"Its presence disrupts the forest at many levels and may prevent the rainforest from fully recovering after deforestation." ...

Madagascar is renowned for its lemurs, which are threatened due to hunting and deforestation. Restoring native forests to ...

Small farmers and community-led conservation efforts are trying to protect one of the biggest semi-arid forests in the world – under threat from expanding agriculture, wildfires and the ‘logging mafia ...

Michael Garrity writes, As the national debt is at a record $38.8 trillion, there is simply no reason the Forest Service ...

Heading into COP30, where tropical forests are set to be a central theme, it seemed worth looking today’s trajectories a little further forward and imagine where they might lead. Part 1 looked at ...

Industrial rubber plantation in Colombia. Photos by Rhett A. Butler. Surging demand for natural rubber is decimating some of the world’s most endangered forests, putting wildlife and critical ...

SAO PAULO — For nearly 20 years, Brazil's largest soy producers assured buyers that their harvest — the world's biggest — wasn't grown on land cleared from Amazonian forests. The pledge, known as the ...

Australia is losing its forests at such a dangerous rate, it is the only “developed” country on the list of global deforestation hotspots. Deforestation fundamentally reduces biodiversity, damages ...

Coconut palms are king throughout the tropics, serving as the foundation for human lives and cultures across the Pacific Ocean for centuries. However, 200 years of planting by colonial interests ...