According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, ecosystem services are the "benefits that people obtain from ecosystems". Forests are like giant utilities providing ecosystem services to the world that we all...  Read More

Growing evidence suggests that deforestation will have a significant impact on the global hydrological cycle (Pielke et al. 2002) and the carbon cycle. Although the latter is the focus of...  Read More

The State of the World's Forests reports on the status of forests, recent major policy and institutional developments and key issues concerning the forest sector. It makes current, reliable and...  Read More

At the invitation of HRH The Prince of Wales, world leaders met in London on April 1, 2009. On this occasion they acknowledged the great importance of tropical forests in...  Read More

Prospects for making the big changes needed to prepare for REDD-plus in Ghana.

Forests may be about to get a lucky break. If opportunities are seized and...  Read More

This report presents the outcome of four dialogues on frameworks for the financing and implementation of REDD-plus, which were organized by The Forests Dialogue (TFD) between April and August 2009....  Read More

In Europe, forest policy discussions are moving towards a European-Union-wide strategy. This will further strengthen the relations between the European countries in the field of forests and forest management. European-wide...  Read More

Commonwealth people are today all much more conscious of the impacts that can result from an uncaring approach to the global environment. Climate change, which 20 years ago Commonwealth governments...  Read More

The Prince’s Rainforests Project was established in 2007 to develop consensus as to how to curb tropical deforestation. This report contains a set of proposals that could form the basis...  Read More

The subject of forests is related to the entire range of environmental and development issues and opportunities, including the right to socio-economic development on a sustainable basis.

Natural resource managers and conservationists are coming to grips with the fact that rapid global warming and associated climate changes are already having a considerable impact on the world’s ecological...  Read More