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Timber Companies Have the Opportunity to Protect Forests Long Term

The majority of logging companies, however, fail to protect their lands from unsustainable clear-felling practices and even fewer have systems to monitor and ensure such policies.

James Fair

Scenes from Pallisco Logging company's FSC Timber operations in Mindourou, Cameroon.

Environment

Why More Roads in the Congo Basin Could Lead to Increased Deforestation

The construction of logging roads in the region has doubled over the past 15 years, and researchers warn that this increase could have serious environmental ramifications.

John C. Cannon

A visitor walks along a path of Coastal Redwood trees at Muir Woods National Monument.

Environment

Is There a More Climate-Friendly Way to Manage Our Forests?

The logging industry argues that cutting down old-growth trees is good for forest management, but the science says otherwise.

Paul Koberstein & Jessica Applegate

Environment

Brazilian Companies Illegally Degrading the Amazon Continue to Operate With Impunity

Although producers of soy, cattle, and timber were charged with environmental crimes, their products continue to flow into international markets.

Karla Mendes

Environment

Researchers Uncover Just How Damaging Fires and Logging Are to Forest Soil

Forest soils recover from disturbances slowly over many years—up to 80 years following a wildfire and as many as 30 years after logging, much longer than previously thought.

Mike Gaworecki

One of the breeding butterflies at Suleiman Kachuma's butterfly garden near Arabuko Sokoke forest.

Economics

Butterfly Farming Is Helping Indigenous East Africans Save Their Forests

In Kenya and Tanzania, native communities are capitalizing on the insect business to ditch the ecologically damaging and illegal logging trade.

Janet Njung’e

Newly planted palm oil trees are seen growing on the site of destroyed tropical rainforest in Indonesia.

Environment

The Continued Clearing of Rainforests Spells Disaster for Curbing Climate Change

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.

Hans Nicholas Jong

Environment

Half of Costa Rica’s Regrown Forests Are Gone Within Two Decades

Secondary forests are vital parts of the ecosystem, but in Costa Rica many of them are re-cleared before achieving old-growth levels of biodiversity.

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega

Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.

Environment

Ukraine’s Massive Illegal Logging Crackdown Stalls

The measures introduced in July to curb corruption in the country's timber industry are still awaiting a signature from Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.

John C. Cannon

California Governor Jerry Brown, FEMA Administrator Brock Long and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke tour a school burned by the Camp fire on November 14th, 2018, in Paradise, California.

The Trump Administration Wants to Roll Back Environmental Protections to Help Fight Fires

New farm bill provisions would eliminate environmental protections for forest management, without addressing the wildfires' biggest driver: climate change.

Emily Moon