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- Leading by Example on the Road to Cancún
- Tropical Biodiversity: An Economic Asset
- Grooming Future Foresters
- Biofuels: The Good, The Bad and The Uncertain
- Complex Answers to Complex Problems
- Forest Management That Reflects Diversity
- Seeing the Forest for More Than Trees
- The Magic of Mangroves
- Think Big, Think Quickly
- Balancing Conservation and Development in the Tropics
- Runaway Global Economy Decimating Nature
- Co-chairs’ Summary: Aichi-Nagoya Ministerial Meeting of the REDD+ Partnership
- Global Extinction Crisis Looms, New Study Says*
- Tackling Climate Change Only Way to Halt Species Extinction Crisis and Declines
- Geoengineering for a Desperate Planet
- Palau Announces Massive Marine Sanctuary
- An Open Letter about Scientific Credibility and the Conservation of Tropical Forests
- Hard to Put a Price-tag on Healthy Rivers
- Canada Seeks to Drop Native Peoples from New Biodiversity Pact
- North-South Divide Again Clouds Biodiversity Talks
- Climate Governance: Ensuring a Collective Commitment
- Forest Crimes and Money Trails
- UN emissions targets likely in 2015 – negotiator
- An Awakening to the Unravelling of the Web Life – Will Action Follow?
- Biodiversity Pact Begins with the Genes
- Getting REDD+ Right
- UNFCCC Adaptation Fund cites CIFOR-CATIE Honduras study
- Agriculture and Forests: From Sparing to Sharing
- Reflections from a south-south exchange: what works in sustainable and equitable oil palm development for food and biofuels?
- How can bamboo reduce vulnerability to climate change, while providing income for local communities?
- Carbon Emotions
- The Joy of Forest Day
- Development or climate change; development while solving climate change
- A REDD+ Deal Likely to Be Made This Week
- Debunking the Myths of a REDD+ Market
- Land use a contentious issue still
- Nature over oil: A wise or crazy choice?
- REDD News Update Indonesia
- Bringing Youth to Forests to Raise Awareness
- Cancun climate change framework just a skeleton, but still a win for adaptation
- Youth Should Lead Fight Against Climate Change
- Rwanda Launches Plan to Reverse Environmental Degradation
- Forests to be a hot topic in 2011
- Stewart Maginnis on Poverty and Forest Restoration
- Putting a positive spin on forests
- Biodiversity goals need to be integrated into forest policy
- Nobel Laureate, Wangari Maathai speaks at the opening of the UN International Year of Forests
- Connecting with Chinese and African scholars-as they connect with each other
- Networks, history and art in Burgos
- REDD News Updates: 5-17 March, 2011
- Local Chief Elections and Deforestation
- 5 Actors, 5 Trends, a Continent of Complexity
- How the media is shaping the debate on climate change in Central Africa
- The Mbuti Pygmies of Congo’s Ituri forest are almost exclusively hunter-gatherers and do not exceed four feet ten inches in height. They have recently survived a brutal civil war and chaotic aftermath which may threaten the very forests they depend on. Photo courtesy of Marc Louwes/flickr
- In the Andes of Ecuador lies the mysterious Cuicocha lagoon, known also as the lagoon of the gods. The islands have a lush vegetation that has grown on volcanic rock with more than 400 plant species between the lake shore and the islands’ mountaintops. Photo courtesy of Sara y Tzunki (Cecilia e Francesco)/flickr
- A child from the Akha tribe in China playing with forest fire. The Akha have faced many controversies related to human rights and justice, particularly in the countries of Thailand and China. Their settled land is built upon hillsides that are valuable for both timber production and farming, and as such has been the target of seizure by government forces. Photo courtesy of Sara y Tzunki (Cecilia e Francesco)/flickr.
- Cattle in the great Kenya drought of 2009. Rising dairy consumption in Asia, especially in China, could lead to environmental impacts linked to growing dairy industries, such as deforestation to grow more cattle-feed, greenhouse gas emissions for cattle, and water pressures. Photo courtesy of ILRI/Adhoch.
- Businesses and environmentalists need to ‘get real’ over REDD+
- Businesses pledge support for Indonesian green economy
- Indonesia’s Yudhoyono promises incentives to develop degraded land
- Agus Purnomo’s key messages for forest and climate change
- REDD+ Taskforce Reaches Out to Palm Oil Companies
- Transcript of President Yudhoyono’s speech at B4E Global Summit
- A new mangrove management strategy?
