Trees and forests

Harsher anti-protest laws targeting environmentalists are putting greed before green | Bob Brown
Penalties for peaceful action are now the same as for aggravated assault
Bob Brown
27, Jun, 2022 @1:35 AM

Banks and UK supermarkets accused of backing deforestation in Brazil
By funding and stocking products from Brazilian meat giant JBS, firms have also supported land-grabbing, investigation claims
Sophie Kevany
24, Jun, 2022 @6:05 PM

Dom Phillips obituary
Brazil-based UK journalist and author who championed the role of Indigenous people in saving the Amazon
Jonathan Watts
24, Jun, 2022 @2:40 PM

Britain’s vanishing rainforests must be protected, say campaigners
Analysis reveals 73% of remaining fragments of rare temperate rainforest in England are not under protection
Patrick Greenfield
23, Jun, 2022 @9:30 AM

‘We make nature here’: pioneering Dutch project repairs image after outcry over starving animals
Oostvaardersplassen reserve reshaped conservation in the 1980s as nature was allowed to take its course, now it is rewilding in a more managed way
Phoebe Weston
21, Jun, 2022 @5:15 AM

‘Bolsonaro’s fingerprints are all over this’: how president’s war on Amazon played part in double killing
Brazil’s leader has steadily attacked those defending the region where journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira lost their lives
Andrew Downie in São Paulo
18, Jun, 2022 @3:00 PM

Young country diary: The hungry caterpillar makes beautiful shapes | Nenedjo
East London: I saw something weird on a leaf at forest school, then one of the teachers told me something that blew my mind
18, Jun, 2022 @10:00 AM

Sign our petition to protect this precious Welsh landscape | Letter
Letter: Lorna Brazell of the Cambrian Mountains Society urges readers to support a move to designate the Elenydd as an area of outstanding natural beauty
Letters
17, Jun, 2022 @4:40 PM

Let us train the woodland workers that Britain needs | Letter
Letter: If there is to be any point in planting trees, we are going to need people to manage them as they grow, writes Ian Taylor
Letters
17, Jun, 2022 @4:39 PM

The disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira – a timeline
Dom Phillips, a journalist and frequent contributor to the Guardian, set off on a trip to a remote part of the Amazon with his friend and guide Bruno Pereira to research a book. Their disappearance and murder ignited a campaign to urge Brazil’s authorities to act and shone a spotlight on the increasingly hostile environment in the world’s largest rainforest
Theresa Malone, Garry Blight and Niels de Hoog
17, Jun, 2022 @8:32 AM

Police losing narco war in deadly Amazon region where duo disappeared
A key police outpost lies in ruins after a daring raid – a sign of the growing danger in an increasingly lucrative smuggling route
Tom Phillips in Puerto Amelia and Dan Collyns in Flor de Ucayali
16, Jun, 2022 @4:40 PM

‘Girls make phenomenal tree climbers’: call for recruits to meet UK planting goals
Institute of Chartered Foresters says 70% more staff must be recruited to meet net zero targets
Sandra Laville
11, Jun, 2022 @6:00 AM
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