Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 7/2020

Indispensable forests

REDD+

No panacea

REDD+ money is reinvested in forest protection and sustainable land use

Africa

Environmental destruction

Poverty is an important driver of deforestation in sub-Saharan countries

Propaganda

Nothing is true

Why populists depend on systematical disinformation

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Populist governance

Lying about Brazil’s forests

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro falsely says deforestation is not a problem

Our view

Human action

Deforestation continues on a global level although it is damaging to human interests in several ways

Violent conflict

Livelihoods in danger

A sociologist assess the background of guerrilla warfare in central India’s forests

Deforestation

A legacy of destruction

Suharto era was devastating for Indonesian forests

Preserving forests

Cutting the losses

Deforestation in Indonesia has slowed considerably in recent years but more needs to be done to stop it entirely

Nature conservation

Threatened by invasive species

A private initiative is trying to rebuild endemic forest in Mauritius