Tag: deforestation
EU’s Deforestation- Free Law
In a bid to fight climate change and biodiversity loss, the European Parliament struck a deal with the Member countries on a...
Main-Streaming Biodiversity Helps Forest Protection
With around 10 million hectares lost to deforestation each year, mainly for agricultural expansion, main-streaming biodiversity in production forests is of paramount...
Less Rain Leads to Fast Death of Amazon
With about 17 per cent or more of the Amazon Rain forest lost, the forest is going to lose a major chunk...
Forest Area Per Capita Decreased By Over 60%
In the last 60 years, the forest area across the world declined by 81.7 million hectares, which comes to more than 60...
Greener world; 59 million hectares of Forest regrown
The world saw a re-growth of about 59 million hectares of forest since 2000, which clearly indicates a sign of a healthy environment coming...
Rate of forest loss declined in the last three decades
Despite some 178 million hectares of forest lost worldwide over the past three decades, the rate of loss has declined substantially during this period,...
Protecting forest gains momentum with Covid showing its importance
The United Nations has called for urgent steps to safeguard the biodiversity of the forests in the wake of deforestation and degradation happening in...
More Covid like diseases likely as more forest habitats are turned...
Man is increasingly converting the forests into agriculture lands. Men venture into the forests for food while animals venture out of the forests looking...
