15 April 2022
Critics of a government plantation scheme have slammed the program following revelations that only a fraction of forest reserves cleared for plantations over the past decade have actually been replanted.
An investigation by environmental news site Macaranga found that only 5% of the 77,331 hectares
1 April 2022
Audit says ministry gave illegal permits, didn’t collect taxes
Publication is step to unlocking $500 million in climate funds
31 March 2022
AKIPRESS.COM - Mongolia has established a fund to support its national tree-planting campaign, Xinhua reported on Thursday citing the presidential press office.
The nationwide campaign to plant at least 1 billion trees by 2030 was officially launched last year as Mongolian President Ukhnaa
17 March 2022
Kinandu village residents in southern Democratic Republic of Congo are taking part in a reforestation initiative in the miombo woodlands while land grabs are simultaneously on the rise.
9 March 2022
For years, people have settled illegally in national parks around Indonesia, clearing the land and farming it in the hope they will eventually be granted legal title to it.
While the authorities’ default response has been to evict them, a new government program is taking a more collaborative
4 March 2022
Ecuador has elevated nature as a legal subject in its constitution - and still allows harmful copper mining. A young woman learns to fight back
28 February 2022
Panamá refuerzas sus normativas en materia de protección y conservación del ambiente. El presidente de la República, Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, firmó la Ley 287 del 24 de febrero de 2022, “Por medio de la cual se reconocen los Derechos de la Naturaleza, las obligaciones del estado relacionados a
9 February 2022
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has ruled that an Indigenous community’s right to free, prior and informed consultation was violated by oil projects, and called for stronger protections to guarantee Indigenous communities’ rights to decide over extractive projects in their territories.
8 February 2022
President Joko Widodo’s administration announced last week that it was cancelling millions of hectares worth of logging, plantation and mining concessions.
Environmental activists say this presents an opportunity to conserve these lands, which cover a combined area larger than Belgium, by
28 January 2022
Ten Native American tribal nations, forming the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, have received ownership of 215 hectares (532 acres) of California’s redwood forest. The tribal council is partnering with Save the Redwoods League, which donated the land, to protect and restore their
27 January 2022
The European Union’s landmark anti-deforestation law should require businesses to respect traditional communities’ rights over their territories or risk failing to deliver on its objectives, more than 191 Indigenous, environmental, and human rights organizations from 62 countries said today in an
6 December 2021
With the Indonesian government refusing to renew a three-year ban on issuing licenses for new oil palm plantations, experts are warning of a deforestation free-for-all.
The end of the moratorium means companies can once again apply to develop new plantations, including clearing forests to do.
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