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The Guardian | How weaving, glamping and kayak tours are helping to tackle deforestation in Argentina’s Gran Chaco by Sophia Boddenberg in Chaco and Natalie Alcoba in Buenos Aires

Small farmers and community-led conservation efforts are trying to protect one of the biggest semi-arid forests in the world – under threat from expanding agriculture, wildfires and the ‘logging mafia’

Jorge Luna stands in a piece of Argentina’s Gran Chaco forest that he calls his own. Birds sing as he surveys skyscraping molle trees, known as pepper trees, palo santo and algorrobo, or carob trees. “It’s good wood,” says Luna, 55. “I was about to cut them down.”

Selling timber promises quick and easy money in the sprawling ecosystem that covers parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil. But it comes at a steep price, contributing to rampant deforestation and irreversible damage to the forest.

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How weaving, glamping and kayak tours are helping to tackle deforestation in Argentina’s Gran Chaco

Small farmers and community-led conservation groups are trying to protect one of the biggest semi-arid forests in the world – under threat from expanding agriculture, wildfires and the ‘logging mafia’

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World news | The Guardian Mar 18

England should give over 7% of land to nature and renewables to meet environmental targets, data shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/18/england-land-use-framework-nature-renewables-environmental-targets #Conservation #Farming #PlanningPolicy #RenewableEnergy #TreesAndForests #Environment #UkNews #Politics #Housing #Energy #England #SolarPower #WindPower #LocalGovernment

England should give over 7% of land to nature and renewables to meet environmental targets, data shows

Government’s first published land use framework maps how land is used and how it can be adapted to meet changing needs

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Environment | The Guardian US Mar 16

‘We cannot replace USAID, but we can do big things’: conservation plots a future without American money https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/16/conservation-trump-cuts-natural-world-usaid-funding-biodiversity-aoe #Conservation #Usaid #Biodiversity #Liberia #Wildlife #Environment #Africa #WorldNews #UsNews #TrumpAdministration #UsPolitics #AmazonRainforest #DemocraticRepublicOfTheCongo #UsForeignPolicy #TreesAndForests #Gabon #Colombia #Nepal #Animals #Amer...

‘We cannot replace USAID, but we can do big things’: conservation plots a future without American money

The Trump administration’s cuts to biodiversity funding have imperiled species, habitats and the people who defend both. Now the world is seeking a new way forward

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Science | The Guardian Mar 14

‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/14/my-ideas-are-a-little-revolutionary-ecologist-suzanne-simard-on-intelligent-forests-the-climate-and-her-critics #TreesAndForests #ClimateCrisis #ScienceAndNatureBooks #Environment #Books #Culture #Science #Biology #Plants #Fungi

‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics

Her research popularised the idea of the wood wide web, but the scientific backlash was brutal. As the author of The Mother Tree returns to the forest in a new book, she discusses her battle to reimagine our relationship with nature

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Environment | The Guardian US Mar 13

Nearly three-quarters of England’s woods inaccessible to public, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/13/nearly-three-quarters-of-englands-woods-inaccessible-to-public-study-finds #AccessToGreenSpace #TreesAndForests #Wildlife #Environment #England #UkNews

Nearly three-quarters of England’s woods inaccessible to public, study finds

Exclusive: Campaigners call for government to introduce right-to-roam bill that allows people to walk around their local woodlands

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Environment | The Guardian US Mar 8

BrewDog sold highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning reforestation plans https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/08/brewdog-sold-highland-estate-knockdown-price-reforesting #Brewdog #Conservation #TreesAndForests #Scotland #UkNews #Business #Environment

BrewDog sold Highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning its reforestation plans

Self-styled ‘punk’ beer company bought land in 2020, pledging to plant Scotland’s ‘biggest ever forest’

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Science | The Guardian Mar 3

Country diary: To the old quarry, for a Triassic quest | Jennifer Jones https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/03/country-diary-to-the-old-quarry-for-a-triassic-quest #Fossils #Biology #Science #Environment #RuralAffairs #UkNews #TreesAndForests

Country diary: To the old quarry, for a Triassic quest

Storeton Wood, Wirral: Two centuries ago, this landscape was being transformed by George Stephenson as he built Liverpool; more than 200m years ago very different creatures roamed here

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