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A tree stands at a deforested area in Maraba, Para state, Brazil September 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

World falling far behind deforestation goals with farms and fires driving loss: report

The report said the world permanently lost 8.1 million hectares (20 million acres) of forest, an area about the size of England, in 2024 alone

CHT forests razed for cassava farming, harming biodiversity. Photo: TBS

Govt fails to assess forest destruction despite constitutional mandates: Environmental experts

A drone view shows a deforested plot of Brazil's Amazon rainforest in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo

Brazil's Amazon posts lowest deforestation in nine years

An aerial view shows forested and deforested areas, near Las Lomitas, in Formosa, Argentina April 18, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian/File Photo

Argentina judge halts deforestation of Chaco forest in rare move

An infant Bornean orangutan is seen with its mother at a rehabilitation centre in Sepilok, Malaysia August 17, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain

Malaysia announces adopt-an-orangutan plan for palm oil importers

Photo: Collected

Satellite images show deforestation toll of Indonesia mines

An aerial view shows a dead tree near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado in Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso state, Brazil July 28, 2021. Picture taken July 28, 2021 with a drone. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

US urges EU to delay anti-deforestation law

China is home to the largest artificial afforestation area in the world. Photo: Collected

Innovation fortifies China's 'green Great Wall' against desertification

Sketch: TBS.

Is planting trees enough to save the environment?

FILE PHOTO: A view of a deforested area in the middle of the Amazon forest, near the BR-230 highway, known as Transamazonica, in the municipality of Uruara, Para, Brazil, July 14, 2021. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File Photo

Forests key to climate fight along with cutting fossil fuels, study suggests

An aerial view shows deforestation near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado in Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso state, Brazil July 28, 2021. Picture taken with a drone on July 28, 2021. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli/File Photo

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls to lowest since 2018

An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File Photo

Home countries of major rainforests agree to work together to save them

A view shows a deforested area in the middle of the Amazon Forest near the BR-230 highway, known as Transamazonica, in the municipality of Uruara, Para, Brazil, July 14, 2021. To match Special Report GLOBAL-PANDEMICS/BATS-SPREAD REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File Photo

World far off track on pledges to end deforestation by 2030