Intensive farming makes future pandemics such as Covid-19 more likely as wild animals carrying diseases known to infect humans are forced into increasingly close contact with us, a research report showed on Wednesday.

Writing in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from University College London (UCL) warned that animal pathogens are increasingly likely to make the leap to humans as land-use changes benefit animal hosts.

The UN estimates that three-quarters of land on Earth has been severely degraded by human activity since the start of the industrial era.

Living in the Lesotho mountainlands comes with more than its fair share of rigors, and small-scale farmers like Mrs. Maitumeleng Mabaleka struggle to survive. Land degradation and climate change have upended traditional agricultural practices for her and many others like her who struggle to make a living or grow enough food to feed their children and build a better future.

About 52,257 hectares of degraded land has been recovered in Northern Ghana for agriculture activities through the implementation of the Sustainable Land and Water Management Project (SLWMP).

Mr Asher Nkegbe, the Upper East Regional Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), who is also the Head of the Technical Coordination Office (TCO) of the project, said this at the second 2020 Local Steering Committee Meeting of the SLWMP held in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region.

La deforestación en el estado Amazonas se ha intensificado en los últimos cinco años, pues la pequeña minería ilegal al sur del río Orinoco ha cobrado más fuerza, desde que se oficializó la Zona de Desarrollo Estratégico Nacional “Arco Minero del Orinoco”, un decreto con el que se entregaron concesiones mineras a empresas nacionales y extranjeras, para la explotación de bauxita, cobre, diamante y oro en 112.000 kilómetros cuadrados.

• World's fist comprehensive evidence-based assessment report on land degradation will be launched in March 2018
• Best-available evidence for decision makers to make informed decisions to halt & reverse land degradation
• Prepared by more than 100 leading international experts from 45 countries over 3 years
• Draws on more than 3,000 scientific papers, Government reports, indigenous and local knowledge & other sources
• Improved by over 7,300 comments from more than 200 external reviewers, including Governments
• Examines implications of land d

Is the government of Papua New Guinea turning a blind eye while the country's forests are destroyed?

Environmental groups say Papua New Guinea's government is sitting back while the country's rainforests are being destroyed.

The Pacific nation has just overtaken Malaysia to become the world's biggest exporter of tropical hardwood.

The pacific island of Papua New Guinea is one of the world's most resource rich countries, hosting nearly 7 percent of global biodiversity and important reserves of gold, copper and hydrocarbons.