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Poor governance fuels ‘horrible dynamic’ of deforestation in DRC by Victoria Schneider on 21 December 2020 Forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been disappearing at increasing speed, with annual deforestation rates exceeding 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) in the past five years and believed to have surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Poor governance and corruption are considered the biggest obstacles to protecting the country’s forests from the pressures of subsistence agriculture and fuelwood collection, as well as the expansion of legal and illegal industri...

 E-Mail In 2006, Greenpeace launched a campaign exposing deforestation caused by soy production in the Brazilian Amazon. In the previous year, soy farming expanded into more than 1,600 square kilometers of recently cleared forests. The destruction, they said, had to stop. In response, major soy companies in the region reached a landmark agreement as signatories to the Amazon Soy Moratorium (ASM), pledging not to purchase crops grown on recently cleared land. Deforestation fell in the following years, but no one had measured the moratorium's aggregate impact. Now, assistant professor Robert H...

Kazakhstan to toughen punishment for illegal tree cutting 10 December 2020 12:17 Share in: NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM – Kazakhstan is working on measures to toughen punishment for unlawful felling of trees, Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources Magzum Mirzagaliyev said Thursday, Kazinform reports. Related news While addressing the Government’s session, Minister Mirzagaliyev said that given the cases of illegal logging had become more frequent, the ministry together with the state authorities concerned decided to toughen the pun...