New research shows that protected forests with dense canopies are warming more slowly than nearby forests without protection, which buffers plant and animals living near the ground from global warming ...

Discussions at the Forum will take into account the 2017 theme of the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), ‘Eradicating Poverty and Promoting Prosperity in a Changing World ...

The programme, organised by the Forest Department in a remote forest village of Koderma, saw participants tying sacred threads to trees after performing rituals at a forest altar ...

Following a collaboration with the Natural Capital Project, based at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Belize updated its national contributions in 2021 under the Paris Climate Change ...

Voluntary corporate investments will play a role, among other financial instruments, in protecting tropical forests, but we need guidance that can increase the integrity and legitimacy of these ...

The United States should immediately move to create a collection of strategic forest reserves in the Western U.S. to fight climate change and safeguard biodiversity, according to a scientific ...

The protection and restoration of forests has major implications for the world’s climate, biodiversity and economic and societal development. But high-level commitments — such as those made by 141 ...

A study has found that worldwide protected forests have an additional 9.65 billion metric tons of carbon stored in their above-ground biomass compared to ecologically similar unprotected areas. A ...

At the end of the 4th Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE), WWF re-emphasises the urgent need for credible steps towards better forest protection in Europe.

Similar offences in protected forests carry penalties of up to five years' imprisonment and fines of up to Rs1 million.