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The pace of deforestation has increased in line with the government’s clampdown on environmental defenders. February 25, 2021 This 2013 file photo shows a clearing in the middle of the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Cambodia. Credit: Sebastian Strangio Advertisement In Cambodia, few protected areas are under as much threat from deforestation as the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. For years, this protected area, which covers some 430,000 hectares across Kratie, Stung Treng, Kampong Thom, and Preah Vihear provinces in north-central Cambodia, has been gradually hollowed out by logging ...

Police Target the Most Lucrative of Environmental Crimes   LYON, France, February 16, 2021 (ENS) – A decade of forestry crime operations, fighting the looting of natural resources such as timber and charcoal in some of the world’s poorest countries, has given the international police force, Interpol, some powerful tools to carry on the fight against its powerful adversaries. Al-Shabaab, a violent terrorist group responsible for major attacks in Somalia and Kenya, has been one of the main beneficiaries of the illegal charcoal trade. Illegal loggers cut a rare rainforest tree into planks. ...

Given that the authorities have launched SUMAL 2.0 in an untested and incomplete form, which generates blockages in the market, WWF Romania...

There is abundant proof of the men's activities. even notes on how many trees they cut down. this wood goes to local cattle ranchers, who build fences around their area and they're selling the stakes for those fences. and it even shows right here how much money they're making. the leader, whose name is laercio guajajara, lectures the suspects. why did you agree to do this work? "because," he says, "i don't have anything." laercio says more than a third of his ancestral homeland has been destroyed. scientists now worry that the amazon may be at a tipping point. after raging fires and an increas...

Raised millions of dollars and protected more than 33 million acres of rainforest. their tireless campaigning has helped launch groundbreaking projects that have empowered indigenous communities to lead, putting the protection of their homes and human rights in their own hands. using cutting edge mobile apps and drone technology, the rainforest fund is revolutionizing the way communities are able to record, report, and monitor illegal logging and mining to protect the land they've lived on for centuries. sting has been on the front lines fighting for the planet and three decades later he's sti...