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Every two seconds, an area of forest the size of a football field is clear-cut by illegal loggers around the globe.

Scientists have confirmed the rediscovery of two tree species that were feared to have become extinct - twice - according to a report published in the Journal of East African Natural History. The finds were made in highly threatened fragments of dry forest in coastal Tanzania.

Cattle ranchers, Native Americans and Mormons fear US state's chief engineer will allow 300-mile pipeline to tap groundwater

GUERRILLA GARDENING has struck a ghost housing estate in Co Leitrim, with volunteers planting 1,000 trees there in the first salvo of a “Nama to Nature” campaign.

Foreign investors, including the Irish, are being encouraged to buy large tracts of African land, dispossessing local farmers, says David Ralph

President of Ireland launches National Tree Week in Ardee

In view of the upcoming Rio+20 conference, taking place this June, Just Forests would encourage everyone to read the WRM background information on issues that will undoubtedly be at the top of the agenda of this international event. Among those issues are so-called environmental services and related phenomena, such as payments for and trade in environmental services.

As the members of Stop Climate Chaos, we are writing to you to urge you to attend the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, in June this year as the representative for Ireland.