Environment / Forests

Report on the decimation of Tasmania’s old growth forest by Nick Dowson.

From slavery to mass deforestation, Leonardo Sakamoto highlights the devastating impact of cattle ranching in Brazil.

Want to restore and protect the world’s forests? Then uphold the rights of the people who live in them, says Danny Chivers.

Update on the Los Cedros Protected Forest by Jan Goodey.

Report from northern Brazil by Matthew Ponsford.

In 2013, New Internationalist travelled to Mozambique to meet communities pushing back against expanding forestry plantations. Five years on, Nils Adler finds foreign companies have yet to deliver on promises to local farmers.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger unveils the hidden bio-chemistry of trees.

Forest communities are under siege in Cambodia, says Fran Lambrick.

Facts and figures about trees and forests, from carbon control to biodiversity.

Sustainable forestry may be an oxymoron. Chris Lang finds some holes in the system.

Escaping the pressures of modern life in Japan. By Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons.

It happens every year: thousands of hectares of Indonesian rainforest are torched to clear land for palm oil, timber and other agribusiness operations. It’s a perfect storm of destruction. Nithin Coca reports from Sumatra.

The world’s last great woodlands are fast disappearing – with untold consequences for the environment and for us. Time to stop the destruction, argues Wayne Ellwood.

Millions of hectares of forest are threatened by coal mining, warns Saskia Ozinga.

Justin Kenrick meets with Sengwer community's Yator Kiptum and Milka Chepkorir about the meaning of climate justice.

Fran Lambrick on a community determined to protect its forest.

Esme McAvoy is in the Amazon to find out what’s happening to the Yasuní proposal.

The fight is on to end illegal logging in the uniquely biodiverse ancient forests of Madagascar