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13/5/2013
It might be regarded as some sort of sick joke that the Great Barrier Reef happens to nestle beside the heart of Australia's fossil fuel export boom.
When the coal ships leave the Queensland ports, the two become one as the captains make ...
30/4/2013
Systematic abuse of small, poorly regulated
logging permits in Africa by companies, forest officials and politicians is undermining efforts to fight deforestation and keep illegal timber out of the EU, says a new report by Global ...
3/4/2013
The forests of Kahuzi-Biega Park in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo have been pillaged for timber, minerals and wild game. But thanks to an ambitious environmental proposal, their most valuable resource may be the carbon in the ...
25/3/2013
In recent years, plant ecologist Zacharie N’Zooh has hiked thousands of kilometers conducting biodiversity surveys for the conservation group, WWF, in the northwestern
Congo basin of his native Cameroon. His work has given him a unique ...
19/3/2013
While on a visit to Bweramule, Rwebisengo in Ntoroko district early last year, a youthful man sprung from his watchtower nestled under a tree shade.Pacing fast, as if he had springs in his legs, he accosted me with a barrage of questions, ...
21/2/2013
Industrial oil palm plantations are spreading from Malaysia and Indonesia to the
Congo raising fears about deforestation and social conflict.
A new report by The Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK), dramatically entitled The Seeds of ...
17/2/2013
Here at the World Bank we believe that independent internal evaluation is central to strengthening our work. Rigorous, evidence-based evaluation informs the design of global programs and enhances the development impact of partner and country ...
11/2/2013
Two environmental activist groups blasted the World Bank over its reported decision to block a probe into its support of industrial-scale rainforest
logging.
Greenpeace and Global Witness issued a statement condemning last Friday's ...
30/1/2013
Deep in the vast rainforest of the Democratic Republic of
Congo, chainsaws are buzzing. Heavy machinery rumbles and growls, as loggers slice their way through the forest.Three newly published investigations have confirmed that much of ...
31/12/2012
2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of the most significant tropical rainforest-related news stories for 2012.
There were many other important stories in 2012 and some were ...
20/12/2012
The Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC) has its first Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) project validated and verified under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS).The Mai Ndombe REDD+ project covers 299,645 ...
14/12/2012
Brazil recently announced its lowest rate of deforestation since recordings began roughly 25 years ago, and the rainforest nations of Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC) say they, too, have slowed deforestation rates ...
11/12/2012
Negotiators took a pass on finalizing key elements of an international mechanism to reduce emissions from tropical deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) – the second largest source of emissions that cause climate change -- at the recently ...
29/11/2012
Runaway economic growth comes with costs: in the case of China's economic engine, one of them has been the world's forests. According to a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), China has become the number one importer of ...
8/11/2012
In 2002 the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC) announced a moratorium on commercial
logging in a bid to save rapidly falling forests, however a new report by Global Witness alleges that industrial loggers are finding away around the
logging ...
7/11/2012
The Cameroon government, in collaboration with the World Resources Institute (WRI) has published an updated interactive atlas to help monitor the country's vast woodlands, which cover over 60 percent of its territory.
The third edition ...
12/10/2012
Back in 2010, the activist group Rainforest Action Network sent a bunch of children's books to a lab for analysis.
The group learned that the paper in most books - including those from The Walt Disney Co., which is the world's largest ...
28/9/2012
Between 50 to 90 percent of
logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime threatening efforts to combat climate change, deforestation, conserve wildlife and ...
27/9/2012
Organised crime trade worth billions of dollars is responsible for 50 to 90 percent of illegal
logging in parts of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and Southeast Asia, with implications for deforestation, climate change and the well-being of ...
24/8/2012
Norway’s environment minister on Friday urged Brazil and Indonesia to avoid backtracking on policies to protect tropical forests, saying up to $2 billion in aid promised by Oslo hinged on proof of slower rates of forest clearance.Norway, ...
27/7/2012
A new regional initiative will help 10 central African countries to set up advanced national forest monitoring systems, FAO announced on Thursday. The 10 countries are part of the
Congo Basin and include Burundi, Cameroon, Central African ...
26/7/2012
Ten Central African countries have agreed to take part in a regional initiative to monitor the
Congo Basin, one of the world's largest primary rainforests, the UN's food agency said Thursday.
"A new regional initiative will help 10 ...
19/7/2012
Industrial
logging in tropical forests that is both sustainable and profitable is impossible, argues a new study in Bioscience, which finds that the ecology of tropical hardwoods makes
logging with truly sustainable practices not only ...
15/6/2012
Five large corporations have launched an effort to boost demand for carbon credits from "high quality" Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) projects in tropical countries.
Insurance giant Allianz, French retail ...
10/5/2012
Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known ...