For the Indigenous Gayo, Alas, Kluet, Aneuk Jamee, and Karo peoples, Leuser is not merely a forest—it is sacred ancestral land. Their stewardship has kept the ecosystem intact for centuries. But in ...

For the Indigenous Gayo, Alas, Kluet, Aneuk Jamee, and Karo peoples, Leuser is not merely a forest—it is sacred ancestral land. Their stewardship has kept the ecosystem intact for centuries. But in ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

aims to analyze the variability of drivers of deforestation and forest degradation linked to urbanization in the Congo Basin. Using a series of land cover maps from the years 1986, 2003 and 2019 for ...

This points to the urgency of stopping deforestation as rapidly as possible. Our last tracts of undisturbed tropical rainforest have to be protected. But it also shows us that ending deforestation ...

The fate of Colombia’s rainforest ... of the world’s tropical forests, and nature is losing. Last week, I wrote about the major progress Colombia made in 2023, slashing deforestation rates ...

Last year, South America lost around 20,000 square kilometres of mature tropical forest ... signed a declaration to end deforestation and prevent the rainforest from reaching a “tipping ...

Never before, it seems, has the world been this dedicated to stopping deforestation ... razed an extraordinarily large amount of tropical rainforest. Companies were clearing forests and replacing ...

At the COP27 climate conference last year, Lula declared Brazil was back as a climate champion and would not tolerate any illegal deforestation. Whether the world's largest tropical forest can ...

Another analysis, from 2016 by the nonprofit World Resources Institute, shows deforestation ... tropical rainforest spanning about 12 square miles. “The Kajang forest is a dark spot on maps ...