Recent data tell us that tropical Africa has lost about 22 per cent of its forested area since 1900, which is comparable to the losses in the Amazon.

You have full access to this article via your institution. Demand for biofuels and other cash crops, such as tea and coffee, may usher in a new export-driven mode of deforestation in Africa's future.

The Congo Basin forest is known as the “lungs of Africa” because of its ability ... with the forest in urgent need of protection from deforestation - do some activists say Carbon trading ...

Deforestation, a pressing issue in Africa, is the second-largest contributor to global warming after fossil fuel emissions. AllAfrica publishes around 500 reports a day from more than 100 news ...

Activists are planting trees in an effort to protect disappearing forests in Mali, but residents are cutting and selling ...

But Africa’s biggest forest by far is found a thousand miles ... the same global outcry as fires in the Amazon or palm oil deforestation in Indonesia. What might fix that? Back to Moo Deng.

The European Union’s Deforestation Regulation has been postponed and will now take effect on 30 December 2025, instead of 30 ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 30. ... on Wednesday -- the smallest area destroyed in the world's largest rainforest in nine years. Roughly 6,288 square km (2,428 square miles) of Amazon ...

One of West Africa's most iconic hiking destinations is under threat and diminishing fast due to illegal 'slash and burn' farming. Located in the Southern Koinadugu region of Sierra Leone ...

The EU Deforestation Regulation, agreed in December 2022, is designed to prevent imports and exports of a comprehensive list of products linked to deforestation and forest degradation, including ...