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Reporter’s diary: forest journalists cover the globe
No commentsNepalese journalist Ramesh Bhushal reflects on what his trip to cover the UN climate change conference in Durban means for his future reporting on forests, climate and water.
»Postcard from Durban: Greener football and tree-preneurs
No commentsBusisiwe Ndlela was radiant when I met her yesterday. Just this month, and with money she earned selling tiny trees, she has bought a new cupboard and an electric stove and she is proud as can be. I met this 60-year old mother of seven on the outskirts of Durban, South Africa where she and hundreds [...]
»No place at the climate table, Nepali communities say
No commentsMembers of a federation of community forests from Nepal accused the government of Nepal of being biased towards them by refusing to accept their representative as a party delegate at UN climate talks.
»Durban city offers summit goers a chance to offset carbon
No commentsOne of the side effects of a huge climate change summit is its own carbon footprint. Durban, the host of this year’s UN climate talks in South Africa, offers attendees a way to reduce the size of it.
»Tanzania may benefit from new climate change research programme
No commentsTanzania and other East African countries might now be able to undertake extensive research on climate change beginning next year.
»Brazil gets its first ever ‘fossil’ award for new forest policy
No commentsBrazils earns its first ever “fossil award” for suggesting that a new forest law would help it reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
»Replanting Nigeria’s tropical forest
No commentsNigeria once in the heart of the tropical rainforest belt, has lost around 95 per cent of its forest cover and now imports 75 per cent of its timber. But an initiative – which calls on people living around the forest to repair the damage, is underway.
»Reporter’s diary: replanting Nigeria’s tropical forest
No commentsArmsfree Ajanaku on his report on the restoration of the Urhonigbe Forest in Nigeria.
»A Nigerian quest for better use of wood fuel
2 commentsUgochi Anyaka reports on the health effects that people suffer when the burn wood as fuel in their homes – and how tackling this problem can help to limit climate change too.
»Eroding our homes and farmland
No commentsLife is precarious in for people in the Amucha community in Southern Nigeria. Homes and farmland have collapsed into massive gullies in the earth. Soil experts say this erosion is getting worse – caused by deforestation and increasingly unpredictable weather. Ugochi Anyaka travelled to the region to see the problem and hear some possible solutions.
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