photo: Chany Crystal via flickr

Though support, both political and financial, for the UN REDD forest protection scheme has been growing, there's also a growing opposition voice expressing the concern that, though keeping forests standing is a good thing, the REDD program could well run roughshod over the rights of

Photo: Herbi Ditl (Flickr)

Thanks to a tough gorilla marketing campaign and unrelenting online social media protests, the recent Nestle-vs-Greenpeace firestorm is getting interesting, with Nestle backpedaling, fast.

photo: International Union for Conservation of Nature

One of the fondest memories of my honeymoon was kayaking through the mangrove forests on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. The trees were mystical, something out of a fairy tale.