John C. Cannon

A regional court in Loreto, Peru recently ruled that the clearing of more than 2,000 hectares of forest ...

The rights of local and indigenous peoples aren't being adequately protected in the drive for economic development, according ...

Africa’s people, forests and wildlife are in trouble if the mostly unbridled expansion of oil palm in West ...

Cameroon is struggling to make progress in combatting illegal logging. Regulatory budgets are too thin to protect the ...

Borneo consistently makes the list of the world's "biodiversity hotspots" – areas full of a wide variety of ...

A cacao grower with roots in Southeast Asia's palm oil industry has set up shop in the Peruvian ...

The rainforests of South America face many threats. The deforestation occurring on the continent is among the highest ...

The views of the people who live in forests around the world often get swamped in the debate ...

There’s little doubt that the use of palm oil is expanding rapidly throughout the world, and with it ...

The United Nations Climate Summit at the end of September saw a host of governments, agencies and organizations ...

Climate change is likely to alter how we humans grow adequate amounts of food for a swelling global ...

A joint force of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and government authorities are in the midst of carrying ...

Nearly 50 percent of tropical deforestation to make room for commercial agriculture between 2000 and 2012 was done ...