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Across the Lower Mekong region, a new trend for timber trade is emerging. Latest statistics from the International Tropical Timber Organization show that there is less demand for high-value species such as Rosewood, while the demand for rubber and...

Indonesia occupies less than 1% of the earth’s land but is home to the third largest expanse of tropical forest in the world after the Amazon and the Congo Basin. These forests are home to an estimated 10 to 15% of all animal and plant species on the...

UNEP, through the Tropical Landscape Finance Facility (TLFF) and UN-REDD, has been supporting TNP2K, a national poverty reduction program in Indonesia, to unlock the potential of the food sector to achieve national economic growth targets while also...

As extreme weather events become more regular, climate change has an increasingly significant impact on people’s livelihoods in Bali. With an economy based primarily on tourism, extreme weather events, and now the ongoing pandemic, have threatened...

A hotspot for tropical forests and biodiversity, the Lower Mekong Region (LMR) has become in the last decades a hotspot for deforestation. Between 1990-2015, the region lost about 4.7 million hectares of forest, as a result of logging, mining, and...

Papua New Guinea’s lush forests boast some of the greatest plant and animal diversity on earth. From high-altitude montane forests to jungle and mangroves, from flying foxes and ‘forest dragons’ to thousands of species of orchids, they are living...