Here’s to creating sustainable harvests of Cameroon’s national delicacy: weevil grubs.

• EATING CARBON: Drive across the USA or a shrimp-and-steak dinner? The carbon cost is about the same.

We’re looking forward to some great knowledge exchange with our colleagues from around the world, at the World Forestry Congress next month.

See our full WFC2015 line-up here. 

Setting out to count the world’s tropical tree species – chaos…and success!

• ONE MAN’S MAD MISSION: How one scientist coordinated the tree count.
• COUNT THAT AGAIN: Watch the counter click over and over in this infographic.

An expert’s assessment of the long-term solutions to the fire and haze in Indonesia.

• POLICY DIALOGUE: CIFOR’s Director General shared his thoughts on solutions to fire and haze in a dialogue with the Indonesian government.

How resolving timber disputes can help make the Congo Basin more stable and productive.

• ONLY FOR ELITES? Is it possible to prevent only the privileged benefiting from REDD+?
• ONLY FOR POLITICIANS? Talking to people in Mexico: Who wins in REDD+ projects?

Cycles in sea temperatures synchronize with western Amazon rainfall.

• REDD+ in BRAZIL:  What’s needed if REDD+ is to slow deforestation and maintain development goals.