Forests - Forests: What's New

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With your support, we can conserve and restore forests around the world for people and nature.

Learn more about our most recent successes, developments and news on forest conservation:

World leaders have agreed to form a Forest Carbon Partnership. Find out why the Conservancy was a key player in this effort. (June 8, 2007)
Tell Congress: Protect Our Trees, Protect Our Way of Life. Existing laws can stop invading pests and diseases — but only if those laws are enforced. (May 2007)
A new Conservancy report examines the disastrous toll that nursery-trade imports are taking on U.S. forests. (February 2007)
Biofuels yes, but not at the expense of forests. More biofuel production could "burn" the biodiversity of forests. (January 2007)
The Conservancy and partners have secured $120 million to protect Canada's Great Bear Rainforest. (January 2007)
Maryland moves to stem spread of the invasive emerald ash borer in order to save millions of trees. (January 2007)

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Ron Geatz/TNC (Upper Yangtze River in Yunnan Province in China); Photo © Mark Godfrey/TNC (Fire regieneration).