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Monthly update from the world's largest community of environmental experts.
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Wrapping up the International Year of Forests As we come to the end of 2011 - the International Year of Forests - we look at what’s been achieved in securing the enormous, irreplaceable contribution that the world’s forests make to the survival of biodiversity and human society.
From international policy changes to school and community projects, this year has seen an unprecedented level of attention placed on our forests, and the challenges facing them. > Read more
> Watch Stephen Kelleher talk about progress made during the International Year of Forests.
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Extracting the value of forests
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In the extreme west Amazon region, on the border with Peru and Bolivia, IUCN has helped strengthen community-based forest cooperatives that are improving the incomes of local people and securing forests for the future. > Read full story
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Greening the future - interview with Wangari Maathai
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The Green Belt Movement promotes tree planting as a way of achieving equity, improved livelihoods and environmental conservation. Just weeks before she passed away, its founder Professor Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Laureate, talked to IUCN’s Daniel Shaw about the importance of ensuring gender equality in natural resource management. > Read full story
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Tackling unsustainable fuelwood harvesting in eastern Europe
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In many countries of eastern Europe and Russia, forests are coming under increasing pressure from fuel wood harvesting. In some places, this harvest exceeds legal quotas and threatens the capacity of forests to regenerate. > Read full story
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Sentries of the coast
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In the Indus Delta of Pakistan, Siddiq Roonjha talks about his recent battles with cyclones as his home was flooded. Siddiq sees one big reason for these disasters—the vast areas of coastal mangroves which grew in a combination of saline and freshwater have depleted over time. He knows that planting mangroves is the only way forward; if protected and nurtured, the forest will one day be tall enough to shield his family. > Watch the video
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Improving forest law across national borders
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Sheila Abed, founder and Executive President of the Paraguayan Environmental Law and Economics Institute (IDEA) and Chair of IUCN’s Commission on Environmental Law, talks about her work on strengthening transboundary forest law. > Read full story
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Facts and figures
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Forests at a glance.
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The IUCN Red List update
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More than 61,900 species are reviewed.
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Discovering the deep seas
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Scientists on a mission to explore seamounts in the Indian Ocean.
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