by Gary Chandler | Jun 2, 2018 | Reforestation, Sustainable Agriculture
Deforestation Driving Poverty, Migration, Conflict Every year, 12 million hectares of land are degraded because of drought and desertification. The Food and Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations hopes to reverse that trend and return land to agriculture...
by Gary Chandler | Apr 10, 2018 | Amazon Basin, Deforestation, Forest Conservation
Court Demands Halt To Amazon Deforestation By Anastasia Moloney, Thomson Reuters Foundation Colombia’s highest court told the government to take urgent action to protect its Amazon rainforest and stem rising deforestation, in what campaigners said was an historic...
by Gary Chandler | Apr 1, 2017 | Deforestation, Forest Conservation, Sustainable Agriculture
Deforestation Threatens Biodiversity Today is the International Day of Forests. Deforestation is a major contributor to global warming, wildlife extinction, droughts and other threats to life as we know it. Forests are the most biologically-diverse ecosystems on land,...