By: May Titthara
Date: September 27th 2016
Source: Khmer Times
Despite numerous laws and committees created to tackle deforestation and illegal logging in Cambodia, the timber trade has continued unabated.
By: Jonathan Watts
Date: November 2nd 2016
Source: the Guardian
Sep 12, 2011 (Public Agenda/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- So far, debates around Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) have almost neglected gender issues and the role women can play. Despite the fact gender equality is currently appreciated among many professions,
Date:November 16th 2016
Source: FAO Press Office
FAO unveils new global framework for action on water scarcity at COP22 summit
16 November 2016, Marrakech, Morocco-The world must rapidly move to scale up actions and ambitions on climate change FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told
By: PPI
Date: March 20th 2016
Source: Pakistan Today
Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment’s (SCOPE) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the country’s prominent environmentalist, Tanveer Arif, said on Sunday that bad governance was behind Pakistan’s massive deforestation was
By: Pius Sawa
Date: 16 December 2016
Source:PLACE.TRUST.ORG
"I used to stay away three hours looking for enough wood to cook beans, but now it is easy because I need just a small bundle"
By: Sebastien Malo
Date: May 12th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new map shows areas occupied by indigenous people in Central America, using previously untapped native knowledge, that could help claims by local tribes to ancestral land amid rapid
By: Ruth Maclean
Date: 14 July 2016
Source: The Guardian
Civil society groups want 2014 bill passed before August recess, claiming land grabs have ‘turned citizens into refugees in their own country’
By: Patrick Adoga
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Today
As the world celebrates the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations today, conservationists have warned transnational companies from Europe, America and Asia against scramble for land in Nigeria and Africa for
Forests and grasslands would store more carbon if communities’ rights were protected, according to research from the leading climate economist
By: Angela K. Evans
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: Boulder Weekly
Fighting deforestation in the Congo Basin by giving voice to indigenous people
“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”