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Some forest restoration linked to short-term rise in zoonotic diseases Deforestation and land use change can accelerate the spread of zoonotic diseases — infectious illnesses that can spread from animals to humans — including malaria and COVID-19. While habitat…

Deforestation can accelerate zoonotic disease risk, but new research finds restoration may briefly raise risk in some areas.

Outcomes are highly context-dependent: rodent surges can increase disease in reforested sites, while wetland restoration often reduces transmission.

Activists are racking up wins against a false climate solution Across North America and Europe, a movement is taking on the biomass industry and saving some of the world’s last intact forests.

🌟 Great coverage of the increasingly effective grassroots campaign to halt the expansion of the global wood pellet industry!

#stopburningtrees
#nomorefalsesolutions

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From False Solutions to Transformative Change - Global Forest Coalition Forest Cover 70 brings together powerful case studies and firsthand testimonies from GFC member groups and allies in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Chile, Morocco, Panama, and Zambia. This edition exposes how e...

Extractive industries and corporate-driven “green” solutions act as systemic barriers to gender-just, community-led real solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises. See how communities are resisting and overcoming these barriers: globalforestcoalition.org/from-false-s...

Brazil's GE eucalyptus boom shows how land-based geoengineering—marketed as climate mitigation—reproduces colonial, ecological, and social harms - Geoengineering Monitor By Natalie McClure, Isaac Millians and Amy Guzman. Undergraduate Researchers at Gibson Climate Justice Lab, University of Southern California

A new investigation looks behind the hype of land-based geoengineering in Brazil.

It connects carbon markets, GE eucalyptus, & the expansion of Suzano’s pulp plantations to impacts on Quilombola communities.

https://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/brazils-ge-eucalyptus-boom

#StopGETrees

ILLEGAL LOGGING IN EKURI FOREST  – THISDAYLIVE

We condemn the recent arrest and harassment of Forest Defenders in Ekuri Forest, a biodiverse rainforest in Cross River State. More egregious is the reason for their ordeal: blocking illegal logging.
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Paraguay, entre los países con mayor aumento de calor extremo en el mundo según la Universidad de Oxford - Adelante! La población mundial que vivirá con calor extremo se duplicará para 2050, según un último estudio de la Universidad de Oxford

Paraguay, entre los países con mayor aumento de calor extremo en el mundo según la Universidad de Oxford

La población mundial que vivirá con calor extremo se duplicará para 2050-países Latinos c mayores cambios: Brasil, Venez, Parag, Honduras, Guatemala, Nica

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¿Paraguay 2.0 en Bolivia? Por Pablo Solón El proyecto de Ley 157 de Conversión de la Pequeña Propiedad Agraria a Mediana Propiedad ha sido aprobado en el Senado con el objetivo de impulsar un nuevo proceso de concentración …

Bajo el argumento de facilitar el acceso a créditos, se impulsa la conversión de la pequeña propiedad en mediana. Lo que no se dice es que esa conversión permite el embargo de la tierra, poniendo en riesgo a miles de familias campesinas.

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BOLIVIA: Proyecto de Ley 157, aprobado en el Senado, abre la puerta a un nuevo proceso de concentración de la tierra. No es una demanda de los pequeños productores, sino de organizaciones de grandes y medianos empresarios agropecuarios.

Taboo against harming strangler fig spirits protects forests in Indonesian Borneo When a young boy went missing near his mother’s rice field in Indonesian Borneo, the entire village searched for him. After nearly a day, he was found near a large strangler fig tree. The boy insisted...

“Tree islands”—an interesting indigenous practice in Borneo Indonesia that maintains forests and wildlife alongside agriculture news.mongabay.com/2025/12/tabo...

Forest Cover 70 Launch Webinar - From False Solutions to Transformative Change - Global Forest Coalition The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) warmly invites you to a special webinar on 29 January 2026 to launch the latest issue of Forest Cover: From False Solutions

⏰ Only 2 days to go — don’t miss it! 🌱

Join us for the launch of Forest Cover 70 📖✊
Hear from researchers and activists building real climate justice 🌍🔥

🗓 29 Jan 2026 | 🕐 13:00 UTC
🌍 EN/ES/FR
🔗 https://bit.ly/forestcover70
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Excited to meet this Thursday Jan 29 for a discussion of what GFC members in various countries are doing to challenge the status quo of green capitalism and forge real solutions to the crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss and deforestation

LISTEN: new Breaking Green podcast with Mark Tilden of Indigenous Environmental Network @ienearth.bsky.social on Minneapolis peoples' self defense uprising and refusal to back down to ICE terror campaign @xrglobal.bsky.social @hoodwinkedhothouse.bsky.social globaljusticeecology.org/new-breaking...

Chile Engulfed in Tree Plantation & Climate-fueled Mega-Fires yet again
When fire enters plantation landscapes, it spreads rapidly through the flammable trees. The plantations grow on ancestral Mapuche lands, stolen under Pinochet
globaljusticeecology.org/chile-engulf...
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social

Chile deploys 500 officers in bogus arrest of children of disappeared Mapuche activist Julia Chuñil
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@ienearth.bsky.social @iwrising.bsky.social @indigenousinfonet.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @xrglobal.bsky.social

🌱 From False Solutions to Transformative Change 🌱
📖 Launch of Forest Cover 70

Join us for a webinar with activists presenting research from Bangladesh, Bolivia, Chile, Morocco, Panama & Zambia 🌍✊

🗓 29 Jan 2026 | 🕐 1–2:30pm UTC
🌍 EN/ES/FR
🔗 https://bit.ly/FC70webinar

Nigeria Must Protect Ekuri Forest Defenders and Halt Illegal Logging in Ekuri Forest - Global Forest Coalition Nigerian authorities must urgently protect environmental and forest defenders, halt all alleged illegal logging in Ekuri Forest, and ensure that law enforcement agencies are not used to undermine community-led conservation, the Global Forest Coalition said today.

