Stories: People & Ecosystems

With the price of timber declining, hundreds of thousands of private woodland owners across the South are struggling with balance sheets in the red.

Common data and clear definitions will enable the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and REDD+ policy-makers to achieve a shared goal: sustainable oil palm expansion on degraded land in Indonesia.

Last week at the UN Convention on Biodiversity, the World Bank launched a new program that aims to put a value on a country’s ecosystems in the same way a country measures its national income and product accounts, or GNP and GDP.

Three-quarters of Americans have not.

Nagoya delegates need to plan how the world achieves food security, before ecosystems reach critical tipping points.

To celebrate biodiversity, look no further than the forests of the Southern United States.

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Enforcement of the amended Lacey Act has begun, both on and off the public radar. Here are tips on how to remain in compliance.

A new set of state-of-the art maps will help Uganda target livestock infrastructure investments and reduce poverty.

To regain momentum on the MDGs, we must recognize the role of healthy ecosystems in successful development.