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China’s fascination with rosewood furniture dates back thousands of years. With its red color attributed to luck, rosewood furniture is considered a prized cultural investment handed down over generations. But after wiping out its rosewood supply...

Gelam forests I nternational sanctions imposed over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine have curbed timber supplies from Russia and Belarus. According to industry figures, Russia and Belarus account for nearly 25 percent of the worldwide timber trade. The...

Forest conservation is in itself one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time and yet one of the most threatened by illegal business practices and corrupt activities. Yearly the world loses around 5 million hectares of forest, 95% of...

Woman working in the rice paddies (@AIPP) A new study reveals that Nationally Determined Contributions, a cornerstone of the international framework aimed at addressing climate change, are likely to fail unless indigenous peoples’ rights to their...

The contribution of REDD+ in Peru - the second country with the largest extension of Amazonian forests - goes far beyond mitigating climate change. It also considers the important role that forests play in the resilience of biophysical and...