Once threatened by palm oil and loggers, Cameroon’s forests now face a new driver of deforestation: booming cacao production ...

In the Congo Basin alone, about 37.1 million hectares of forest, or an area just smaller than Zimbabwe, was destroyed between 2000 and 2018. Deforestation and forest degradation aggravate the loss ...

High-resolution satellite imagery has been used to map every single tree in Africa, demonstrating a technique that could help improve the monitoring of deforestation across the world. Florian ...

By Olasunkanmi Owoyemi The European Union Deforestation-Free Regulation (EUDR) entered into force on June 29, 2023 although its main prohibitions will not take effect until December 30, 2024.

Every year, about 15 billion trees are cut down globally, and across Africa, deforestation rates has surpassed the global annual average of 0.8 percent.

However, during 2021, deforestation in the Congo Basin increased by 30,000 hectares, or 4.9% compared to 2018 to 2020 rates, jumping to 636,000 hectares lost.

They calculate that cocoa is directly responsible for almost 40 percent of the deforestation in these protected areas—about 1.5 million hectares of forest gone since 2000.

Importers of coffee to the European Union are starting to scale back purchases from small farmers in Africa and beyond as they prepare for a landmark EU law that will ban the sale of goods linked ...

South Africa’s G20 presidency could link the ecological health of the continent’s forests with economic progress and social equity. The African Union, a full G20 member, can be a good partner.