The planet is becoming greener, but scientists warn that forests with fast-growing trees are more fragile and less resilient.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new initiative led by Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment plans to financially reward conservationists of the planet’s tropical forests. In an ...

Conservation has never lacked ideas. Protected areas, payments for ecosystem services, community management, certification schemes, and public campaigns have all been promoted as solutions to ...

There is a long history of the mechanical thinning of forests in standard forestry operations. Thinning typically involves ...

A new rule proposed by the U.S. Forest Service would give the public less opportunity to comment on the agency's projects and decisions.

Oregon forestry officials are moving ahead with a controversial plan that will reduce logging on state lands west of the Cascades. The Western State Lands Habitat Conservation Plan will change the way ...

This commentary was submitted by the Forest Partnership, a coalition of the following conservation organizations in Vermont: Audubon Vermont; Northeast Wilderness Trust; The Nature Conservancy in ...

This issue of Arborvitae (AV34) takes a special look at forests and climate change before representatives from 180 countries meet in Bali, Indonesia, for the UN climate change conference in December.

Conservation groups are voicing opposition to a U.S. Forest Service plan to repeal the Roadless Rule, which limits road ...

The road that leads to Emerald Forest Reserve does not inspire hope. For kilometre after kilometre, the landscape unfolds in ...

As the presidential election looms and the odds of a 2020 rematch grow, natural resource management is just one of many issues at stake. The Trump administration emphasized logging, thinning, and ...

Kusum Devi Dagaura has chaired a community forest group in Kailali for three years. In that time, the forest has thrived on her watch, but she has never been allowed to take any decision. The Mohanyal ...