EnvironmentFinland's licensing authority ordered preliminary work at Muhos and Otanmäki stopped because the environmental impact assessment was incomplete; brown water is running into a river and wolves are entering villages.
EnvironmentThe Tropical Forest Forever Facility, launched at COP30 to pay up to $4 a year per hectare of standing tropical forest, has US$7.8 billion pledged by eight countries against a US$125 billion design, and its first payments are not expected before 2028.
LivestockAbout half the shareholder questions at Woolworths' annual meeting in Sydney came from conservation groups pressing on beef traceability, while Cattle Australia's deputy chair Adam Coffey defended producers from the floor.
EnvironmentFrom 30 December the EU will require proof that imported soymeal is not linked to deforested land, and Brazil's soy industry fears it could lose up to 4 million tonnes of sales to Argentina.
CropsTwo national workshops in Abidjan and Conakry, run by CGIAR researchers with 71 stakeholders, found that finance, markets, advice and secure rights over trees decide whether cocoa farmers can adopt agroforestry.
EnvironmentIndia's NHPC has sought permission to use 3,278 hectares of forest for the 1,720MW Kamala hydroelectric project; approval could mean felling more than 2.34 million trees and affect 5,440 families in 126 villages.
EnvironmentMore than a hundred trees, some 40 to 50 years old, have been cut on railway and government land at Faujdarhat in Sitakunda, Chattogram; locals say a group is levelling hillocks for a container depot, while the railway says it knows nothing.
EnvironmentBrazil's official PRODES satellite system recorded 3,335 square kilometres of Amazon forest cleared from August 2025 to July 2026, about 42 percent less than a year earlier and the lowest since records began in 1988.
EnvironmentThe Forest Declaration Assessment 2026 counts seven million hectares of forest lost in 2025, the sharpest annual drop since 2018-20, but a shortfall of 10.7 million hectares against the path to halting deforestation by 2030.
EnvironmentLawyers say intentional breaches of the EU Deforestation Regulation, which covers cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soy, rubber, wood and cattle, can carry prison terms of up to five years under the Environmental Crime Directive.
EnvironmentThe Forest Department says 10 to 11-year-old keora, gewa and baen trees were pulled up in its 75-hectare South Char Biswas mangrove plantation and embankments dug across about 200 acres; it has filed a general diary.
EnvironmentA Carbon Brief analysis finds Amazon deforestation more than halved between 2022 and 2025 as Brazil enforced its forest code, avoiding at least 20,000 square kilometres of clearing, while the end of the soy moratorium adds new risk.
LivestockAn Australian government webinar indicated the EU Deforestation Regulation will apply from 31 December after two delays, so beef and lamb shipped by sea from next month must comply.
