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by and - Las comunidad de Santa Clara Uchunya lleva varias generaciones viviendo en una zona remota del Amazonas peruano.
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by Laura Notess, Peter Veit, Iliana Monterroso, Andiko, Emmanuel Sulle, Anne M. Larson, Anne-Sophie Gindroz, Julia Quaedvlieg and Andrew Williams - July 2018Indigenous and community lands, crucial for rural livelihoods, are typically held under informal customary arrangements.
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This infographic allows you to navigate the process for a community seeking formal land rights in Indonesia, versus for a company securing an oil palm concession.
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by Laura Notess and Peter Veit - July 11, 2018The Santa Clara de Uchunya community has lived in a remote section of the Peruvian Amazon for generations, relying on the forest for hunting, fishing and natural resources. But in 2014, someone started cutting down large sections of their ancestral lands. They've been struggling for their land rights ever since.
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by Nancy Harris, Crystal Davis, Elizabeth Dow Goldman, Rachael Petersen and Samantha Gibbes - June 2018This working paper explains how much and why results differ between nationally reported deforestation estimates and the Global Forest Change (GFC) tree cover loss data of Hansen et al. (2013).
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by Mikaela Weisse and Elizabeth Dow Goldman - June 26, 2018The tropics lost 15.8 million hectares of tree cover in 2017, an area the size of Bangladesh. That’s the equivalent of losing 40 football fields of trees every minute for an entire year!
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by Frances Seymour - June 26, 2018Even though more and more companies are committing to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains, the tropics lost a Vietnam-sized area of forest in just the last two years. Why aren't forest protections working?
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by Aurélio Padovezi and Mariana Oliveira - June 21, 2018Brazil's semi-arid Caatinga region is a living laboratory for climate change impacts, with record-breaking droughts from 2010 to 2016. Local farmers are using landscape restoration techniques to boost climate resilience -- and are creating jobs for women in the process.
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by Jonathan Mason and Meaghan Parker-Forney - June 11, 2018DNA evidence often implicates violent criminals. Now it can do the same for poachers harvesting wood from protected forests.
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by Emily Mangan - May 14, 2018China's tariff on U.S. soy could drive production to South America. Without precautions, deforestation could follow.
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by Liz Bourgault - May 03, 2018Sumatra's Leuser Ecosystem is the last place on Earth where rhinos, elephants, sun bears and orangutans live in the wild, but it's threatened by logging, road development poaching and illegal mining. Global Forest Watch works with local partner HAkA to protect this distinctive area's environment.
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by Katie Reytar - April 26, 2018Satellite and other data reveal where restoring degraded landscapes could help improve food security in Malawi.
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by Frances Seymour - April 20, 2018Cinderella’s job in the household included cleaning the ashes from the fireplace – exactly the role forests play for Earth by absorbing fossil fuels' carbon emissions. Yet much like Cinderella, forests remain underappreciated.
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by Thontowi A. Suhada, Bukti Bagja and Shofia Saleh - March 30, 2018Small farmers could be key actors in reforming Indonesia's palm oil industry, which has been linked to child and forced labor, deforestation and the demise of iconic species like orangutans. But they can't do it without support from government and corporations.
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by Frances Seymour - March 21, 2018From clean water provision to storm protection, forests provide benefits for everyone—even those who live in the concrete jungle.
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by Mikaela Weisse and Katie Fletcher - March 20, 2018GLAD alerts on Global Forest Watch can spot changes in forests around the globe, showing forest regions at risk now in Indonesia, Cameroon and Brazil.
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by Kelly Levin, James Mulligan and Gretchen Ellison - March 19, 2018Most climate change solutions focus on mitigation—ways to slash emissions as quickly as possible, such as by adopting renewable energy. But research shows these aren't enough. To prevent the worst impacts of climate change, the world will need to reach net-negative emissions, a point at which we're actually removing more carbon from the air than we're putting in.
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by Natasha Ferrari, Ornanong Maneerattana and Assumpta Uwamariya - March 13, 2018Drought is fueling water shortages and food insecurity in Karangazi, Rwanda. Jean Baptise Mutabaruka knows that planting trees would help his community, but he's struggled to find funding.
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by Rod Taylor - February 28, 2018Forested nations like Gabon are just starting to develop commodities like palm oil. But as more companies commit to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains, will Gabon get left behind?
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by Frances Seymour and Tjokorda Nirarta "Koni" Samadhi - January 29, 2018Indonesia’s Geospatial Information Agency will announce results this week of a competition for mapping the nation’s peat. The winning team will receive $1 million. The world will receive the information it needs to start protecting these carbon-rich wetlands.