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Aerial view of CIRAD's Paracou station in French Guiana. At the site, more than 70 000 have been measured regularly since the start of the 1980s, providing valuable data for understanding the changes under way in tropical forests as a result of human activity © A. Dourdain, CIRAD

Results & impact 22 May 2020

Can tropical forests stand the heat? Yes, but only up to 32°C

What does science have to say about the links between "forests", "deforestation" and "emerging infectious diseases"? Researchers from INRAE, CIRAD, IRD and the Institut Pasteur in French Guiana analysed 565 scientific articles, and recently published their results in Environmental Research Letters © B. Locatelli, CIRAD

Results & impact 7 May 2020

Analysis of 65 years of work on the relationships between forests, deforestation and infectious disease emergence

© Clément Bourgoin, CIRAD

Call to action 19 March 2020

Protecting and restoring tropical forests is now an environmental and societal imperative

The remaining intact African forests are storing less and less carbon, like this one in the Republic of the Congo © S. Gourlet-Fleury, CIRAD

Results & impact 11 March 2020

In the tropics, intact forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon

In Paragominas (Brazil), land use planning players are using Forland to assess the impact of their decisions © H. Dessard, CIRAD

Event 10 March 2020

Forland, for sustainable, integrated territorial management

Coffee plantings and natural forest in Vietnam © C. Bourgoin, CIRAD

Science at work 24 October 2019

What’s driving tropical deforestation? Scientists map 45 years of satellite images

Forest