A summit on how to protect the world's largest forests held recently in Gabon was dominated by the issue of who should pay for the protection and reforesting of lands that are home to some of the world's most diverse species and contribute to limiting planet-warming emissions.
Two hours by boat from Belém, the state capital of Pará in Brazil, in the small village of Acará-Açu, wood houses rise on thin piles on the banks of the Acará River. This community has lived for decades on subsistence farming, mostly beans and manioc. Cacao was growing wildly in their gardens, but they didn’t […]