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Community rights: A key to conservation in Central America

Sandra Cuffe 9 Dec 2016

Can fig trees regrow lost rainforests?

Erik Hoffner 26 Nov 2016
A pile of illegally cut timber discovered by a patrol group in Tanzania. Photo by Sophie Tremblay

Are conservation policies a driver of deforestation in Tanzania?

Jens Friis Lund/Jevgeniy Bluwstein/Mathew Bukhi Mabele/Andreas Scheba/Eliezeri Sungusia 14 Nov 2016
A coffee cup with beans. Photo by Lotus Head/Wikimedia Commons

This is why your coffee beans matter to the planet

Genevieve Belmaker 10 Nov 2016
Coffea Arabica plant. Photo by Forest and Kim Star/Wikimedia Commons

Ethiopia’s vulnerable tropical forests are key to securing future of wild coffee

Fiona Hesselden at the University of Huddersfield 10 Oct 2016

‘We are revolutionaries’: Villagers fight to protect Myanmar’s forests

Katie Arnold 23 Sep 2016

A dangerous, illegal necessity: charcoal reform comes to Virunga

Sophie Mbugua 2 Aug 2016

“Carbon farming” good for the climate, farmers, and biodiversity

Erik Hoffner 28 Jul 2016
Rainforest in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

New Rainforest Alliance head: technology could improve commodity certification

Rhett A. Butler 21 Mar 2016
Pulp and paper plantation on peatland in Riau. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

APP to work with 500 villages to combat deforestation

Loren Bell 13 Jan 2016

Community plants green shoots of hope in the land of the lost Javan tiger

Petrus Riski 11 Nov 2015

Land rights and access to credit in Sulawesi community brings prosperity to land

Wahyu Chandra 9 Nov 2015

Bali’s mountain dwellers govern with ancient palm leaf treatises

Luh De Suriyani 29 Oct 2015

Punk rocker likes what he sees in Sumatra’s resin forest

Taufik Wijaya 19 Oct 2015

In the shadow of a metropolis, a community revives Java’s lost forests

Petrus Riski 16 Oct 2015

A village in Borneo turns away from palm oil

Andi Fachrizal 14 Oct 2015

After the tsunami, a forest restored along a river in Aceh

Chik Rini 13 Oct 2015

Lombok’s blooming community forest bears fruit and raises livelihoods – and haj trips

Jay Fajar 7 Oct 2015

Agroforestry in spotlight ahead of Jokowi’s trip to New York

Ethan Harfenist 19 Sep 2015

Investment in small-scale farmers ‘could have big payoff’ in the fight against climate change, poverty

John Cannon 9 Sep 2015

Overcoming poverty through ‘regreening’

David Brown 12 Aug 2015

Cleaning up cacao: making the chocolate business more sustainable

Rhett A. Butler 26 Jul 2015

Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2015

Consumer choice: Shade-grown coffee and cocoa good for the birds, farmers, ecosystems

Michael Buelna 22 May 2015

To improve food security, look to the forests, new report says

Mike Gaworecki 8 May 2015

EU votes to scale back on biofuels linked to deforestation

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2015

Did palm oil expansion play a role in the Ebola crisis?

Emmanuel K. Urey 14 Jan 2015

Success of ‘land sparing’ will depend on global economics, regulations

Erin Kitchell 16 Dec 2014

Initiative to restore 50M acres of degraded Latin American ecosystems by 2020

Rhett A. Butler 7 Dec 2014

New survey finds surprisingly large population of endangered owl

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2014

Dogs may be responsible for declining mammals in Brazil’s agroforests

Erin Crandall 26 Sep 2014

Forests as important as farming for some rural communities

Diana Parker 14 Jul 2014

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