Forests have shifted from absorbing carbon to becoming a net carbon source after 2010 due to extensive losses of tropical ...

Deforestation dropped by 18 percent in two years in African countries where organizations subscribed to receive warnings from a new service using satellites to detect decreases in forest cover in the ...

Africa's forested areas -- an estimated 14 % of the global forest area -- are continuing to decline at an increasing rate -- mostly because of human activities to convert forest land for economic ...

Every year, about 15 billion trees are cut down globally, and across Africa, deforestation rates has surpassed the global annual average of 0.8 percent. Every year, about 15 billion trees are cut down ...

CIFOR-ICRAF receives funding from more than 50 donors, so I am not going to list them all. You can consult our annual financial reports Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty ...

Africa’s great rainforests were long treated as a quiet ally in the climate fight, soaking up vast quantities of carbon ...

The European Union Deforestation-Free Regulation (EUDR) entered into force on June 29, 2023 although its main prohibitions will not take effect until December 30, 2024. The EUDR was introduced to ...

The Republic of Congo had been protecting about half of its dense rainforests via the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) framework. In exchange, the country is ...

Cocoa farmers in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire make less than a dollar a day. And there are almost 2 million of them; the two countries are the world’s largest cocoa producers, supplying two-thirds of the ...

LONDON, Jan 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A system using satellite data to send free alerts when trees are destroyed has been linked to a significant drop in forest losses in Africa, researchers ...

Section of the world map focussing on Africa. Many coloured dots mark the location and type of different forms of land use after deforestation. Africa's forested areas – an estimated 14 % of the ...