‘The Congo more climate-resilient than Amazonia? Jury is still out’

Down To Earth speaks to Elsa Ordway from UCLA about a 10-year study on the ecology of tropical forests in the Congo Basin and other parts of …

Hunting has affected more than half of tropical forests: Study

Scientists in the Netherlands find a 70 per cent decline in mammal population in Western Africa, which is the biggest in the world

When the water begins to stink

...Yet another rainforest disappears and a way of life dies as "development" catches up with the Guaranis of Paraguay

Up in smoke

Illegal marijuana cultivation leads to a systematic butchering of the rich rainforests of Kerala

Unclean paper

Publishing>> Rainforests • Indonesia

Going, going

Vanishing scrub jungle

Unwanted custom

Fund freeze

Shrinking cover

Tropical forests remain the focus of sustained felling

Gasping for breath

Entire tree species face the threat of extinction from the increasing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide

Deforestation galore

Teak gets a saviour

An Australian tree offers wood that can replace teak for furniture

GABON

CAMBODIA

Antirainforests

Veggie ants are a dangerous lot

Global Forest Resource Assessment: Tropical forests the size of Europe lost in first 20 years of this century

Deforestation slowed by 30% in 2010-18; cropland, oil palm plantation and grazing biggest drivers of deforestation

The earth likely holds more than 9,000 undiscovered tree species; and they are in danger

Undiscovered tree species are more likely to be present in in tropical and subtropical dry forests, which are threatened by development projects

Growing appetite for charcoal destroying Nigeria's tropical forests

The top producer of crude oil in Africa is exporting cheaply made charcoal to the world, especially EU, which is often labelled incorrectly as '…

From reservations to recognition

Pushed onto reservations and almost forgotten, the indigenous people of the world have finally got onto the international environmental agenda.…

Pact of devastation

France has agreed to cancel part of the debt it is owed by Cameroon in return for the right to destroy the country's rainforests

We can't regard forests as something without human presence

RUBENS RICUPERO, 57, Brazil's suave and diplomatic minister for environment, has an unenviable job: charting the destiny of the beleaguered …

REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Under stress

Biodiversity at risk in protected forest areas

Amazon, a click away

Maps>> Rainforest • Brazil