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Building a Sustainable Guitar: Rosewood
Add Comment|PrintBuilding a Sustainable Guitar: RosewoodRosewood is sought for use in guitar fretboards like this one. Bill Selak/FlickrWelcome to the fourth installment of WRI’s six-part blog series...
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Why Invest in Indigenous Lands?
Tenure-secure indigenous and other community forestlands are often linked to low deforestation rates, significant forest cover, and the sustainable production of timber and other forest products. New...
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Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs
ReportThe report, Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs: The Economic Case for Securing Indigenous Land Rights, quantifies for the first time the economic value of securing land rights for the communities who...
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3 Steps Toward Growing the Funds for Restoration
1 Comment|Add Comment|Print3 Steps Toward Growing the Funds for RestorationA nursery for restoration in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Lucy McHugh/CIFORRestoring degraded landscapes and forests has...
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UN Issues New Protections for Rosewood Trees, the “Ivory of the Forest”
Add Comment|PrintUN Issues New Protections for Rosewood Trees, the “Ivory of the Forest”Illegally harvested rosewood in Antalaha, Madagascar. Photo by anonymous/Wikimedia CommonsThe UN Convention on...
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Protecting Drinking Water at the Source
ReportBased on a 3-year comparative case study analysis of 13 watershed investment programs, this report provides lessons to guide water utilities and communities as they work together in protecting...
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U.S. Cities Go to the Source to Protect Drinking Water
Add Comment|PrintU.S. Cities Go to the Source to Protect Drinking WaterMany communities in the U.S. West depend on such sources for drinking water. Photo by Kara DiFrancesco.In 2002, a catastrophic...
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Infographic: The Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America
Degraded lands—lands that have lost some degree of their natural productivity through human activity—account for over 20 percent of forest and agricultural lands in Latin America and the Caribbean....
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The Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America
ReportThe Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America finds that achieving Initiative 20x20’s goal of restoring 20 million hectares of land in Latin America and the Caribbean could yield...
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Restoring Degraded Land in Latin America Can Bring Billions in Economic Benefits
Add Comment|PrintRestoring Degraded Land in Latin America Can Bring Billions in Economic BenefitsDeforestation in Brazil. CIFOR/FlickrImagine a landscape, baked by a hot tropical sun, where almost...
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Building a Sustainable Guitar: Ebony
Add Comment|PrintBuilding a Sustainable Guitar: EbonyEbony is prized for its color, synonymous with black, and hardness. Photo by Laika AC/FlickrWelcome to the fifth installment of WRI's six-part blog...
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Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are the World’s Secret Weapon in...
Add Comment|PrintIndigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are the World’s Secret Weapon in Curbing Climate ChangeBrazilian state of Acre. Photo by Gleilson Miranda/Wikimedia CommonsThe world’s...
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African Nations Poised to Rapidly Accelerate Landscape Restoration
Add Comment|PrintAfrican Nations Poised to Rapidly Accelerate Landscape RestorationRestoration project in Kenya. Photo by Aaron Minnick/WRIThe momentum for large-scale restoration has never been...
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Building a Sustainable Guitar: Mahogany
Add Comment|PrintBuilding a Sustainable Guitar: MahoganyA twisting branch of mahogany. Photo by Kinnla/FlickrWelcome to the final installment of WRI’s six-part blog series on the future of tonewoods,...
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PODCAST: The Sounds of Sustainability
Add Comment|PrintPODCAST: The Sounds of SustainabilityGuitars can be made more sustainably. Here's how! Photo by Javier Morales/FlickrIn this episode of the WRI Podcast, Lawrence MacDonald sits down...
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Brazilian Government Announces 29 Percent Rise in Deforestation in 2016
Add Comment|PrintBrazilian Government Announces 29 Percent Rise in Deforestation in 2016An aerial shot shows the contrast between the forest and agricultural landscapes near Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil....
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Weather Patterns that Fueled Great Smoky Mountains Forest Fire Could Increase...
Add Comment|PrintWeather Patterns that Fueled Great Smoky Mountains Forest Fire Could Increase with Climate ChangeThe Chimney Tops 2 wildfire in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo by Chris...
View ArticleDemocratic Republic of the Congo Enables Forest-based Communities to Secure...
WRI convened governmental and non-governmental stakeholders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to inform new rules on community forest rights that go beyond subsistence use of natural resources....
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Brazil’s Proposed Environmental Laws Would Weaken Indigenous Rights, Forfeit...
Add Comment|PrintBrazil’s Proposed Environmental Laws Would Weaken Indigenous Rights, Forfeit Billions in Economic BenefitsThe Yudja are one of many indigenous groups that call Brazil's Amazon home....
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Seeing Israeli Forests for More than Just Trees
Add Comment|PrintSeeing Israeli Forests for More than Just TreesAn aircraft flying over Mount Carmel to put out the deadly forest fire in December, 2010. Photo by Israel Air Police Unit/Creative...
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