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Fires and poverty fuel deforestation in Nigeria
From 2002 to 2021, the protected area in southwest Nigeria lost 45 percent of its primary forest. The burden of fires is crucial. Socioeconomic and demographic factors are driving the trend

Here is how narcos are destroying Honduras’ forests
In Honduras, drug traffickers are still driving deforestation. The problem affects the whole Central America. However, it is not only drug trafficking that fuels land destruction, say indigenous communities.

Paper and palm oil industry boost deforestation in Papua-Indonesia, NGOs say
In the province of Papua, Indonesia, almost 6 thousand hectares of forests were destroyed in 2021, says the NGO Pusaka. A report accuses the subsidiary of a Korean company (which denies any wrongdoing) and two local operators of the palm oil industry

Investment funds don’t leave Brazil despite Amazon deforestation, FT writes
According to the Financial Times, more than a year after the appeal against the Brazilian government, most of the major firms are still investing in companies linked to the deforestation of the Amazon

Dutch banks lead the European credit to deforestation
From 2016 to 2020, lenders in the Netherlands financed global deforestation with more than €3 billion. Palm oil and soybeans the main beneficiaries

Smartphones and drones help indigenous communities fight deforestation
Thanks to drones and satellite technology, the Peruvian Amazon has halved the deforestation of indigenous lands in one year.

FAO launches a new digital tool to fight timber predators
A web tool to defend forests from timber predators will help UN organization to tackle a $100 billion business

Deforestation increases 67% in Amazon’s darkest month
Deforestation is growing in Brazilian Amazon. With obvious effects on climate and the economy. And government's responses look controversial

UK banks criticized for their support to deforestation
Guardian: Banks are funding global deforestation. The new law under discussion in UK is not expected to solve the problem.

Brazil will save the Amazon… as long as US and Norway pay for it
Minister Salles is asking for $1 billion from the international community to save the Amazon. But his country's position is controversial.