The UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), which ended over the weekend in Cali, Colombia, was supposed to establish a financing ...

Dear friends of the rainforests, Next week, leaders, scientists, and advocates from around the world will gather in Cali, Colombia, for the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16). This crucial meeting ...

Great news from the world’s second largest rainforest: The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) canceled the auction of 27 oil concessions! Local communities and environmental ...

After years of boycotts and awareness campaigns by environmentalists, tropical timber products had for a long time become synonymous with exploitation and plunder. As a result, their sales figures ...

Biofuels have been a hot topic for some time now. They have been heralded as the solution to humanity’s energy problem and savior of the world’s climate. The business world is drawn by the promise of ...

Biofuels, Europe’s supposedly “green” alternative to fossil fuels, is wreaking havoc in the tropics: industrial-scale palm oil plantations are ravaging nature and robbing people of their land. Our ...