Blog Posts: forests

The struggle for land rights has left many Indonesians on the outside looking in.

Lawrence MacDonald sits down with Gita Syahrani and Adi Pradana to learn about their work on the OneMap.

Companies from Kenya to the United States are making money by restoring degraded forests and landscapes.

The Paris Agreement is the best instrument for addressing threats to development posed by climate change, such as forest fires, extreme weather and more. The U.S. withdrawal from the agreement is reckless.

Six years after Indonesia passed a forest moratorium aimed at slowing unsustainable agricultural expansion into primary forests and peatlands, tree cover loss remains high, according to the latest satellite data from the University of Maryland and Google, available now on Global Forest Watch.

Restored landscapes deliver both income and capital gains.

Thanks to high-resolution satellite images, researchers discovered the equivalent of another Amazon rainforest in the world's deserts and drylands.

Rodrigue Katembo remporté le Goldman Environmental Award pour sa défense du Parc National des Virunga.

Ranger Rodrigue Katembo risked his life to protect wildlife from oil developers in Virunga National Park—even wearing a hidden camera and pretending to accept bribes. He recently shared his incredible story with WRI.

This Infrastructure Week, it's time to look beyond building new pipes and pumps. Growing, restoring and preserving America's "natural infrastructure" like forests can help secure clean water supplies.