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Growing conflicts over Tanzania's 'charismatic carbon'
Thembi Mutch
7th September 2010
The country's forests are at the centre of a new global scramble to 'buy up' carbon, but as Thembi Mutch reports, is the process really going to benefit the environment or people? more...
Putting communities back in charge of their forests
Christopher Davey
29th June, 2010
What can western countries learn from their less industrialised counterparts about returning woodlands and forests to productive, profitable, local control? more...
Protecting rainforests shown to reduce poverty
Ecologist
28th May, 2010
Introduction of measures to protect rainforests and ecosystems in Costa Rica and Thailand over the past 40 years have improved the livelihoods of the local population more...
Protecting forests AND the rights of forest peoples
Laura Sevier
8th December, 2009
The plans currently under consideration for saving forests might help the trees, but they could ride roughshod over indigenous communities. Here are some ways to change that more...
Deforestation in central London
Laura Sevier
17th November
An installation featuring giant tropical tree stumps in Trafalgar square is designed to symbolise threatened rainforest trees throughout the world more...
All carbon is not born equal
Eric Marx
17th November, 2009
Are we risking serious problems if action to tackle deforestation assumes that a tonne of tree carbon is the same as a tonne of fossil carbon? more...
Biodiversity 'invisible' in current economic model
Ecologist
13th November, 2009
The steady loss of forests, soils, wetlands, fisheries, species and coral reefs around the world is closely tied to the lack of value we put on nature, says three-year study more...
Tackling illegal logging
Andrew Wasley
1st April, 2009
Reporting from the front-line of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at those combating illegal logging more...
The 300-350 Show: saving forests requires more than cash
Phil England
29th October, 2009
Nathaniel Dyer of the Rainforest Foundation UK explains how saving forests is about far more than simply throwing money at the problem more...
UK to give £50m to forest protection fund
Ecologist
21st October, 2009
Government says funding will support pilot projects to help determine longer term support to fight deforestation more...
Conmen are already selling dodgy forest carbon
Dan Box
16th October, 2009
Fancy some forest carbon, guv'nor? Only one careful owner... Dan Box explains why a cautious approach to deforestation schemes would be wise more...
Can we trust the FSC?
Matilda Lee
22nd September, 2009
It's the logo we all look for when buying furniture and wood products. But the Forest Stewardship Council has come in for some serious criticism. Matilda Lee looks at both sides of the argument more...
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Forget trees and carbon: trees and rain is the real problem
Peter Bunyard
24th August, 2009
As economists and policymakers scramble to put a price on the stored carbon of rainforests, they could be missing the bigger (wetter) picture... more...Forest carbon finance fails root and branch
Harriet Williams
10th February, 2009
Forest carbon finance, through avoided deforestation, is at best a sticking plaster solution that fails to get to the roots of the problem, argues Harriet Williams more...
Paper, scissors, headstone
Laura Sevier
18th December, 2008
Our rampant consumption of paper is leading to a meltdown of the world's forests. Mandy Haggith wants us to use less more...
A tropical storm
William Laurance
1st November, 2008
The world’s tropical forests are falling as fast as ever – at a pace of about 13 million hectares each year, or 50 football fields a minute. But the rainforest killers are changing, with big implications for us all. more...
Q & A: Bruce Parry, explorer & TV presenter
Laura Sevier
1st October, 2008
Bruce Parry on tree-bark trips, deforestation and lessons learnt from tribal living more...
Northern Petroleum eyes Markwells Wood
Sarah Lewis
1st July, 2008
A decision to allow the destruction of an ancient woodland suggests the UK’s environmental policies are crumbling at the first hint of oil, says Sarah Lewis more...
Hedge funds for forests?
Mark Anslow
6th June, 2008
Protecting rainforests is now almost as lucrative as cutting them down. Mark Anslow reports on a commodities-centred approach to stopping deforestation more...
Foraging for sanity - building Holistic Health in Harmony with Nature
Fergus Drennan
1st June, 2008
Expelled from Eden and adrift amid the miracles of modern living, going back to nature is the only way to stay sane and healthy in this mad, bad world, says Fergus Drennanmore...
In a climate of political chaos Zimbabwe's wildlife is being exterminated
Robin Hammond
1st June, 2008
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A steady-state economy
Herman Daly
1st April, 2008
Economist Herman E Daly argues that our future depends on a new economic model, one that needs to be defined by the dynamic balance – the steady state – of the natural world upon which it depends. more...
Monkey business - a brutal Amazonian trade in Owl Monkeys
Peter Bunyard
13th March, 2008
Peter Bunyard on the battle against malaria, a fallen hero of the Colombian medical establishment and the mysterious fate of thousands of unique primates. more...
Corked?
News
7th August, 2007
Eco-labelled wine corks have just hit the market in a move to protect cork forests, which are threatened by a switch to metal screw top and plastic stoppers more...
Old-growth forests must be protected, say scientists
News
7th June, 2007
Forty-two biologists and botanists have sent a signed petition to the governments of British Columbia and Canada calling for full protection of the country's old-growth forest. more...Members
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