline in many parts of Ghana.
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Ghana is losing forests because of cocoa farming, firewood harvesting, mining and logging.
The collaboration between communities and scientists aims to restore baobab forests in Madagascar to this natural state.
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In Madagascar, communities and scientists are growing tens of thousands of baobab seedlings to restore the 1,000-year-old forests.
People walk through floodwater in one of Kenya’s informal settlements after heavy rains in Nairobi.
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There’s been an increase in the amount of runoff generated from rainfall as land is altered by settlement and deforestation.
Rhett Butler
What harm can a road do? Plenty. Once built, illegal roads let loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers into the jungle, and the felling begins.
The Cross River National Park, Oban biosphere, is one of the few forest reserves remaining in Nigeria.
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Nigeria’s forest resources have dwindled and are in danger of disappearing in a few decades if nothing is done to save them.
Swedish old-growth forest.
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Research suggests these forests could disappear by the 2070s.
Rainforest jungle in Borneo, Malaysia, is destroyed to make way for oil palm plantations.
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A recently published report sheds light on how 350 big companies and 150 financial institutions are falling behind with goals to halt and reverse deforestation.
Cattle walk along an illegally deforested area in an extractive reserve near Jaci-Parana, Rondonia state, Brazil. Deforestation is a global problem and while it has varied causes the trade in illegal timber is a major factor.
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Effective use of genomic identification could revolutionize the control of the illegal timber trade.
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Green anacondas are the world’s heaviest snakes, and among the longest. it’s remarkable this hidden species has slipped under the radar until now.
El muriqui del sur, endémico de Brasil, está en peligro de extinción.
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Trees in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest depend heavily on primates for their survival, but agriculture and deforestation are threatening them both.