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Gabon Becomes First African Country to Get Paid for Forest Protection
Gabon recently received the first $17 million of a pledged $150 million from Norway for results-based emission reduction and forest...
Constant Tedder
Jul 22, 20215 min read
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Is Saudi Arabia the Next Sustainable Tourism Destination?
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is looking to become the next sustainable tourism destination with the help of ambitious projects that...
Constant Tedder
Jul 21, 20214 min read
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Philippines’ Rich Bird Life is More Threatened Than We Thought, Study Says
The Philippines supports extraordinary avian diversity. In the last decade alone, 86 new endemic bird species have been found in the...
Constant Tedder
Jul 15, 20217 min read
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10 Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know About ChimpanzeesÂ
Chimpanzees are our closest primate cousins yet their numbers are diminishing every day due to habitat loss related to deforestation and...
Constant Tedder
Jul 15, 20213 min read
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Smartphones and Satellite Data Helped Indigenous Peruvians Protect the Amazon Rainforest – Study
Supplying indigenous communities with smartphones and satellite data can significantly reduce illegal deforestation and mining in the...
Constant Tedder
Jul 14, 20212 min read
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Giant Pandas are No Longer Critically Endangered in the Wild, Reclassified as Vulnerable
Giant pandas have been downgraded from its status as a ‘critically endangered’ species to ‘vulnerable’ after population has increased to...
Constant Tedder
Jul 12, 20212 min read
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In DRC, Community Ownership of Forests Helps Guard the Grauer’s Gorillas
The Democratic Republic of Congo formally recognises community ownerships of three protected forest concessions, incentivising greater...
Constant Tedder
Jul 8, 20218 min read
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Deforestation Soars 40% in Xingu River Basin in Brazilian Amazon
A hundred and ninety-six trees per minute. That’s how fast the forest was being cleared in Brazil’s Xingu River Basin between March and...
Constant Tedder
Jul 7, 20216 min read
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What are Natural Monuments?
According to Category III: Natural Monument or Feature, published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), natural...
Constant Tedder
Jul 6, 20213 min read
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Forest Loss in Mountains of Southeast Asia Accelerates at ‘Shocking’ Pace
Southeast Asia is home to roughly half of the world’s tropical mountain forests. These highland ecosystems support massive carbon stores...
Constant Tedder
Jul 2, 20216 min read
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What Do People Really Know and Want to Know About Plastic & Health?
Have you eaten a bag of chips today? Ordered takeaway? Bought your favourite shampoo? All of these tasks have one thing in common –...
Constant Tedder
Jun 23, 20216 min read
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Deforestation Spikes in Virunga National Park, DRC
Virunga National Park’s forests are some the most biodiverse in Africa and among the last bastions of mountain gorillas,...
Constant Tedder
Jun 22, 20213 min read
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The World’s Top 10 Biggest Rainforests
Tropical rainforests have an outsized role in the world, with their significance marked by the World Rainforest Day. Of the Earth’s...
Constant Tedder
Jun 22, 20219 min read
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Land Conflicts in Brazil Break Record Under Bolsonaro
Land conflicts in Brazil hit 1,576 cases in 2020, the highest number ever recorded by the Catholic Church-affiliated Pastoral Land...
Constant Tedder
Jun 18, 20214 min read
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An Organisation Working to End Bear Bile Farming Has Moved 101 Bears to its Sanctuary in China
Animals Asia, an organisation working to end bear bile farming, has safely transferred 101 Asiatic black bears (or moon bears) from an...
Constant Tedder
Jun 10, 20213 min read
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Study Shows it Took the Amazon as We Know it Over 6 Million Years to Form
The asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed more than 75% of all species on Earth, including all non-avian dinosaurs, triggered...
Constant Tedder
Jun 10, 20216 min read
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The World is Set to Miss Environment-Related UN Sustainable Development Goals- Report
According to a new report, the world is on course to miss the environmental dimensions of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, despite...
Constant Tedder
Jun 8, 20213 min read
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Deforestation Intensifies in Northern DRC Protected Areas
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) contains the bulk of Africa’s humid rainforest. But DRC forests that were once dense,...
Constant Tedder
Jun 4, 20215 min read
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Oil Palm Plantations a ‘Threat to Global Health,’ Says Study on Outbreaks
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised plenty of questions about whether the planet’s declining health is what ails humans. The answer is yes,...
Constant Tedder
Jun 2, 20213 min read
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‘Drastic Forest Development’: Vietnam to Plant 1 Billion Trees- But How?
In October and November of 2020, a relentless barrage of nine typhoons and tropical storms slammed into Vietnam, setting off record...
Constant Tedder
May 28, 202111 min read
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