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With over five million people, Ghana’s Northern Savannah Zone is home to the country’s poorest regions where many people make a living from subsistence farming. This area, dominated by shea landscapes, faces an alarming rate of deforestation and...

Kenya’s forests underpin the productivity of key economic sectors in the country, including agriculture, horticulture, tourism, wildlife and energy. This productivity accounts for 3.5 percent of the country’s GDP and contributes about US$64 million...

Côte d'Ivoire has one of the highest rates of deforestation in Africa, estimated at 2.69% annually. Deforestation is mainly attributable to agriculture (62%), with cocoa, rubber and palm oil in the lead, followed by illegal logging and firewood...

Get inspired by Chebet to commemorate this year's International Women's Day. When Chebet Lesan received the Queen’s Young Leaders Awards from Queen Elisabeth 2 at Buckingham Palace in 2017, it wasn’t her first, or her last, award. Before that, she...

Fancy having two tongues. One to eat and another to groom your friends and pick out tasty insects from their fur. That’s lemurs for you. And what about spending most of your life hanging upside down in the trees, even giving birth up there? That’s...

Tabi Joda grew up in the forest, spending hours playing with his friends among the trees that lined the Mambila Plateau between Cameroon and Nigeria. But as they got older, there were fewer trees to climb amid a widespread and ruinous deforestation...

“Local communities have to be involved in decisions about forests that affect their livelihoods,” says Tecla Chumba, a Kenyan woman from the Lembus tribe and mother of four. She set up a community forest association and asked the Kenya Forest Service...

The Republic of Equatorial Guinea has achieved a new milestone in its political commitment to preserve its forests and fight climate change, while promoting a sustainable development model. Read more

Local participation has been found to have positive implications for various aspects of REDD+, and forest monitoring is no exception. To maximise local people’s involvement in forest monitoring and the assessment of social impacts, the Government of...

Tsavo region is known for its dry spells. It is no easy place for people and cattle to survive or make a living. One day, an American businessman who came to do a safari in Kenya fell in love with its wildlife but noticed the difficulties the...