How a system designed to protect the world’s biggest rainforest is funding businesses with a track record of illegal ...

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The palm oil industry, illegal logging and deforestation by small-scale farmers in West-Central Africa are also decimating the rainforests in the Congo Basin.

Across the U.S., ten states are losing forest land faster than ever due to logging, wildfires, and development. From ...

200 million acres of forest cover have been lost since 1960 “Unprecedented” logging, mining, and agricultural expansion are razing forests faster than they can replenish, report finds.

Videos show inside Brazil's latest campaign to combat deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, Operation Maravlha. 01:50 - Source: CNN. World News 22 videos. Video Ad Feedback. See agents deploy ...

The Trump administration has paved the way for massive deforestation in the US by ending Clinton-era rules that protected 58 ...

An advocacy group for Indigenous peoples has released photographs of a reclusive tribe's members searching for food on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon, calling it evidence that logging concessions ...

Deforestation occurs when forests are converted—typically through logging, natural disasters, wildfire, and mining—to non-forest uses, often agriculture, logging, road construction, and urban ...

In terms of human activity, 22.4% was lost due to logging. According to Global Forest Watch, logging is a driver of “temporary disturbance” rather than a deforestation driver. In 2024, the EU was ...