Land use change

Land use change

From a new BBC series to a black-and-white photo esssay of African lions, here are the top 10 Landscape News stories on biodiversity from 2019.

Top 10 stories on initiatives working behind the scenes to build and sustain livelihoods in harmony with nature.

From the adoption of a new U.N. Decade to efforts happening in local communities around the globe, here's our pick of 2019's top stories on restoration.

A quick rundown on our planet’s ecosystems

How well are countries meeting their Bonn Challenge commitments? It’s hard to tell – but a new reporting protocol aims to provide more concrete answers.

In this news roundup: Germany bets on hydrogen, IPCC warns of impending food crisis, and blockchains ensure ethical cobalt in electric cars.

A landscape approach aims to reconcile competing objectives for allocating and managing land to achieve social, economic and environmental success.

The region’s countries could gain 19 million hectares of forests by 2050 if all goes well – or they could end up losing 5 million hectares.

In the ‘Serengeti of Southeast Asia’, the Prey Lang smartphone app helps Indigenous communities in Cambodia expose and record illegal logging.

By Lai Sanders, Rights and Resources Initiative This article was originally published at Intercontinental Cry. The evidence is clear: Indigenous Peoples and local communities have long been the backbone of the world’s environmental protection efforts, safeguarding what remains of our planet’s precious forests and natural resources despite mounting threats to their lands and their lives. […]

1 million species at risk due to human activity

A primer on five countries’ conditions in climate change

Better ways to ‘space out’

The 2016 Global Landscapes Forum has just closed with an announcement that Germany will host the Forum in Bonn as of next year. Here is what our co-coordinator, Natalia Cisneros had to say in her closing plenary address (video will be available soon).   “Dinesh is a young Nepali agriculturalist. He’s developed an online mentoring program […]

While the importance of carbon stored by forests is widely recognized, carbon stored by trees on agricultural land has been much ignored.