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Brazilian dry forests are chronically degraded even in non-deforested areas

Study finds a Mexico-sized swath of intact land lost to human pressure

Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse

For Indonesia’s Javan deer, non-protected areas play key conservation role

Jakarta floods spark renewed calls for stronger environmental protection

Environmental damage exacerbates Jakarta flooding amid record rainfall

Regreening a barren Rohingya refugee camp on Myanmar’s border

‘Nothing was left’: Flash floods, landslides hit Indonesia’s Papua region

Conservation groups press world leaders to protect 30% of the planet

Environmental degradation exacerbates Indonesia flooding, landslides

Funds tripled and target slashed, but Indonesia still off pace for reforestation

Saving the forests of the Congo Basin: Q&A with author Meindert Brouwer

Dam drove ‘collapse’ of rainforest bird populations in Thailand

Deforested, degraded land restoration a top priority for African leaders

Land restoration makes progress in Ethiopia

Kenyan charcoal businesses trying to nip invasive tree in the bud

Q&A: Esther Mwangi on why voices of local community members will be featured at GLF Africa conference

Study finds widespread degradation, deforestation in African woodlands

Brazil hits emissions target early, but rising deforestation risks reversal

Tracking the shift of tropical forests from carbon sink to source

Honduras: Indigenous Garifuna use radio to fight for their land

How Colombia became Latin America’s palm oil powerhouse

Tanzania’s Maasai losing ground to tourism in the name of conservation, investigation finds

Crisis in Venezuela: Caparo Experimental Station invaded by 200 farmers

Venezuelan gold strike prompts invasion by 3,000 miners, military raid

Restoring flagging oil palm plantations to forest may benefit clouded leopards, study finds

Why intact forests are important

Protected areas with deforestation more likely to lose status in Brazilian state

Scientists surprised by orchid bee biodiversity near oil palm plantations

Fighting climate change with bioenergy may do ‘more harm than good’

Mine tailings dam failures major cause of environmental disasters: report

Nigeria pledges to restore nearly 10 million acres of degraded land

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