A new study has shown areas of state forest in Northern New South Wales, currently zoned as hardwood eucalypt plantation and ...

In a eucalyptus plantation in Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR) in southern India, abandoned for nearly 40 years and allowed to regenerate, researchers found that the number of tree species ...

Not all plantations need to be the biological deserts that have come to characterize large-scale, industrial plantations. According to scientists, well-planned plantations can actually alleviate some ...

A recent surge of large-scale land concessions for plantation agriculture is creating environmental and social problems across the Dry Forests and Greater Annamites areas of Cambodia and Lao PDR.

It’s well-known that forest clear-cuts adversely affect stream flows in multiple ways, such as by increasing surface temperatures, damaging water absorbing organisms and causing faster runoffs. Not so ...

The ecological impacts of forest plantations are a focus of intense debate, from studies that consider plantations as "biological deserts" to studies showing positive effects on plant diversity and ...

From tree-planting drives to tighter laws on illegal logging, countries worldwide are searching for a silver bullet to stop ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Indonesia has reported a second straight year of declining deforestation, and credited more stringent land management policies for the trend.

Rising wildfire risk in the Pacific Northwest combined with notoriously volatile timber pricing may lower forestland values by as much as 50% and persuade plantation owners to harvest trees much ...

Wildfires show no respect for property lines, but a new analysis of the 2013 Douglas Complex fire in southwestern Oregon concludes that young plantation forests managed by industrial owners ...