Category: Initiatives

To Save Indonesia’s Peatlands, Start by Mapping Them

The International Peat Mapping Team was awarded the Indonesian Peat Prize for their mapping technology.

A new set of materials helps explain how forests and land use relate to climate change.

Yaguas National Park is located in the Loreto Region of northern Peru and covers more than 868,000 hectares of Amazonian rainforest.

Indigenous people will be supported in protecting their forest land and resources through International Land & Forest Tenure Facility.

Attempting to fight climate change without lifting up communities who protect forests is grave mistake, says Ford Foundation President.

World leaders must do more to defend custodians of natural world whose lives are at risk from big business, says UN Rapporteur.

The Brazil Fund is supporting investigative journalism projects focused on human rights violations and discrimination.

EU forest climate proposal could hide emissions increase and set dangerous precedent

BIC report finds World Bank's fossil fuel subsidies undermine its own forest protection and climate commitments.

Posted on December 9, 2016.

Forest 500 analysis finds the export trade in soy, palm oil, beef, leather, paper and timber continues to destroy rainforests.