The Jewish National Fund UK has always denied a swirl of claims over its history and activities in the Middle East, including allegations of land grabbing Palestinian villages. But campaigners want the organisation stripped of its charitable status
UK charity dogged by 'monocultures and rights violations' claims The Ecologist | 7th October 2011 News Politics And Economics Investigations Forests Middle East sunthroughtrees.jpg The Jewish …
Forest communities are fighting increasing incursions onto their land by US oil companies. Now the Belizean government is seeking to reverse a court ruling preventing them allowing oil exploration, logging or mining. Robin Llewellyn reports from Belize
… The judge drew guidance from an earlier judgment of the Inter-American Commission on … date has been set for the delivery of the judgment which leaves the villages involved in a … the authorities are not waiting for the judgment to be delivered before pressing ahead …
The practical evidence suggests agroforestry in the UK has got something to offer both commercial farmers and smallholders alike. The challenge now, says Ed Hamer, is how to encourage sceptical farmers that planting trees across farmland is a good idea
Agroforestry comes of age, but will UK farmers embrace it? Ed Hamer | 2nd March 2012 News Forests Agroforestry Food And Farming Investigations istock_000002151884large.jpg The practical evidence …
The revolution in remote monitoring should help solve environmental problems, but might it also increase our distance from the natural world?
Big brother gone green: using technology to tackle the eco-crisis Hugh Knowles Martin Wright | 6th April 2012 News Forests Technology Investigations Pollution Science And Technology …
An agreement that would end 30 years of verbal, and often physical, confrontation over the future of the forests in the Australian state of Tasmania is teetering on the edge of collapse. Ollie Milman reports
Activists return to defend Tasmania's forests as logging resumes Ollie Milman | 27th April 2012 News Natural World Investigations Forests Logging Activists carbon-conflicts.jpg An agreement that …
Western consumers are inadvertently driving the Sumatran elephant to extinction by eating, washing and wearing - in cosmetics - the derivatives of a fruit that is destroying the animal's last remaining forest habitat. Jim Wickens reports
… hillsides. Navigating our way through the quagmire, we passed two motorbikes, wildlife …
High Street banking giant HSBC is bankrolling the destruction of rainforests essential for the survival of Bornean orangutans and other endangered species.
HSBC loans drive deforestation and push orangutans to the brink Paul Newman | 7th November 2013 News Natural World Palm Oil Forests Deforestation Banks HSBC orang-utan-rescue.png High Street banking …
The Awá have been driven to the brink of extinction as waves of illegal loggers, settlers and ranchers have flooded their land. Toby Nicholas reports that there is hope on the horizon ...
Loggers against Earth's most threatened tribe Toby Nicholas | 11th November 2013 News Forests Logging Tribal People Society The Awá have been driven to the brink of extinction as waves of illegal …
The Kenyan government has sent troops to the Embobut forest to forcefully - and illegally - evict thousands of its indigenous inhabitants, to make way for a World Bank-financed 'Natural Resource Management Project'.
… "squatters" . STOP PRESS 10th January 13.00 GMT Yator Kiptum David, a Sengwer has just …
An Indonesian palm oil company has been convicted of large-scale burning of protected swamp forest in Aceh - home to some of Sumatra's last orangutans.
Palm oil company's $30 million fine for burning rainforest The Ecologist | 17th January 2014 News Rainforest Biofuel Palm Oil Farming Forests tripa-burning.png An Indonesian palm oil company has been …
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development has warned APRIL, Indonesia's second largest pulp and paper company: end your massive deforestation or you will be expelled.
Pulp and paper giant - end deforestation! The Ecologist | 20th January 2014 News Pulp Forests Indonesia indonesia-clearance.png The World Business Council for Sustainable Development has warned …
A new scientific study has revealed that Paraguay's Chaco forest - the last refuge of the uncontacted Ayoreo tribe - is being devastated by the world's highest rate of deforestation.
World's highest deforestation rate on uncontacted tribe's land The Ecologist | 21st January 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Forests Paraguay ayoreo-chaco.png A new scientific study has revealed that …
The Kenyan government has begun to forcibly evict tens of thousands of Sengwer indigenous people from their ancestral forest lands and burn their homes, food stores and belongings to the ground. The World Bank wrings its hands.
