African leaders and experts urge urgent action to save Africa’s forests and promote ...

CIFOR-ICRAF receives funding from more than 50 donors, so I am not going to list them all. You can consult our annual financial reports Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty ...

A data collection and analysis initiative led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the African Union Commission (AUC) has revealed 7 billion trees outside forests ...

By Sharon Atieno Despite Africa’s forest cover standing at 650 million hectares, the continent’s contribution to the global forest resources market remains low at less than five percent.Besides, ...

Professor Heiko Balzter, Dr Nezha Acil (right) and University of Leicester colleagues at a zoobotanical garden at the Museu Emilio Goeldi in Belém, with trees and animals from the Amazon.

In the past three decades, poaching has decimated Africa’s now-critically endangered forest elephants, and as a result, their vital role as seed dispersers of many forest plants has been disrupted. A ...

Guinea has seen nearly 4,400 hectares (about 10,900 acres) of reforestation across 43 villages since 2021 under a project led by Switzerland-based arboRise Foundation, which employs hundreds of women ...

A new WWF report, From Past to Future: How Business-as-Usual Cocoa Drives Forest Loss and What We Can Do, reveals that cocoa cultivation, long associated with deforestation in West Africa, is now ...