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'Illegal loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers arrive once roads are bulldozed into rainforests.'

In the last decade, Indonesia has made significant progress in halting the loss of its forests. But the election of military man Prabowo Subianto as president is raising concerns that a boom in mining nickel, used in EV batteries, could lead to a new wave of deforestati...

A massive effort to 'hand-map' undocumented roads has revealed the staggering extent of illegal or informal thoroughfares cut through forests of Indonesia, Malaysia, and New Guinea.

Roads are being built at an unprecedented rate across the globe. Some 25 million kilometers (15.5 million miles) of paved roads are expected to be built in just the four decades leading up to 2050 — enough to wrap around the equator more than 600 times. But much of this construction is happening under the […]

What harm can a road do? Plenty. Once built, illegal roads let loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers into the jungle, and the felling begins.

Political shifts in Brazil and Colombia have “had a significant impact on tree felling” with large reductions in deforestation, and more nature news this fortnight.

Our research, however, found funding decisions were largely driven by simplistic “value for money” considerations such as the cost of each tree. This undermined the benefits for both threatened species and the climate.

A much-touted scheme to plant 20 million trees nationwide was driven by cost factors not outcomes for threatened...

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National's latest policy brainstorm is to print out and mail to every taxpayer information they could obtain by using Google and MyIRD.