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Monrovia, Liberia, 27 March 2026 — A new report, A Rapid Assessment of Liberia’s Mining Sector, with a Focus on the Local Impacts on Forests and People, finds that the Government of Liberia could be losing millions of dollars in mining revenue yearly, while communities miss out on promised benefits and environmental damage continues to […]

Washington, DC, 18 March 2026 — Forest Trends’ newest report,  Forest Governance Without a Central Government: A Subnational Monitoring and Response Model from the Ethnic Territories of Myanmar, shows that environmental governance can continue even in the absence of a functioning national government. In Myanmar, where the 2021 military coup dismantled central oversight of natural resources, authorities in ethnic territories have demonstrated that […]

Brazil, 13 March 2026 — Forest Trends’ Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative (CTGI) is advancing an integrated landscape restoration and agroforestry strategy across the Ribeira and Paraíba Valleys of Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest—one of the world’s most biodiverse and historically threatened tropical biomes, with only approximately 12 percent of its original cover remaining. In partnership with Digital […]

Washington, DC, 11 March 2026 — Forest Trends’ newest report finds that illegal logging, mining, wildlife trafficking, and natural gas exploitation in the Mekong Region are financing transnational criminal networks that reach far beyond Southeast Asia.  Nature Crimes: The Convergence of Criminal Economies in the Mekong Region reveals how the illegal extraction and trade of […]

Washington, DC, 09 March 2026 —Forest Trends supported Ikorē’s recent publishing of the Balaio de Memórias (or “Basketful of Memories” in Portuguese) website, which is a digital platform that gathers and publicizes the historical archive of Brazil’s Indigenous Culture Center (Núcleo de Cultura Indígena, or NCI). This archive was produced between the 1980s and 1990s, during a period of […]

Washington, DC, 9 de março de 2026 — A Forest Trends apoiou a publicação da Ikorē do Balaio de Memórias, uma plataforma digital que reúne e disponibiliza ao público o acervo histórico do Núcleo de Cultura Indígena (NCI), produzido entre as décadas de 1980 e 1990 — um período de intensa articulação entre povos indígenas de […]

Forest Trends and NatureVest (The Nature Conservancy’s impact investment team) are partnering on the 2026 State of Private Investment in Nature report, the most comprehensive update of the nature investment landscape since 2016. The report will capture actual deployed capital, transaction-level performance data, capital efficiency insights, and analysis of which catalytic capital structures work to […]

Washington, DC, 5 de marzo de 2026 —La Iniciativa Comunidades y Gobernanza Territorial (ICGT) de Forest Trends, con el apoyo de la  Fundación Walmart, anunció una nueva fase de trabajo para fortalecer la inclusión equitativa y efectiva de los Pueblos Indígenas, Comunidades Locales y Pueblos Afrodescendientes (PPII, CCLL y ADP) en el financiamiento climático jurisdiccional, con el objetivo de […]

Washington, DC, 05 March 2026 — Forest Trends’ Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative (CTGI), with support from the Walmart Foundation, announced a new phase of work to strengthen the equitable and effective inclusion of Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples (IPs, LCs, & ADs) in jurisdictional climate finance, with a focus on scaling and […]

Washington, DC, 5 de março de 2026 — A Iniciativa Comunidades e Governança Territorial da Forest Trends (ICGT), com o apoio da Fundação Walmart, anunciou uma nova fase de trabalho para fortalecer a participação efetiva e equitativa de Povos Indígenas, Comunidades Tradicionais e Povos Afrodescendentes (PIs, CTs e ADs) no financiamento climático jurisdicional, com foco em ampliar e acelerar programas de REDD+ Jurisdicional (JREDD+) no Brasil […]