カテゴリー: Trees and forests
An on-call team at Amritsar’s tree hospital nurses sick neems and gives new life to troubled banyansSahib Singh clambers up a portable ladder, reaches out and, with the help of a few tools, tugs at the banyan tree and successfully removes it. The uproo…
Illegal logging is robbing Indians of food, medicine and even saffron to dye monks’ robes. Now local people are fighting backIn the pitch dark, the volunteers walk for hours along roads surrounded by dense forest. They patrol in near silence, listening…
Meghalaya state hopes for world heritage status for unique bridges, which can take decades to createIndia’s famous living bridges – the roots of trees coaxed and stretched into the form of a suspension bridge over a river – have been submitted to Unesc…
Villagers rely more on the forest’s resources, threatening its ecosystem – and leaving them more vulnerable to cyclonesHelp us support those on the climate emergency’s frontlineAs he steps out of the mosque on the banks of the Kholpetua River, Mohammed…
India’s tiger corridor and Australia’s possum ‘tunnel of love’ are among the myriad infrastructure projects providing safe passageHow creating wildlife crossings can help reindeer, bears – and even crabsRead more in our series Biodiversity: what happen…
Environment minister of country home to world’s third-biggest rainforest says deforestation pledge must not halt developmentIndonesia has questioned the terms of a Cop26 deal to end deforestation by 2030, days after joining more than 100 countries in s…
China funnelling billions into harmful production of beef, soy and palm oil, says campaign groupCampaigners have called on Chinese banks to stop funding overseas agribusinesses that accelerate deforestation and biodiversity loss and have a negative imp…
From a forest in Papua New Guinea to a floor in Sydney: how China is getting rich off Pacific timber
China is the major buyer of wood from Pacific nations like PNG and Solomon Islands, which are implicated in illegal or unsustainable loggingRead more of our Pacific Plunder series hereAn illegally logged tree, felled in the diminishing forests of Papua…
China received more than half of all seafood, wood, and minerals exported from the region in 2019. Experts warn this is creating ‘enormous challenges for sustainable development’Read more of our Pacific Plunder series hereOne country dominates the Paci…
Peak bloom reached on 26 March in Kyoto and experts say impact of global warming is to blameJapan’s famous cherry blossoms have reached their flowery peak in many places earlier this year than at any time since formal records began nearly 70 years ago,…
Tree-viewing parties are banned as many coronavirus restrictions remainCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan will emerge from 10 weeks of coronavirus restrictions on Sunday, just in time for the peak of the annual cherry blo…
Kerala villagers are reaping the benefits of a scheme that pays them to leave their trees rooted, reducing risk of deforestationIn the misty, hilly terrain of Wayanad, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, the people with any access to land in the qu…
Australian photographer Brian Cassey visits Hasdeo Arand, one of the largest contiguous stretches of dense forest in central India. The area is rich in biodiversity, containing many threatened species including elephants, leopards and sloth bears. A ra…
Maximum penalties in the tens of thousands of dollars apply for using routes that are closed to contain dieback diseaseA hiker in New Zealand has become the first to be charged with walking on closed tracks in the Waitakere ranges, violating a ban put …