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Do you think you have what it takes to be a youth delegate or a social reporter at the Peatlands Matter event in Jakarta? And, can you clear your schedule from May 16 – 18? We’re looking for tomorrow’s journalists, scientists and policymakers who are passionate about peatlands, gathering the best and brightest from Indonesia and beyond to […]

March 22 is the United Nations’ (UN) World Water Day. Anyone who has walked outside on a sunny day knows that forests and trees matter for temperature, humidity and wind speed. Planting trees speaks to concerns about climate change, but the directly important aspects of the tree-climate relationships have so far been overlooked in climate […]

#ListenToTheYoungVoices was the theme of the day, going into the UN 2017 World Wildlife Day. We held a rousing Q&A session on twitter and learned from our social media community about the relationships between wildlife, habitat protection, agriculture, and development. Here are our top 6 takeaways from that discussion. 1. Habitat loss for increased food […]

By Kate Evans, originally posted on Forests News Nepal – Nepal is a world leader in returning forest tenure rights to local people. But restrictive regulations continue to undermine communities’ attempts to establish sustainable businesses from forest products, experts say. Following sweeping reforms in the 1990s aimed at addressing widespread deforestation, over 20,000 community forest […]

By Pablo Pacheco, originally posted on Forests News Brazil – The successful Brazilian experience in slowing down deforestation in the Amazon has captured a lot of attention in the global arena, but serious concerns linger about its possible resurgence. While it is important to strengthen public and private arrangements to reach zero deforestation, or at […]

Written by James Reed for CIFOR’s Forests News Leaders at 2016 World Water Week posed the crucial question of  ‘how’? “Implementation, implementation, implementation – just not necessarily in that order.” This was the response of Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of OECD, when asked at Stockholm’s World Water Week what three priority strategies the water sector should be […]