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by - Rodrigue Katembo remporté le Goldman Environmental Award pour sa défense du Parc National des Virunga.
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by Molly Bergen - May 17, 2017Ranger 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.
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by Betsy Otto and Suzanne Ozment - May 16, 2017This 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.
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by Bo Li - May 02, 2017A new free trade agreement lacks common-sense protections for forests that help power Asian economies.
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by Charles Victor Barber and Meaghan Parker-Forney - April 07, 2017Scientific advances in wood identification are improving chances of catching illegal loggers endangering the world’s most threatened rainforests.
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by Nancy Harris, Richard Waite and Katie Lyons - April 04, 2017Agriculture and forestry offer great opportunities to help create the lower-carbon economy envisioned in the Paris Agreement, but these two sectors were largely overlooked in a new decarbonization roadmap published in the journal Science. That needs to change to reap the benefits of forest and landscape restoration.
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by Jessica Webb, Carole Excell and Rachael Petersen - March 22, 2017A critical way to protect forests is to determine how well companies are complying with concessions agreements that allow them to work on forested government land. Finding this out can be a challenge. A new WRI study shows Freedom of Information laws can help.
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by Jessica Webb, Rachael Petersen, Elizabeth Moses, Carole Excell, Mikaela Weisse, Liz Bourgault and Sam Szoke-Burke - March 2017This working paper gives an overview of the availability of information for land concessions in 14 forested countries, with a special focus on open spatial information. More specifically, this paper examines the legal framework for granting concessions, laws governing the disclosure of spatial concessions data, and the completeness and quality of concessions data in each country.
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by Andres Chamorro, Susan Minnemeyer and Sarah Sargent - February 16, 2017Nearly all forest fires in Indonesia are human-caused. New data reveals where they've ignited over the past 15 years, shedding light on how to squelch the problem.
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by Susan Minnemeyer, Elizabeth Dow Goldman and Nancy Harris - February 07, 2017New analysis shows what effect forest management policies are having in Indonesia, Brazil and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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by Rod Taylor - January 30, 2017It's not enough to merely commit to deforestation-free supply chains. Businesses should keep their eyes on the real prize: prosperous and productive rural economies.
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by Nancy Harris, Samantha Gibbes and Peter Potapov - January 24, 2017The world's intact forest landscapes, vast swaths of unbroken wilderness largely unaffected by human activity, are shrinking. That's troubling because these regions are key to fighting climate change.
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by Susan Minnemeyer, Peter Potapov and Lars Laestadius - January 17, 2017Intact forest landscapes (IFLs), or vast stretches of unbroken forest wilderness, are some of the most important ecosystems in the world. The fact that the world lost an area of IFLs twice the size of California over the past decade spells trouble for nature, the climate and human well-being.
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by Yiyuan Qin and Todd Gartner - January 12, 2017Israel is joining a global movement towards holistic forest management that values ecosystem services.
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by Helen Ding, Rachel Biderman and Sophie Boehm - December 23, 2016Grappling with Brazil's longest recession since the 1930s, government officials are under enormous pressure to combat rising unemployment, address corruption and control inflation. Yet two recent bills designed to solve the problem are misguided attempts that could degrade the environment, diminish human rights and hurt the economy.
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by Susan Minnemeyer - December 14, 2016The recent forest fire in the Great Smoky Mountains is tragic, but it’s hardly unique. It mirrors a spate of unusual fires that have devastated many parts of the world over the past two years—blazes that may become more common as climate change increases temperatures.
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by Rachel Biderman and Ruth Nogueron - December 09, 2016The Brazilian government announced an unforeseen increase in deforestation last week -- a 29 percent rise in 2016 compared to the previous year -- at a time when the nation has been seeking to eliminate deforestation in the Amazon as part of its plan to curb climate change, conserve biodiversity and protect indigenous rights.
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by Spencer Knowles - December 01, 2016Our podcast team sat down with Chip Barber and Austin Clowes of the Forest Legality Initiative to learn how to build a sustainable guitar.
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by Austin Clowes - November 30, 2016The best guitar necks are made of mahogany, and the most sustainable guitar companies are finding innovative ways to source the wood without destroying its stock.