Total’s Congo offsetting project ‘snatched our land’
12 December 2022
Farmers say oil giant’s tree-planting scheme has barred them from their fields and threatens livelihoods
Tree cover in Nepal has doubled since forests were entrusted to local communities
19 November 2022
Over the last four decades, Nepal’s communities have carried out an extraordinary reforestation campaign. And the results are clearly visible.
Indigenous women weaving knowledge for resilience
16 November 2022
Powerful indigenous women, guardians of the forests and ancestral knowledge of Africa, Mesoamerica and the Colombian Amazon and Brazil, joined their voices at the event “Indigenous Women: Weaving the climate change agenda towards a sustainable future” to make an urgent call to stop the violence caused by climate change and the destruction of the environment that continues to affect their territories; and demand recognition of their ancestral knowledge as essential contributions to the future of humanity.
Levi Sucre to Forests and Climate Leaders’ Summit: “Enough of agreements that do not land in the territories!”
15 November 2022
The Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (AGCT) made an urgent call to action to world leaders during the Leaders’ Summit on Forests and Climate at COP27, being held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
'Changing the environment through hard work': Taiwanese tree-planter in Mongolia
24 September 2022
Seventy percent of land in Mongolia has succumbed to desertification. The land has also come under relentless pressure from overgrazing by 60 million head of livestock and extractive industries like mining.
Carbon credit plan meets flak
19 September 2022
Thailand: Climate change strategy gives too much power to big corporations at the expense of local communities.
Communities look forward to reviving and commercialising private forests in Nepal
17 September 2022
Most of the land where the private forests were located was sold. This then resulted in different issues as wood became scarce along with other forest resources.
Oil not charcoal the biggest threat to Congo rainforest, top researcher warns
25 August 2022
Stop blaming poor communities for deforestation, urges author of upcoming FAO report, warning oil exploration could set off a “giant carbon bomb”
Singapore will plant 1 million trees by 2030
07 July 2022
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Singapore has launched a reforestation campaign after losing huge amounts of mangrove habitats in the past century.
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It plans to plant 1 million trees within 10 years to improve living conditions for wildlife and people.
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The scheme began in March 2020 and had led to the planting of 51,819 trees by October 2021.
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One goal of the project is to have all Singaporean households approximately a 10-minute walk from a park.
México: organización comunitaria, el mejor abrigo para el cuidado de los bosques
23 June 2022
Solo ramas y pedazos de troncos tirados en el suelo quedaron donde antes había bosque. Eso fue lo que dejaron los taladores ilegales que, entre 2008 y 2011, entraron a la zona forestal de la comunidad de Cherán, en la región purépecha de Michoacán. En tres años, la devastación alcanzó a cerca de 7133 hectáreas.
In Bangladesh, a community comes together to save a life-giving forest
19 May 2022
- Several tribal settlements are spread across Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region, each with its own communally managed forest that residents can use.
- But the unchecked exploitation of the once-rich forests, a consequence of population growth, has led to local water holes drying up, forcing many residents to leave the villages.
- In one village, however, residents started an initiative with various programs aimed at conserving their forest and providing funding for alternative livelihoods to reduce members’ reliance on forest resources.
Panamá prueba estrategias de reforestación para cumplir objetivo de restaurar 50 mil hectáreas de bosque
06 May 2022
COLÓN, Panamá — Hace aproximadamente 3 millones de años, salió del océano una masa terrestre y creó un istmo que conectó lo que ahora se conoce como América del Norte y del Sur. Hoy en día, el centro de ese puente de tierra es el país de Panamá, el cual presume de tener más diversidad de aves que cualquier otro país de América Central, pero cuyas selvas tropicales están sufriendo el impacto de la urbanización y la cría de ganado, lo que resulta en deforestación y contaminación del agua potable.