Nigeria must urgently protect Ekuri Forest defenders and halt alleged illegal logging in Cross River State. 

Read the full statement : https://bit.ly/Ekuri-forest

#ProtectEkuri #ForestDefenders #HumanRights

🌱 From False Solutions to Transformative Change 🌱
📖 Launch of Forest Cover 70

Join to hear from activists resisting extractivism and building real climate justice in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Chile, Morocco, Panama & Zambia 🌎✊

🗓 29 Jan 2026 | 🕐 13:00 UTC
🌍 EN/ES/FR
🔗 https://bit.ly/FC70webinar

Mexico: Stop the destruction of Chiapas’ forests! The forests of Mexico’s Chiapas state are among the most biodiverse on Earth, yet they face grave danger: Nearly half have already been illegally logged for timber. Please support the campaign of our ...

‼️ Please SIGN: Half of Chiapas’ forests are gone, and 70% of its traded timber is illegal. It’s time for Mexico to enforce its own laws. #RainforestRescue #ActForRainforest ✍️ rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13... @annegjep.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @ran.org @gfc-forest.bsky.social

The Next Frontier of Climate Accountability: Making Big Food Pay Its Ecological Bill The “polluter pays” principle is a cornerstone of environmental regulation. It raises billions of dollars each year and has been fundamental in pushing

"The environmental cost of meat is disproportionately high...
Calls to curb meat consumption are growing louder, yet meat intake is climbing with rising incomes in emerging economies, coupled with entrenched habits in wealthier nations...
Clean energy isn’t enough; clean food is next."

Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to liquid biofuels. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?

Biofuels are absurdly inefficient compared to electric vehicles.

A great piece in @ourworldindata.org

ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land...

Unmistakable rise in forest fires, getting bigger, longer, more destructive: 4 of the 5 worst years on record occurred since 2020.
Boreal & temperate conifer forests now particularly vulnerable.
Forests should be carbon sinks but in 2023 & 2024 they only absorbed ¼ of the CO2 they typically do.

Statement by the Global Forest Coalition Against Trump’s Illegal Intervention in Venezuela - Global Forest Coalition GFC Statement Against Trump’s Illegal Intervention in Venezuela

We strongly condemn the imperialist, colonialist intervention by the US Government in the sovereign territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and demand respect for international law, sovereignty, and the self-determination of the Venezuelan people
globalforestcoalition.org/statement-on...

🇻🇪 Rechazamos la intervención illegal de Trump en #Venezuela y nos solidarizamos con el pueblo venezolano ✊🏽

🥳 Bonne année ! / ¡Feliz año nuevo! / Happy New Year from us at Global Forest Coalition 🎉🎊🍾

📸 Photo from Bukhansan National Park, South Korea

Transforming food & agriculture is central to climate, social & ecological justice. 🌾

At last month’s People’s Summit – the people-led alternative running alongside #COP30 – we held our event ‘Transforming Food Systems for a Just & Equitable Transition.’🧵

The Carbon Mirage in Uganda: How reforestation initiatives are turning into sources of displacement and poverty? By Witness Radio team   Uganda’s reforestation projects are promoted as solutions to mitigate the climate crisis. But as they are implemented, there’s a deepening of inequality, destruction of lives, ...

The Carbon Mirage in Uganda: How reforestation initiatives are turning into sources of displacement and poverty?
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Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown

“The results show that urgent action is needed to stop forest loss or the world risks losing one of its most important natural carbon buffers.” Yes!

We disagree that TFFF is a forest protection “safeguard”; it's an investment scheme for profit & control 💰🤑 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The vanishing pharmacy: How climate change is reshaping traditional medicine Gyatso Bista remembers the sacks of kutki. As a child learning to become a healer in Nepal’s kingdom of Lo Manthang, Bista would watch as heaps of the bitter-tasting herb, prized for treating fever,…

Climate change is putting medicinal plants at risk, threatening health care for the 80% of people who rely on traditional medicine.

Heat, habitat loss and extreme weather are altering plant chemistry, while communities fight back through conservation and knowledge-sharing.

Malaysian companies dominate PNG forest-clearance permits: report Papua New Guinea’s rainforests, which span 28.2 million hectares (69.6 million acres), are among the most biodiverse in the world, hosting an estimated 5-8% of all species. The country also has one…

A report finds 65 of 67 PNG land-conversion permits are controlled by Malaysian-linked firms, covering 1.68 million hectares of rainforest — mostly undisturbed.

Critics say permits meant for development have enabled large-scale logging, despite a 2023 moratorium.

🍃 Paper Calculator™ v4.1 is now live!

A free resource to help reduce the climate, forest, biodiversity, and community impacts of paper

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Explore the update: environmentalpaper.org/2025/12/epn-...