New report: Global forest wildlife populations in significant decline
The first-ever global assessment of forest biodiversity, Below the Canopy, shows that monitored forest-dwelling wildlife populations have shrunk on average by […]
Kenya must act fast to reverse deforestation
Deforestation of Cherangani hills, Kenya. Photo via Wikimedia Commons According to the World Bank data, in 2015 Kenya’s forest area […]
Ethiopia ‘breaks’ tree-planting record to tackle climate change
Officials in Ethiopia say they have broken the world record for tree-planting with more than 350m seedlings in one day, […]
Report: Climate and mortality rates in Kenya, Mali, and Malawi
Telly, one of the first villages in the Bandiagara escarpment in Mali. Photo via Wikimedia Commons/Ferdinand Reus Research published in […]
Young Journalist Award
The 2019 Young Journalist Award is open! Now in its seventh year, the award – in partnership with the UK Foreign Press Association – is […]
Abu Dhabi Meeting Takes Stock of Progress Ahead of UN Climate Action Summit
The Abu Dhabi Preparatory Meeting for the UN Secretary General’s UN Climate Action Summit brought together representatives from government, business, […]
Study finds lemurs in degraded Madagascar forest skinny and stunted
Photo by Charles J Sharp – Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75870159 In Madagascar’s Tsinjoarivo rainforest, […]
Kenya Forest Service allocates area for endangered Bongo species
The Kenya Forest Service has allocated 776 acres within the Mt. Kenya Forest ecosystem for Mountain Bongo conservation. The land […]
Rethinking Global Climate Action beyond 2020
After a brief celebratory moment following the Paris Agreement on climate change, governmental ambitions have not been anywhere close to […]
Nigeria plans 8-fold increase in palm oil production
Nigeria plans to invest 180 billion naira ($500 million) to increase its palm oil production from around 600,000 tons a […]