Illegal Logging

We stayed in the forest homes of members of the Prey Lang Network, a grassroots association of villagers risking their lives to try and slow the destruction of their forest.

Essentially, these programs would be funded by developed nations to help pay for community forestry projects in developing countries, if the communities can demonstrate that their efforts are saving forests.

The Lacey Act is a powerful tool in efforts to stop the destruction of the world's forests, protect American jobs, and help establish rule of law in developing countries.

Newly released images of uncontacted Brazilian Indians reveal a thriving world that may soon be destroyed. The photos were taken by Brazil's Indian Af...

In Part 1 of this blog I outlined how the Rainforest Alliance's sustainable forestry certification program, called SmartWood, pioneered market-based i...

Part 1 of this blog overviewed the recent rise of robust interdiction of illegal logging, including stronger laws recently passed in the US and the EU...

Forests cover about a third of Earth's land area and contain about 70% of the carbon found in living things. They are one of the keys to climate chan...

The Senate has an opportunity to ensure that U.S. troops in Afghanistan -- already contending with heroin-financed Taliban attacks -- don't have to also worry about illegal logging as well.

While it's not hard to conclude that logging and high rates of deforestation are detrimental to the forests, a realization that may come as a surprise is the impact urbanization has had on the rainforest.

Instead of applying blame for the crisis that stands before us, there is a group of young people who are using their concern for the planet as motivation to actually do something about it.

JAKARTA (AFP) -- Indonesian villagers have trapped and killed a fourth endangered Sumatran tiger amid a spate of tiger attacks blamed on illegal loggi...

The amended Lacey Act makes the United States the first country in the world to place an outright ban on illegally harvested wood products.