- Neoliberal conservation: commoditisation, media and celebrity
- The challenges in communicating technical research
- Time for reform of Cameroon’s domestic timber sector
- Reducing forestry emissions in Indonesia
- Legitimacy key to success of global forests scheme in Latin America
- New round of pulp and paper expansion in Indonesia: What do we know and what do we need to know?
- Improving due diligence to reduce money laundering in the forestry sector
- CIFOR research impacts global agenda on adaptation funding
- Science supports profitable beekeeping in Cameroon
- Rainforest activist reported killed months after predicting own disappearance
- How Indonesia can ensure sustainable growth
- To adapt, to mitigate or both alike? Congo Basin forests in a policy dilemma
- Indonesia releases Presidential Instructions for logging moratorium
- Challenges in Communicating REDD+ Hamper Efforts to Save Forests
- Community connections may play a vital role in influencing REDD policy
- REDD+ challenges show reality on the ground
- Does the pressure for impact compromise research?
- CIFOR Director General gives overview of REDD+ research
- Cracking Code REDD: Filipino civil societies demystifying sustainable forestry
- A Gem in the Depths of Danau Sentarum: How orchids can inspire conservation
- Philippines ahead of the game in social forestry
- Global Biofuel Controversies Felt on the Ground in Danau Sentarum
- For richer or for poorer: “Hidden” environmental income critical for rural poverty alleviation
- REDD news update Indonesia May – July 2011
- Market Knowledge Empowers Traders in Cameroon
- Elephants feed on coffee as resources in Indian forests become scarce
- In the management of forests, gender matters
- What does REDD+ really cost?
- How Will the World Fund REDD+? Let me count the ways
- Central Kalimantan May Complete Provincial REDD+ Strategy in 2 Months
- Wealthy households driving deforestation, says new study
- Land tenure reform starting to gain momentum in Indonesia
- Will REDD+ marginalize the poor? Forest dwellers may not benefit from strong tenure systems
- Paper company demonstrates environmental and social responsibility in Lao PDR
- Parks “on paper”: Establishing Special Use Zones in Indonesia’s national parks
- Indonesia Invites the Public to Give Input on REDD+ National Strategy Draft
- How “effective” are protected areas in conserving biodiversity?
- Seeing REDD+ through the eyes of the Indonesian media
- Harnessing water energy in Central America
- Is adaptation to climate change forgotten in Central Africa?
- A balance of the sexes: How men and women can better protect forests together
- Romanticising Life in the Forest a Danger for REDD+
- Public to remain indifferent without real REDD+ implementation, journalists say
- Fewer Farms = More Forest = Less Biodiversity?
- Norwegian Environment Minister reassures Indonesia that forest conservation is “good for business”
- Indonesian companies seek guidelines to engage in REDD+
- Sustainable economic growth is possible in Indonesia, says World Bank
- Green economy must benefit local communities, says Indonesia’s REDD+ Task Force
- ‘Green treasures’ could fuel a new economic sector, says Indonesian President
- Kenyan Nobel laureate, Wangari Maathai, dies in Nairobi
- Indonesia’s leader says he will dedicate final years of his presidency to protect rainforest
- Norwegian Minister for Environment praises Indonesia’s fight against climate change
- On eve of major forestry conference, Indonesia’s President issues decree to cut GHG emissions
- Indonesia’s forest moratorium: A stepping stone to better forest governance?
- Biofuel standards need improvement to protect rainforests
- Orangutan survival rests on conservation education: an interview with Dr. Biruté Galdikas
- Indonesia’s orangutans may be extinct within years, says expert
- Brazilian women push for greater role in managing forest reserves
- EU sustainability schemes fall short of safeguarding rural livelihoods
- Competing actors and land uses in Latin America challenges “effective and equitable REDD+ design”
- The Matching Game: More on Protected Area Effectiveness
- Giving a voice to the invisible women in forest product value chains
- How closing the gender gap will lead to better forest management
- Negotiators should address illegal logging when crafting REDD+ rules, says watchdog
- ‘Carbon debt’ created by some biofuels must be considered in sustainability debate, new study shows
- Mexico pushes for transparency in carbon emissions reporting
- REDD+ challenges as enormous as its opportunities in the Congo Basin
- Adaptation activity funding left hanging since Cancun – progress needed at Durban
- Climate talks on “African soil” must help developing countries fight climate change, says Sierra Leone’s negotiator
- Safeguards failing to protect customary rights during large-scale land acquisitions
- Adding ‘gender’ not always a recipe for REDD+ success
- Are forests and biodiversity playing a vital role in food security and climate change adaptation?
