News Citizen Scientists Aiding Species Conservation Efforts 🧪 “The real challenge isn’t gathering the data—it’s how we use it to inform extinction risk assessments”
Spotlight Data Shows Indonesian Social Forestry Excludes Women 📊🌳 Indonesia's social forestry policies aim for inclusivity, yet women remain underrepresented in management, deepening inequalities.
News Prosecutors Request Halt to Amazon Carbon Projects 🛑 According to the state government, the initiatives will be executed only “if they strictly follow what is decided by the community and the parameters set out in the public notice.”
Spotlight Data Looks at ESG Goals for Companies 0️⃣ Analysis of SBTi’s progress data, which includes all companies that had set a target by 2022 for which SBTi has emissions data, reveals that companies are cutting their emissions by a median annual rate of 5.4%.
Spotlight Longleaf Pine Forests Increasing Coastal Georgia Reforestation of the longleaf pine in Georgia protects the habitat of species such as gopher tortoises and red-cockaded woodpeckers.
Spotlight Small Farmers Revive Brazil’s Forests on Palm Oil Land 🌱 The locally led restoration projects are up to 20 times more likely to create lasting impacts than those by NGO's or Government.
News Planting Forests to Fight Droughts & Floods in Brazil 🇧🇷 Borges and Curcio say Brazil lacks the federal political will to take the country’s numerous restoration projects from a fragmented, small-scale approach to broad public policy that could be applied and enforced countrywide.
News G20: Minister Highlights the Role of Agroecology 🌾 The minister reinforced that the agroforestry program gives priority to the recovery of the vegetation of the settlements created in the Amazon during the military dictatorship.
Spotlight Carbon Projects Boom in DRC, But Are Communities Protected? 🌿 Moretti said the allure of carbon credits has enticed not just private companies like KMS, but also “a lot of development actors, NGOs and even government officials”.
Spotlight Mass Data Haul Reveals Life after Wildfire There are several ways frequent fire before the megafires could allow species to increase.
Spotlight Governments Must Tackle Climate Disinformation, Experts Urge Therefore, more proactive, clear, accurate and effective communication efforts are consistently and repeatedly needed.
News Venezuelan Forest Research Faces Crisis Amid Collapse 🌳 The fragmentation of political control is also taking a toll on Amazonian research in Venezuela.