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By Katherine Rowland of Nature magazine In the Congo Basin, Bayaka pygmies patrol their forests with handheld tracking devices. [More]

New positive numbers about the world's rainforests provide lessons on how to prevent deforestation: protect, plant, and pay. Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: 25%--amount of decrease in rainforest deforestation The climate is becoming increasingly unpredictable and global greenhouse gas emissions are increasing, but take heart: the destruction of the world's largest rainforests (the Amazon, Congo, and Borneo Mekong) is actually down 25%, according to a new report from ForestCarbon Asia .