Suriname gives ‘hope and inspiration to the world to save our rainforests’: UN chief 

Suriname might be the smallest and least populated country in South America, but it is also one of the greenest. Considered a global leader in biodiversity conservation, with more than 90 per cent of its land surface covered by native forests, the nation’s unrivaled natural resources more than make up for its size. 

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World Oceans Day underscores need to protect ‘the foundation of life’

07 Jun 2023

Over a third of global fish stocks are being harvested at unsustainable levels – just one example of how human activity is harming oceans, which cover more than 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface.

Natural resources must be ‘part of the solution’ in fight against deforestation

03 May 2022

Between 2010 and 2018, the rate of deforestation worlwide slowed by nearly 30 per cent compared to the previous ten years, according to a key report launched on Tuesday by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).    This farmland, once part of Tsitongambaraika forest – one of Mozambique’s few remaining stands of humid lowland forest, made up of 80 to 90 per cent of endemic species and home to five endangered species – was burned in preparation for the next crop.

Decade of climate breakdown saw 14 per cent of coral reefs vanish

05 Oct 2021

Between 2009 and 2018, the continuous rise in sea temperature cost the world 14 per cent of its coral reefs – that’s more than the size of Australia’s reefs combined – a UN-backed report revealed on Tuesday.