A bold new investment fund aims to channel billions into tropical forest protection – one key change can make it better

By: Jason Gray, University of California, Los Angeles, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: November 10, 2025

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Last Updated: 2 weeks ago

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By Jason Gray, University of California, Los Angeles

The world is losing vast swaths of forests to agriculture, logging, mining and fires every year — more than 20 million acres in 2024 alone, roughly the size of South Carolina.

That’s bad news because tropical forests in particular regulate rainfall, shelter plant and animal species and act as a thermostat for the planet by storing carbon, keeping it out of the atmosphere …

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