A new study has revealed that the ban rolled out in Costa Rica to prevent clearing of mature forests, has been effective in boosting agricultural expansion on non-forest lands. [more]

The New Zealand Government has made the deforestation issue even worse as a result of their weakening of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the country's Green Party has argued. [more]

Brazil’s Environment Minister has confirmed that the Government has increased the number of inspectors working across the Amazon rainforest in a bid to stamp out the plague of illegal logging. [more]

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has announced the delay of the auction of a proposed high-speed passenger train - which could have an impact on the country’s precious Brazilian rainforest - following a lack of competition for the tender. [more]

Deforestation has led to the extinction of large mammals across the Amazon rainforest, which is now having a marked impact on the growth rates of new trees, according to scientists. [more]

Contributing towards the protection of forests across the globe should be a global responsibility, and packaging giant Tetra Pak is doing its bit in Brazil with the launch of greener packaging. [more]

A coalition of environmental groups in New South Wales, Australia, has said that State Governments have failed to protect and manage forests and wildlife to the same standards that would have been required if they had stayed under federal control. [more]

A military campaign to evict illegal loggers from an area of northeastern Brazil has begun, in a bid to protect the indigenous reserve home of the Awá people. [more]

A new free trade agreement that has been signed by the US and Peru, has revealed that the same treaties which open worldwide markets to tropical timber can also create methods to clap down on illegal logging. [more]

According to The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) in Zimbabwe, trees in tropical forests across the globe are playing a huge role in slowing the rate of climate change, by absorbing almost one-fifth of the carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. [more]