James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to ...

2009). Although large areas of tropical forest have been cleared during the last 20 years and extensive deforestation continues in some regions, there has been an increase in tropical secondary ...

The harvesting and burning of forest biomass to produce energy continues to surge, according to a new report on near-term ...

Cloud forests are biodiversity hot spots and crucial water sources. But climate change and deforestation are shrinking their range, new data show.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a new fund to improve the sustainability of leather supply chains and protect ...

WWF works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife, collaborating with partners from local to global levels in nearly 100 countries.

Tropical rainforests are hot and wet ... There are many causes of rainforest deforestation, which leads to loss of habitats, soil erosion, flooding and global warming. International agreements ...

The research team found that, taken together, all the cutting over the study period amounted to 186,000 hectares of deforestation over 14 locations, both on private and protected lands.