Kenya: police begin Forest People evictions The Ecologist | 23rd January 2014 News Indigenous People Forests World Bank Kenya torched-sengwer-home.png The Kenyan government has begun to forcibly …
L'Oreal, the world's largest beauty and cosmetics company, has committed to remove forest destruction from its products by 2020.
L'Oreal moves against forest destruction The Ecologist | 30th January 2014 News Palm Oil Forests Indonesia Health borneo-orangutan.png L'Oreal, the world's largest beauty and cosmetics company, has …
Yellowstone's Grizzly bears are facing multiple threats, writes Anna Taylor - from proposals to remove their protection under the US Endangered Species Act, and shortages of key foods caused by climate change.
Yellowstone grizzlies face trophy-hunting threat Anna Taylor | 31st January 2014 News Natural World Hunting Bears Climate Change Forests USA Hunting grizzly-bison-carcass.png Yellowstone's Grizzly …
Amazon threat from soybean expansion delayed for a year - but 8 million hectares of unprotected forest at risk from 2015 pending new measures.
Brazil extends Amazon protection from soy farms The Ecologist | 3rd January 2014 News Amazon Brazil Food Farming Forests soy-rondonia.png Amazon threat from soybean expansion delayed for a year - but …
The unfolding human and ecological disaster of GM agriculture in the Americas must send the EU a powerful message, writes Helena Paul. We don't want it here, and we should stop buying the products of GM-driven genocide and ecocide abroad.
… GM crops are driving genocide and ecocide - … | 5th February 2014 News Genocide Ecocide Gm Food GMOs South America Brazil Argentina Uruguay …
A succession of mega-corporations that have been driving rainforest destruction in Indonesia have recently announced 'no deforestation' policies. Bill Lawrance asks: is it too good to be true?
Are the global forest-destroyers turning over a new leaf? Bill Laurance | 13th February 2014 News Forests Indonesia april-plantation.png A succession of mega-corporations that have been driving …
The winter Olympics at Sochi have trashed the National Park that contains Russia's richest biodiversity, writes Igor Chestin. Worse, the gutting of key environmental laws means that it can happen all over again, and again.
Sochi - an Olympiad of environmental destruction Igor Chestin | 17th February 2014 News Russia Forests Natural World mzympta-dumping.png The winter Olympics at Sochi have trashed the National Park …
The global cereal giant Kellogg has committed to sourcing palm oil that is deforestation-free. It will also ensure that carbon rich tropical peatlands are preserved.
Kelloggs goes 'deforestation free' The Ecologist | 19th February 2014 News Forests Food Corporations kelloggs-big-mix.png The global cereal giant Kellogg has committed to sourcing palm oil that is …
After a two year celebrity-backed campaign, Brazil is finally expelling invaders from the ancestral rainforests of the Awa Indians - just in time to avoid embarrassing World Cup protests.
Amazon: loggers, ranchers expelled from Awa lands The Ecologist | 26th February 2014 News Forests Brazil Indigenous Peoples awa-logging-camp.png After a two year celebrity-backed campaign, Brazil is …
Thieves are stealing valuable growths of bud tissue from the trunks of Coast redwood trees in California, putting their long term survival at risk. Park authorities have responded by closing a road used by the thieves at night.
Redwood thieves force California forest curfew Oliver Tickell | 6th March 2014 News Forests USA Wildlife Trade redwood-burr.png Thieves are stealing valuable growths of bud tissue from the trunks of …
It's not just people, animals and trees that suffer from radiation at Chernobyl, writes Rachel Nuwer, but also decomposer fungi and microbes. And with the buildup of dead wood comes the risk of catastrophic fire - which could spread radiation far and wide.
Chernobyl's forests - dead wood and leaves preserved by radiation Rachel Nuwer Smithsonian | 24th March 2014 News Forests Ukraine Nuclear Power Radiation Health chernobyl-radiation-map.png It's not …
A new 'carbon grab' is under way as governments and corporations seize valuable rights to the carbon stored in standing forests, with UN and World Bank support. But there's no benefit for forest communities - who even risk expulsion to make way for 'carbon plantations',
Forest Peoples at risk from 'carbon grab' Oliver Tickell | 20th March 2014 News Forests Indigenous Peoples Climate Change baka-forest.png A new 'carbon grab' is under way as governments and …