High-resolution satellite imagery has been used to map every single tree in Africa, demonstrating a technique that could help improve the monitoring of deforestation across the world. Florian Reiner ...

Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more resilient to climate change. They take up 23% of the continent. At 674 million ...

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 ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 13% of biodiversity and represents approximately 20% of the world’s forests. Protected areas play an essential role in protecting biodiversity and ecosystems. Since the ...

The likelihood that you use products with palm oil is pretty high: the ingredient is in half of all products on supermarket shelves, in everything from ice cream and lipstick to shampoo and laundry ...

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 ...

Deforestation in Africa continues to outpace restoration efforts and is fast approaching a tipping point. To avoid reaching it, delegates at COP30 must adopt a more proactive and comprehensive ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Long-running evictions of Indigenous Ogiek communities from Kenya’s Mau Forest, whom the government blames for deforestation, haven’t led to any ...

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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 ...