Brazil’s new government needs economic growth and may sacrifice the Amazon to get it
By: Ed Atkins
Date: September 7th 2016
Source: The Conversation
There are 1, 642 content items of different types and languages related to forest conservation on the Land Portal.
Liberia’s Land Law Could Protect Forests, People and the Climate
By: Gaurav Madan
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Motherboard
Depending on the season, the journey to Rivercess County requires either bumping along dirt paths or navigating endless stretches of mud. In the heart of Liberia the dense tropical forests, some of the last intact in West Africa, are omnipresent.
Kenya's Ogiek people forced from homes amid 'colonial approach to conservation'
By: Rachel Savage
Date: August 18th 2016
Source: The Guardian
They came without warning, forcing people from their homes with no time to collect their possessions. A deaf old man was attacked when he didn’t hear the orders to leave. Then the houses were burned to the ground.
‘An optimistic place to start’: Myanmar enacts national logging ban
By: Morgan Erickson-Davis
Date: August 3rd 2016
Source: Mongabay
After years of rising deforestation rates, Myanmar is temporarily banning logging activity until March 2017.
- Myanmar lost 5 percent of its tree cover from 2001 through 2014, with rates scaling upward over that time.
Can Tea Help Save the Amazon?
By: Brittany Patterson
Date: 21 June 2016
Source: Scientific American
An effort in Ecuador might point the way to a more sustainable future for the rainforest and people
In the lush green rainforest of the Ecuadorean Amazon, members of the Kichwa indigenous group gather well before dawn to drink guayusa tea.
Top palm oil producer sues green group over deforestation allegations
By: Adam Vaughan
Date: May 9th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Malaysian palm giant, IOI, lost business after it was suspended from the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil’s certification scheme over deforestation allegations in Indonesia