- Failure to have second Kyoto Protocol will threaten UN climate system, says Indonesian negotiator
- Latin America Forest News Updates — November/December 2011
- Booming trade: remnants of the Vietnam War still used as forest products
- Undying flame: Replacing fuelwood with bamboo may help to combat Africa’s deforestation crisis
- Landscape-based certification scheme aims to lift poverty by engaging communities
- Western Amazon in the grip of a “perfect (fire)storm”
- Speaking out on climate change: COP17 in quotes
- Durban talks both good and bad for REDD+, says expert
- “We must be optimistic about progress on climate change in Durban”
- A day in the life of a REDD+ negotiator
- REDD+ biggest success in climate change talks, Norway says
- Insurance, compensation may help mitigate human-wildlife conflicts, experts say
- International investments in agriculture: Do the negative impacts outweigh the benefits?
- Indonesia sets aside 45% of forest-rich Kalimantan to be world’s lungs
- Media leaders: “Infrastructure projects in the Amazon, Rio+20 to lead Latin American forestry news in 2012”
- Indigenous communities make a list of “do’s and don’ts” for forest conservation schemes
- New timber regulation to force companies away from business-as-usual practices
- Saving the women of the rainforest with a Stethoscope
- Poor households depend on non-timber forest products in times of crisis
- Brazil dominates forest-related news coverage of Latin America in 2011
- Preserving peatlands benefits orangutans, makes economic sense, experts say
- Indonesian communities coping with crisis depend on forests
- US biofuel policy excludes Indonesian and Malaysian palm oil amid industry protests
- All that glitters is not gold: Precious metal mining in Congo should stay small for the sake of the forest
- Rush to acquire African farmland risks countries bearing costs of global resource scarcity, says study
- Cooperation between Lao farmers needed to meet market demands for food
- New study highlights need for REDD+ to look beyond carbon
- Traditional livelihoods decline in Borneo forests as communities rely on mining, logging jobs
- Ethiopia pushes for green economy ahead of Rio+20 — forests a major player
- “Unjustly condemned” slash and burn agriculture found essential for forest regeneration
- Ignoring forests won’t bring Rio+20’s ‘future we want’
- New tree-planting and water-use methods boost soil carbon to aid food security in Africa
- Diversified forest gardens can reduce food security risks in Latin America
- Forests becoming ‘human’s garden’, experts worried whether any truly wild places left
- Crippling bureaucracy keeps Congo’s chainsaw millers in legal quagmire
- Land sharing or land sparing? Reconciling agriculture and biodiversity conservation
- The world’s kidneys: Why forests matter for World Water Day and Rio+20
- Paving the Amazon: Study helps predict potential deforestation rates along major highways
- Khat cultivation in Ethiopia fuels economy, reduces deforestation
- Female negotiators at Rio+20 must forge common front to give a voice to forest-dependent women
- Harnessing the Timber Companies: Vignettes from a Year in Borneo
- Investing in managing forest landscapes improves incomes in Guinea
- What you might not have known about forests and food security
- Forests and women – some encouraging signs
- Logging companies may assist rural development: Study
- Global community needs to invest in MRV capacity in forest-rich developing countries to make REDD+ work
- The Letter of Intent that prompted a tectonic shift in the dialogue about Indonesia’s forests: An interview with CIFOR’s DG
- Keeping cultures alive: How cooking and singing can save the Amazon forest
- Woodfuel causes deforestation in Congo Basin yet is potential renewable energy source
- Taking a serious look at gender issues – starting with ourselves
- Health of forest people needs more attention for welfare and environment
- CIFOR Director General reflects on 25 years of change in Indonesia’s forests
- Equitable benefit sharing and better monitoring needed for REDD+ success in Vietnam
- Logging in tropical forests: not all is lost
- Rio+20: Balancing conservation and development key to conserving Cameroon’s forests
- One of Indonesia’s top REDD+ experts discusses logging moratorium progress
- Rio+20 Dialogues: forest peoples’ rights, how can they be recognised and secured?
