Alaskan tribes, activists and businesses sue to save America's biggest national forest

Tongass national forest, which plays a key role in fighting climate crisis, poised for logging after US ruling

A coalition of Alaskan native tribes, conservation groups and small businesses have filed a lawsuit in an effort to save America's largest national forest by overturning one of the Trump administration's most contentious environmental rollbacks.

Protection for the Tongass national forest in Alaska, one of the world's last intact temperate rainforests, which plays a crucial role in fighting climate change, has been gutted by a recent US government decision to overturn a two-decade ban on logging and road building.