Deforestation

New research has found that higher levels of inequality lead to more deforestation, whereas better equality leads to better forest protections.

France's new strategy to stop importing "unsustainable forest and agricultural products" is just one piece of a much bigger puzzle for the European Union.

Small-scale gold mining has led to the destruction of more than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon over the past five years, according to new research.

The countries with the richest swaths of rainforest are still cutting them down, undermining one of the best available solutions to staving off climate change impacts.

Researchers warn that an area of Brazilian Amazon rainforest bigger than Ireland is at risk of losing its legal protection.

Haiti's deforestation is largely driven by small-scale farming and charcoal production, which involves harvesting wood and heating it to remove water and volatile compounds.

According to a new analysis, tropical forest loss currently accounts for 8 percent of the world's annual carbon dioxide emissions.

This has led to over-hunting and persecution by cattle ranchers becoming even bigger threats to the survival of the big cat.

A new report from Greenpeace shows that brands and their suppliers are not abiding by their own pledges to only buy from sustainable producers of palm oil.

Commodity-driven deforestation is most responsible, with farming and forestry also playing a major role in the global tree cover loss.

New research using radar data, as opposed to visual satellite imagery, is a reminder that deforestation and environmental degradation aren't just happening in tropical forests.

Through rituals like tree ordinations some monks in Thailand are integrating Buddhist principles into sustainable ecological practices.

A recent study illustrates the connection between consumer demand in the U.S. and increased furniture production in China, which is, in turn, fueling logging in Central Africa.

A new study using a combination of data sources finds that fire is causing more degradation of forests than logging, the other most significant driver of loss in the Amazon.

The government has banned logging in the country for three months, driving cooking fuel prices through the roof.

A recent study out of Malaysia illustrates that even responsible logging practices severely harm local fish populations.

Illegal logging continues to be a persistent problem in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, threatening an already fragmented wildlife habitat and forcing indigenous tribes off their land.

Hundreds of companies have pledged to cut commodities grown on deforested land from their supply chains, but few have turned those promises into successful policies.

A new report finds that scientists described 381 new species of wildlife from the Amazon in peer-reviewed scientific journals between January of 2014 and December of 2015. Some, however, are already on the brink of extinction.

The government hopes to use the collected penalties to fund restoration efforts in the degraded Indonesian land and forests. Without the penalties, no restoration work can start.

In the country's southeast Guaviare department, harvested wood rots on the ground while gangs and drug traffickers take over the land for illegal mining and agriculture.

Researchers say a conservation initiative known as a payments for ecosystem services really paid off in terms of preventing deforestation.

A Rainforest Foundation UK briefing highlights very weak governance in the country, which means there is limited ability for the government to control its forest resources and to implement effective planning and management.

Increasing beef productivity and engaging directly with the supply chain may be a flawed approach when seeking positive conservation outcomes.