Topic: forests

In December 2010, over 50 U.S. natural resource practitioners and experts joined the Northern Forests Watershed Incentive Project’s second annual webinar, which provided an overview of the project and covered successes to date.

2010 was a significant year for global efforts to tackle illegal logging. Here’s a look back on some of that progress.

WRI President Jonathan Lash previews the key environmental issues to watch in 2011.

The following interview with Craig Hanson and Moray McLeish was conducted and compiled by Jeremy Hance and Rhett A. Butler for mongabay.com and is reposted with permission. Read the entire piece here on the Mongabay website.

How does the new agreement on REDD set the stage for halting the destruction and degradation of forests?

An update on the role of forests and REDD+ in the international climate negotiations.

As a result of rapid development over the last 40 years, the vast majority of land in the southern U.S. has been in some way impacted by humans.