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Nearly six years have passed since Indigenous forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara was killed and his colleague Laércio Guajajara was wounded in what authorities believe was an ambush by illegal loggers in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Yet the two suspects charged…
Indonesia has announced an ambitious pledge to recognize Indigenous and customary community rights to 3.5 million acres of forest by 2029—a promise that would quadruple the country’s officially recognized customary forests. Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni unveiled the plan at…
A groundbreaking $125 billion global fund designed to pay tropical countries for forest protection is facing fierce criticism from environmental and Indigenous groups who say it could actually worsen deforestation and burden developing nations with debt. The Tropical Forests Forever…
Malaysia’s Kinabatangan floodplain has achieved a major conservation milestone by joining UNESCO’s prestigious network of biosphere reserves. The newly designated Kinabatangan Biosphere Reserve spans over one million acres of forests, wetlands, and villages in eastern Sabah, creating crucial habitat protection…
With the COP30 climate summit set to take place in the Amazon, a glaring contradiction in climate finance is coming into sharp focus: Indigenous and local communities protect more than one-third of the world’s intact tropical forests, yet receive less…
Brazil faces a persistent dilemma: how can a nation so dependent on its natural resources also preserve them? Renata Piazzon, head of São Paulo’s Instituto Arapyaú, believes she has the answer. The environmental lawyer argues that forest conservation and economic…
As world leaders prepare for next week’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil, tiny Suriname is punching well above its weight in global climate discussions. This South American nation of just 600,000 people has achieved something remarkable: it’s one of only…
Ghana has achieved a historic milestone, becoming the first African nation to secure fast-track access to European Union timber markets through a prestigious “gold standard” certification. After 16 years of negotiations, the West African country earned a Forest Law Enforcement,…
As world leaders prepare for COP30 climate talks, where tropical forests will take center stage, experts are calling for a fundamental shift from simply fighting deforestation to actively redesigning forest protection systems. Last year alone, fires destroyed over three million…
As world leaders prepare for COP30 climate talks, where tropical forests will take center stage, alarming new data reveals the scale of the crisis ahead. In 2024, the tropics lost 6.7 million hectares of primary rainforest—an area equivalent to Panama…
