New Technology Revolutionizes the Way Countries Are Fighting Deforestation: 'The Better the Chances of Taking Preventive Action'

New technology revolutionizes the way countries are fighting deforestation: 'The better the chances of taking preventive action'

A forest monitoring platform, Ground Truthed.id (GTID), has launched in Indonesia to fight deforestation by making it easier to track the legality of commodities like palm oil, timber, and other forest-risk products.  This comes at a time when Indonesia is reportedly ramping up its efforts to mitigate forest-risk products as the European Union Deforestation Regulation is set to be enforced at the end of the year. The tool will "make it easier to…

EU anti-deforestation law could overlook big violators, NGO warns

The European Union’s landmark anti-deforestation law could fail to deliver on its environmental promises if enforcement authorities disproportionately focus on small importers while missing less obvious violations from major commodity firms, according to a new analysis by U.K.-based investigative nonprofit, Earthsight. The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which comes into force Dec. 30, 2025, aims to […]

The novel that had multiple chapters last year related to the regulations sanctioned by the European Union (EU) that demands that exports of soybeans and meat to that market be from “deforestation-free” zones, revived in the last hours and not in the best way. It happens that the EU published a list of importing countries and classified them according to their risk precisely related to deforestation, creating a sort of traffic light where the pa…