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Monitoring deforestation for REDD: Maps, datasets, and above all uncertainty

Posted on 3 July 2019

How do we know whether or not a REDD project is actually reducing deforestation and forest degradation? Satellite data is one increasingly popular answer. Computers can be trained to use the data to detect deforestation and changes in land use and plot the information on easy to read maps.

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Demand for luxury furniture in China pushes Siamese rosewood to the brink of extinction

Posted on 16 May 201431 October 2017

“Hongmu” is a style of intricately carved Chinese wooden furniture and artworks. It’s found on sale in glitzy shopping malls across mainland China. But behind the timber used to create this art form is a violent crime wave.

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Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Posted on 23 January 20146 October 2015

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a proposed international trade agreement, involving 12 countries and covering a range of topics including intellectual property, the environment and workers’ rights. The TPP has been negotiated in secret for almost four years.

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Can REDD stop the land grabbing crisis in Laos and Cambodia?

Posted on 15 May 20131 June 2020

This week, Global Witness released a new report investigating a land grabbing crisis in Laos and Cambodia. The report looks at two Vietnamese “rubber baron” companies, Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG). Global Witness found that these companies “have leased vast tracts of land for plantations in Laos and Cambodia,…

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“Concerns grow over weak safeguard implementation,” Forest Peoples Programme on REDD and safeguards

Posted on 1 May 20134 December 2014

Forest Peoples Programme’s April 2013 E-Newsletter focusses on safeguards. The E-Newsletter starts by looking at why safeguards matter. Other articles explain and comment on the World Bank’s safeguards review, forest policy and oil palm policy, the failure of safeguards in the Camisea gas project in Peru and examples from the Congo Basin and Cameroon.

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