As Extreme Wildfires Threaten Forests, Indigenous Leadership Offers Solutions

In 2024, WRI Madagascar developed an approach to bridge the gap between global tree cover loss data and deforestation within Madagascar’s natural forests.

Climate change is making forest fires worse, and vice-versa — creating a vicious “climate-fire feedback loop.”

With emissions from deforestation and other disturbances like fires rising, the world’s forests risk shifting from a carbon sink to a carbon source.