Having finished with its logging, the companies built canals to dry the waterlogged peat and make way for plantation farming of cash crops.
Abdul Agus Nuraini, Muara Siran community member, speaks during the Forum's plenary session on community perspectives and priorities in peatlands.
Scientists have recently discovered the existence of huge, previously unknown areas of peatland in central Africa and South America.
The DRC has the biggest forest in Central Africa. The peatland discovered in the Central Basin is important for its significant biodiversity.
As part of the Bonn Challenge, some 40 countries, sub-national jurisdictions, and non-governmental entities have pledged to restore forest landscapes.
Did you check the weather forecast for today? Digital-services providers have created tailor-made, agro-climatic information products for farmers.
Not widely known, peat is the world’s largest terrestrial organic soil carbon stock. Peatlands are found on every continent and in most countries.
Anyone who has walked outside on a sunny day knows that forests and trees matter for temperature, humidity and wind speed. Planting trees speaks to concerns about climate change, but the directly important aspects of the tree-climate relationships have so far been overlooked in climate policy where it relates to forest. That, at least, is […]
On the 2017 World Wildlife Day, we held a Q&A session on twitter and learned from our social media community about wildlife in landscapes.
Nepal is a leader in returning forest tenure rights to locals, but regulations undermine communities’ attempts to establish businesses from forest products.
The successful Brazilian experience in slowing down deforestation for cattle ranching in the Amazon has captured a lot of attention in the global arena.
At the GLF we have been empowering women to be be bold and take leadership in creating the beautiful, equitable and sustainable landscapes of tomorrow.
Convergence offers grant funding for practitioners to design innovative blended finance instruments that address a key development need.
‘Green bonds’ currently have the same return as regular corporate bonds, and the same credit-worthiness requirements.
IUCN’s GFCCP has launched a call for abstracts on “Achieving deforestation-free commitments through forest landscape restoration.”