While many people tacitly appreciate the intrinsic and aesthetic value forests and trees provide, governments and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. There are several activities that are affecting forests and ...

In northeastern Gabon, the community of Massaha used participatory mapping to document ancestral villages, sacred sites and traditional land use inside a rainforest slated for industrial logging.

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering with Michael Coe, a senior scientist and tropical forest ...

In Awisa, a village in western Ghana’s cocoa belt, footpaths of red earth wind from small houses to a shallow, muddy hole in ...

Traditional institutions such as the Dorbar Shnong and the Hima continue to play central roles in enforcing community norms ...

We’ll hear more from Ann Vileisis, mayor of Port Orford, which received one of the grants. We’ll also learn about community forests more broadly from Dylan Kruse, president of the conservation ...

Renata Piazzon, CEO of the Instituto Arapyaú, is one of Brazil’s leading voices for aligning conservation with economic development, arguing that protecting forests and improving livelihoods must go ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – Two Bay State bills would set aside forest and water preserving land to remain untouched space by redesignating areas formerly under municipal management as parks or reserves. One ...

Each year, Justin Lindholm uses about two-and-a-half gallons of gasoline to get through the winter. It’s just enough, he said, to power his chainsaw to chop the four to five cords of logs that fuel ...