Coconut palms are king throughout the tropics, serving as the foundation for human lives and cultures across the Pacific Ocean for centuries. However, 200 years of planting by colonial interests ...

Time running out to rescue ‘forgotten forests’ under plantations, charity warns - Woodland Trust is calling on the Government ...

By Ashraful Haque Standing precariously on the slope of a tree-covered hill in Kaptai National Park in southeast Bangladesh, Mohammad Musa was clearing bushes with a machete. Our eyes widened in shock ...

It’s well-known that forest clear-cuts adversely affect stream flows in multiple ways, such as by increasing surface temperatures, damaging water absorbing organisms and causing faster runoffs. Not so ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Indonesia has reported a second straight year of declining deforestation, and credited more stringent land management policies for the trend.

Andrew Hector received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to carry out this research. Charlie Marsh received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to ...

Wildfires show no respect for property lines, but a new analysis of the 2013 Douglas Complex fire in southwestern Oregon concludes that young plantation forests managed by industrial owners ...

Our Southern forests are some of the most biodiverse in the world. They provide aesthetics, tourism, recreation, water filtration, waste treatment, regional climate regulation, and protection from ...

JAKARTA, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Some 200,000 hectares (494,210 acres) of oil palm plantations found in areas designated as forests in Indonesia are expected to be returned to the state to be converted back ...

Protect the animals: Johari (centre) observing the process of taking samples from a tiger during a working visit to the NWRC in Sungkai, Perak. — Bernama SUNGKAI: No new plantation areas will be ...

Set-aside patches of high-quality forest on palm oil plantations may help protect species like orangutans, as well as various species of insects, birds and bats -- many of which are threatened with ...

Comparison of canopy height dynamics in plantations and secondary forests. (A) Violin plots of canopy height in 2019. (B) The regression slope of annual canopy height for 1986 to 2019. (C) The CV of ...