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JAKARTA: Despite having the highest conservation status, many national parks are still suffering from forest destruction, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new report shows that wildfires accounted for nearly half of all forest destruction in 2024. Data from the University of ...

Colombia has enacted a law aimed at preventing cattle linked to deforestation from entering beef supply chains by connecting livestock traceability, land ownership and forest monitoring systems.

After years of destruction, Sebangau forest was named a national park with the goal of protecting it from further ...

Tropical forest loss slowed in 2025 after record destruction, but experts warn climate-driven fires and deforestation remain dangerously high, threatening global goals and ecosystems. After a ...

In 2024, the world lost 6.7 million hectares of tropical primary rainforest, the highest level of loss in at least two decades. That’s nearly double the destruction recorded in 2023. Fires were the ...

Learn about what threatens the wet, layered forest and what you can do to help. 2 min read More than half of Earth’s rain ...

In 2024, 20,225 fewer acres of forest were lost within Protected Areas compared to 2023, representing a sharp reduction. Yet this improvement comes against a backdrop of massive destruction. 52 ...

Rainforests cover less than 10 per cent of Earth’s surface but support more than half of all known species. Here’s why World ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It’s the largest reduction since 2016, when ...