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Forests for climate and development

  • Indonesia forest clearing

    How to stop deforestation: 'Indigenous people are the best park rangers'

    Trees soak up greenhouse gases, so how do we ensure their protection? Our experts offer seven ideas for the conservation and restoration of forests
  • A western lowland gorilla in Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic

    Q&A: Forests soak up greenhouse gases, so how do we ensure their protection?

    Join a panel of experts from 2.30-4pm on Thursday 30 March to discuss the resources needed to fight deforestation
  • POUSO DE ROCHEDO, BRAZIL - MARCH 04, 2017: Antonio Vicente. He has spent the last 40 years reforesting his land, bringing life back to an area that was razed for cattle grazing.

    The man who planted a tree and grew a whole family of forests

    As Brazil’s deforestation begins to climb again, one man has spent over 40 years planting a forest of his own
  • A young Cambodian sits atop one of countless logs piled in a forest.

    'I could be arrested or killed': the activists fighting to save Cambodia's forests

    Timber tycoons are collaborating with Cambodian officials to strip Prey Lang forest. John Vidal meets the activists risking their lives to stop deforestation
  • Deforestation area in Maranhão on November 29, 2011

    Beauty and destruction: the state of the Amazon rainforest – in pictures

    For a decade local photographer Rodrigo Baleia has documented the beauty and destruction of the Amazon basin from above
  • Likouala-aux-Herbes river near in Congo-Brazzaville.

    We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years

    John Vidal
    At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them
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