Rainforest

The world’s tropical forests are falling as fast as ever – at a pace of about 13 million hectares each year, or 50 football fields a minute. But the rainforest killers are changing, with big implications for us all.

The Brazilian Space Agency and Britain’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory are planning to boldly go into new realms of space-based rainforest protection.

The emergence of rainforest saving initiatives which are intent on action and are already proving successful is refreshing to see.

Deforestation of the Amazon is set to rise for the first time in four years, Brazilian officials have admitted this week.

Small, local initiatives are the best way to preserve tropical rainforests but are being ignored by governments, a new study has shown.

Thirty years ago this month, Edward Goldsmith published a revised version of WEAP, the World Ecological Areas Programme in the Ecologist