- In Peruvian Amazon, timber extraction in Brazil nut forests set to rise unless better regulated
- New environment award recognises peace prize winner Wangari Maathai
- “Cash is king”: Forested countries must see REDD+ financial rewards
- Indonesia’s forest moratorium: halfway through, what has been achieved?
- Linking the local to the global: REDD+ as a multi-level puzzle
- Norway may boost REDD+ funding to support green growth
- Indonesia seeks “multi-bilateralism” to help get REDD+ off the ground
- Forests fare poorly in outcomes of Rio+20, say CIFOR scientists
- REDD+ a “game changer” in the move towards a global green economy, says Norwegian Minister
- Communities are not companies: New approach needed for community managed forests
- Speaking out on sustainable development: Rio+20 in quotes
- In gender issues, we need to walk the talk, say leaders and researchers in Rio+20
- New approach to setting reference emissions levels a crucial first step for REDD+
- “A Message of Hope”: Esther Mwangi reflects on her mentor & advisor, Elinor Ostrom
- Private sector “must tap into expanding sustainable markets” to protect Amazon: CIFOR expert
- Boosting Indonesia’s wetlands science is key to tackling climate change
- Palm oil development in Cameroon: An urgent need for a national strategy
- Make it Rain: Planting forests to help drought-stricken regions
- Social assets and social hazards shape adaptive capacity in Setulang
- What’s gender got to do with it? Bush meat consumption in the Congo Basin
- Deforestation from mining in the Congo more than ‘a hole in the canopy’
- “Bootleggers and Baptists” coalitions will help forest certification schemes expand
- Forest communities provide a new perspective on climate change in Papua
- The allure of win-win: can money buy environmental services?
- Indonesia brings new hope for rhino conservation
- Development and conservation in the Amazon: which way forward?
- Greater awareness needed to dispel REDD+ myths
- Why rural women in Uganda should be empowered to take the lead in forestry
- Mozambique resists external pressures and drafts own REDD+ strategy
- Agriculture: friend or foe of the Moluccan cockatoo?
- Experience spanning continents: Phosiso Sola joins CIFOR to lead programs in east and southern Africa
- REDD+ opens up new opportunities for forest product management in the Amazon
- Massive plans for oil and road development may threaten Peruvian Amazon
- REDD+ within reach in rural Brazil
- Chance encounter with reclusive golden cat renews calls for Ugandan park protection
- Follow the rain: tree biodiversity greatest in areas of high rainfall
- What open access science research could mean for the developing world
- Can ecotourism offer funding solutions for Vietnam’s national parks?
- Locals need land titles before development funds can ease rural poverty in Vietnam
- East Kalimantan to trial new REDD+ safeguards system
- Açaí: could the wonder fruit also be wonderful for forests?
- Populations pressure Vietnam’s protected parks
- Are conservation projects succeeding in the Lower Mekong Basin?
- Just add trees: How greening concrete jungles will help us adapt to a warming world
- In Nepal and Papua New Guinea, media does little to explain REDD+
- Farmers help tiger conservation efforts in India
- Management of Congo’s non-timber forest products starts with understanding trade
- Bringing the genebank back to the field: researcher argues for on-farm conservation
- Without healthy ecosystems, jobs disappear, businesses relocate
- Determining deforestation and Deforestation as the determinant
- U.N. recognises new guidelines to better manage competing demands for land
- Sharing land with tigers in Nepal
- Recognising indigenous “sacred areas” could double amount of protected land worldwide
- Farm area ‘the size of Switzerland’ needed to meet India’s biofuel shortage
- Brave new world: the global trends changing the future of deforestation
- Degradation: The forgotten D in REDD+
- Biodiversity & climate negotiators must “talk to each other” for the sake of REDD+, urges Belgium
- No success for REDD+ in Doha until links between carbon, biodiversity & people better understood
- Doha negotiators must consider Africa’s adaptation challenges, says CIFOR scientist
- Landscapes for sustainable development
- Infographic: Charting the history of agriculture and climate change
- Why negotiators at Doha should care about the world’s forgotten mangroves
- Indonesia and REDD+: Moving beyond carbon to sustainable development
- Scientists pinpoint activities driving deforestation and urge countries to take action at Doha
- Big Brother is watching: Forest surveillance systems could reveal new terrestrial animals
- BEST OF 2012: “Designer plants” helping meet demand for palm oil & avoiding deforestation
- BEST OF 2012: Going once, going twice…the great green land grab
- BEST OF 2012: Supernatural powers play key role in forest use
- Scientists show technical concerns no longer an obstacle to progress on REDD+
- How to address new biofuel challenges when impacts on environment and society are ‘mixed’
- Globalisation, logging concessions, conservation organisations and local people
- For indigenous people in Latin America, land rights are only half the battle
- Bamboo carbon credits now on sale in China: INBAR
- Q&A: Land-use planning in northern Papua
- Eco-villages instead of eviction: a new approach to the ‘people in parks’ problem in Indonesia?
