Forestry

As governments face increasing pressure to protect their forests, a new report highlights the importance of sharing the wins and setbacks of tried and tested action in the Global South.

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Forestry

One of the world’s biggest ecological experiments, co-led by the University of Oxford/United Kingdom, on the island of Borneo, has revealed that replanting logged tropical forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings can…

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Forestry

On the 16th May, the European Council passed the Regulation on deforestation-free products. This regulation is meant to ensure that in future, agricultural commodities consumed in the European Union have not led to…

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Forestry

The world’s yearly wood harvests are likely to emit 3.5 to 4.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, more than 10 per cent of recent global annual emissions of carbon dioxide a recent study by the World…

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Forestry

The German Federal Government is launching new projects on forest conservation and reforestation in Brazil and contributing another 93 million euros to the Fundo Floresta – a fund which can provide money for forest…

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Forestry

Large areas of the remaining Amazon rainforest have been degraded by human activity. This causes the same amount of carbon emissions as those from deforestation – if not more.

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Forestry

Forests are an important part of the solution to help avert climate catastrophe. But more needs to be done to avoid forest loss and degradation, and efforts have to be coupled with sustainable forest management,…

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Forestry

Forests have a key role to play in the fight against the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and hunger. That is why Germany’s Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced at the COP27 climate conference in Sharm…

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Forestry

Protecting the animals, plants, fungi and microorganisms that thrive in forests must become a central goal of sustainable forest management worldwide, according to a this report.

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Forestry

This report combines the results of a long-term outlook for the forest sector to 2050 with an assessment of wood demand in a sustainable economic environment.

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