Tree-planting campaigns can reduce, not improve biodiversity, shows study
Tree plantations can contradict the real purpose of planting trees, according to the study
Biodiversity governance: A mix of knowledge and forest management for benefit sharing
People’s biodiversity register a roadmap for forest management plans; it documents knowledge of status, history, ongoing changes and …
Biodiversity governance: Access and benefit sharing and its implications on agricultural resources
A special instrument for access to crop genetic resources, access and benefit sharing (ABS) system, is fraught with challenges
Biodiversity governance: The agreements and laws that help enforce it
Major legally binding conventions to protect nature were adopted at the Rio Summit where several countries came together amid rapidly …
Halt deforestation by 2030: Are we on track to meet global pledge?
Brazil was the world’s largest contributor to deforestation in 2021
Illegal logging in Africa is a threat to security
Illegal logging happens here through small-scale and commercial operations
Climate change may cause up to 38% decline of low & mid latitude deodar trees
Droughts and heat stress may also cause infestation in trees, research notes
Green nod to 87 development projects in 2 years; 2.3 million trees to be felled: MoEFCC
Of these infrastructure projects, three highway projects will fall in Protected Areas
Bill Gates is not entirely wrong about trees. He’s not entirely right either
The billionaire recently claimed planting trees would have little effect on climate change