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Why the EU must stand firm on its plan to help protect the world’s forests (commentary)

Sam Lawson 19 Sep 2024

Rainforest in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Despite landmark law, Europe faces tough test to end role in global forest loss (commentary)

Sam Lawson 15 May 2023

Timber in Pará state and other parts of the Brazilian Amazon can bypass regulatory permits, allowing illegal wood to be sold domestically and internationally. Federal environmental agencies play an essential role in preventing this from happening, experts say.

If the US aspires to climate leadership, it must break its addiction to the products driving forest destruction (commentary)

Sam Lawson 7 Nov 2022

Fate of Indonesian rainforest the size of Belgium hangs in the balance (commentary)

Sam Lawson 17 Mar 2022

Relying on green labels to address our thirst for the products of deforestation would be a disaster (commentary)

Sam Lawson 8 Nov 2021

Documentation of landcover and oil palm plantation development in PT Internusa Jaya Sejahtera (PT IJS), part of the Central Cipta Murdaya group, in April 2018. Photo credit: © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace

As illegal forest conversion for industrial ag worsens, this moment is pivotal (commentary)

Sam Lawson 20 May 2021

To regulate or not to regulate? EU climate commitments face key test over global deforestation (commentary)

Sam Lawson 26 Jul 2019

EU action plan on tropical deforestation must be beefed up, or it will fail (commentary)

Sam Lawson 8 Feb 2019

Why helping civil society investigate illegal timber is about much more than protecting forests and forest peoples [commentary]

Sam Lawson 25 Jul 2016

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

Rinchin Jomaba. Chef, Damu's Kitchen.How a remote diner in India is fueling a culinary and ecological revival

Bats may comprise at least 40% of the overall mammal diversity in Rwanda. Image courtesy of Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association – RWCA.

Saiga herd during a calving period. Image by Albert Salemgareyev and courtesy of the Association for the Conservation Biodiversity of Kazakhstan/Vera Voronova.

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