If tens of thousands of miners turned up in the middle of a protected rainforest to mine for sapphires, you might expect that to cause lots of deforestation and harm local wildlife. Mining has a very ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In Indonesia’s Flores highlands, the Manggarai people once practiced diverse agroforestry that blended farming with forest care — traditions ...

A 3,348-hectare (8,273-acre) protected forest established by a carbon credit project in Cambodia and encompassing the customary lands of several Indigenous Bunong communities has been destroyed ...

University of Manchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. If tens of thousands of miners turned up in the middle of a protected rainforest to mine for sapphires, you might expect ...