- Forests as rainmakers: CIFOR scientist gains support for a controversial hypothesis
- Potential of bamboo to alleviate poverty in rural China remains untapped: Expert
- Losing carbon: New study questions sustainability of biofuel harvested on dry lands
- Trouble ahead if forests and adaptation are not considered in the post Rio+20 era
- How much credit can Brazil take for slowing Amazon deforestation – and how low can it go?
- Logging concession areas: Good for orangutans and forest conservation, says study
- Measuring sustainable development must be made simple and affordable
- Green growth in Myanmar: an emerging democracy’s vision for future development
- A 4°C warmer world “will be catastrophic” for forest biodiversity: expert
- With microfinancing, Vietnam’s rural people emerge as champions of reforestation
- Conflicting land-use rights threaten Brazil nut harvesters
- Latin America’s forests – what lies ahead in 2013?
- In summary: Overcoming conflicting land-use claims in Peru
- Big beetles, big benefits: Trading some of the largest insects on Earth
- Understanding the role of forest income in rural livelihoods: Insights from China
- Preventing partnerships: Timber companies & indigenous groups grapple over land
- Paying farmers to protect forest watersheds in Vietnam & China: The long-term prognosis
- Researchers warn of more wild fires as Peruvians migrate to the big city
- Evidence-based forestry – a core driver in policy-making
- Interpol expert: Fund distribution for scheme to slow global warming needs to be transparent
- In pictures: Indonesia’s mangroves
- Study: Why planting more trees is always a good idea
- Postcards from the Field: Mud, mud, glorious mangroves
- Could sustainable logging save Indonesia’s mangroves?
- ‘Dirty Science’: Excavating the truth about mangroves and carbon
- New training manual gives researchers tools to tackle tenure
- Sharing positive views about forests and trees on the International Day of Forests
- Indonesian province explores ‘green growth’ amidst economic expansion
- Forcing companies to carry out costly biodiversity surveys often backfires: Experts
- Indonesia’s REDD+ pilot province: how is it faring two years on?
- Powerful film, posters spark lasting dialogue over future of local forests
- Can rural women also have it all? Voices of “elite women” important for truly oppressed
- Forest-dwelling Borneo children foresee grim times ahead – study
- Five who make a difference: green pursuits earn innovators forest hero awards
- The Economist says we can simply adapt to climate change. We think they are mistaken.
- Norway’s government pension fund divests from palm oil producers
- Q+A: Forest-tenure reform advances, but questions remain
- Forest foods should be used in fight against global malnutrition – scientist
- World Health Day 2013: Combating malnutrition and infection with forests
- Could radio help mitigate climate change in the Congo Basin?
- Beyond carbon storage: the Congo Basin forest as rainmaker
- From forest harvest to bubbling businesses in the Congo Basin
- Can REDD+ drive change in DR Congo?
- Q+A: Male-female lifestyles should factor into Congo climate programs
- Managing environmental and social effects of large versus small-scale investments in Congo Basin
- Can biodiversity and logging coexist in the Congo?
- Edible insects improve diets and livelihoods of up to 2 billion people – scientists
- Q+A: Committee on World Food Security chair urges use of forest foods in diets
- Scientists aim to pinpoint role of forests in battle against “hidden hunger”
