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    Forests
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    Forests
    Insights
    June 24, 2025

    Protecting Naturally Regrowing Forests Is a Crucial — and Overlooked — Climate Solution

    • Forests
    • carbon removal
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • nature-based solutions
    People walking through a forest partially regrown after a fire.
    • Forests
    • carbon removal
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • nature-based solutions
    Forests
    Europe
    Technical Perspectives
    June 10, 2024

    Unpacking the EU Deforestation Regulation’s Legal Production Requirement

    • deforestation
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forest Legality
    Trucks carry timber from the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil.
    • deforestation
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forest Legality
    Forests
    Insights
    February 29, 2024

    Complex Supply Chains Are Still a Major Barrier to Ending Deforestation

    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • data
    • agriculture
    • forest products
    • corporate sustainability
    • commodities
    Plantation worker watching as a truck unloads freshly harvested oil palm branches.
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • data
    • agriculture
    • forest products
    • corporate sustainability
    • commodities
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    June 17, 2022

    How Tracking Timber Helps Prevent Illegal Logging and Deforestation

    • Forest Legality
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • illegal logging
    Worker with hardhat stands in front of timber pile at the Luke Paper Mill and Woodlands site.
    • Forest Legality
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    January 10, 2020

    10 Big Changes for Forests Over the Last Decade

    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • biodiversity
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • biodiversity
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Forests
    Research
    August 24, 2018

    Sourcing Legally Produced Wood

    Forests
    North America
    Insights
    June 11, 2018

    DNA Testing Can Save Trees from Illegal Logging – and You Can Help

    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • deforestation
    • biodiversity
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Moss-covered bigleaf maple trees in the Hoh Rainforest
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • deforestation
    • biodiversity
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Asia
    Insights
    January 3, 2018

    Indonesia Has a Carrot to End Illegal Logging; Now It Needs a Stick

    • Business
    • deforestation
    • illegal logging
    Indonesian sawmill
    • Business
    • deforestation
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    April 7, 2017

    Rainforest CSI: How We’re Catching Illegal Loggers with DNA, Machine Vision and Chemistry

    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Stack of wood logs
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    February 23, 2017

    Guitar Industry Grapples with Trade Restrictions on Rosewood, One of its Most Prized Timbers

    • Business
    • illegal logging
    • Business
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    December 1, 2016

    PODCAST: The Sounds of Sustainability

    • building a sustainable guitar
    • podcasts
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Credit: Flickr/Javier Morales
    • building a sustainable guitar
    • podcasts
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    November 30, 2016

    Building a Sustainable Guitar: Mahogany

    • building a sustainable guitar
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    A twisting branch of mahogany
    • building a sustainable guitar
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Asia
    Insights
    October 28, 2016

    Reflections on Leonardo DiCaprio’s New Climate Change Film, Before the Flood

    • Climate
    • floods
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Business
    • climate change
    • illegal logging
    • commodities
    Young orangutan
    • Climate
    • floods
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Business
    • climate change
    • illegal logging
    • commodities
    Forests
    Insights
    October 17, 2016

    UN Issues New Protections for Rosewood Trees, the “Ivory of the Forest”

    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Rosewood stockpile
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    Insights
    October 5, 2016

    Building a Sustainable Guitar: Rosewood

    • building a sustainable guitar
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Fender P Bass guitar
    • building a sustainable guitar
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Forests
    North America
    Insights
    September 15, 2016

    Building a Sustainable Guitar: Maple

    • building a sustainable guitar
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Bigleaf maple forest.
    • building a sustainable guitar
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
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