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The climate is changing and you can too: Traditional knowledge for adaptation to climate change The project "The climate is changing, and you can too" works in areas with fragile Andean-Amazonian ecosystems whose communities are trying to adapt to climate change. Based on real-life testimonies and case studies from the communities, the project analyses the vulnerability and adaptation conditions and uses this information to develop public policy recommendations and advocacy activities to help them cope with the impacts of climate change. (TBI) 05 Oct 2011 - 09:45 UTC

The Carbon Forest from "A 'first' for First Nations: New carbon forest takes root in Ontario," (July 21, 2010), Yahoo News, Finance: available here. "This creative partnership will help launch a new enterprise that will train our community to develop and manage carbon forests, creating jobs and a new sustainable industry, which mirrors our environmental values," said Chief Patrick Waddilove of the Munsee-Delaware Nation. Tree planting on Munsee-Delaware Nation land is expected to be completed by August 2010.... (Tree Canada) 13 Sep 2011 - 10:00 UTC

Dvinsky Forest Conservation Project The JI project area comprises 68,934 ha of prevailing primary taiga forest in the Northern Dvina and Pinega watershed. The area has been selected by WWF Russia and the Administration of Arkhangelsk Region as it is located in the central part of one of the biggest intact forests in Europe and for its high conservation value. It is the last forest area that has not yet been leased to logging companies. Although plans have already been developed by the Forestry Complex Department to include the forest... (WWF Russia) 13 Sep 2011 - 09:58 UTC

Restoration of Degraded Lands of Small and Medium Farmers through Afforestation and Reforestation Fundación Chile, the leading non-for-profit organization in the country devoted to innovation and technological transfer, envisioned a project that could change the depressing prospect of the secano interior. Since 1999 it worked to develop a model of forest securitization that would promote: Improvement in the productivity of degraded lands through reforestation; Participation of land owners to generate economies of scale for land restoration activities; and Incorporation of state-of-the-art silviculture... ( Fundación Chile) 13 Sep 2011 - 09:57 UTC

BaumInvest Reforestation Project BaumInvest has established a remarkable ecologically and socially sound reforestation project with tropical precious woods in Central America. The aim of the project is to reforest pasture land previously used for extensive cattle ranching in northern Costa Rica using mixed stands of various indigenous tree species as well as teak. The project area covers 216 ha within the biosphere reserve ‘Agua y Paz’ recognized under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere programme. It constitutes part of the habitat... (BaumInvest) 13 Sep 2011 - 09:55 UTC

Holistic Conservation Programme for Forests in Madagascar The Holistic Conservation Programme for Forests (HCPF) in Madagascar aims at Reducing greenhouse gases (GHG) Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) of the Malagasy forest. By February 2012, it will help to achieve the following objectives: 1. Improve knowledge on effective and verifiable measure of the impact of field activities to reduce GHG emissions and to a lesser extent, to sequester CO2 already present in the atmosphere. 2. Improve the living conditions of local communities... (HCPF) 13 Sep 2011 - 09:31 UTC

Mantadia Corridor Reforestation Initiative One component of the Mantadia Corridor project, the Madagascar Ministry of the Enviornment and its partners reforested just over 3,000 ha, creating a forest corridor to link fragmented habitats between the Analamazaotra Special Indri Lemur Reserve, the Maromizaha Private Forest and Mantadia National Park complex in east-central Madagascar. These parks are at the core of the remaining fragments of the Malagasy rainforest, are extremely rich in terms of biodiversity, and continue to be severely deforested.... (Conservation International ) 13 Sep 2011 - 09:27 UTC

Makira Forest Protected Area Project In 2001, the Madagascar Ministry of Environment, Forest and Tourism, in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), launched a program to create the 372,470ha Makira Forest Protected Area and to finance it through carbon markets. This action protected one of the largest remaining contiguous tracts of low and mid-altitude rainforest in eastern Madagascar—ecologically and biologically important because of the high biodiversity value and large numbers of plants and animals found nowhere... (WCS) 13 Sep 2011 - 09:24 UTC

Platform TRIDOM - (TBI) 31 Aug 2011 - 13:57 UTC

Post-felling inspections of community forests in Lomie, East Cameroon. - (TBI) 31 Aug 2011 - 13:57 UTC

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