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If US president really wants to protect trees he should rethink his climate-wrecking policiesTrees are great. They give us oxygen, take away CO2, provide nests for birds and habitats for wildlife, protect against flooding and even help to clean up lung-shredding air pollutants from traffic.As the world’s forests come under increasing threat from fires, agriculture and logging, the WWF-led initia...
In September 2007, a paper by a group of Brazilian researchers was published in Geophysical Research Letters. The title was “Regional climate change over eastern Amazonia caused by pasture and soybean cropland expansion”. The opening line of the paper explains that, Field observations and numerical studies revealed that large scale deforestation in Amazonia could alter......
The last decade was pivotal for the world’s forests. The 2010s saw the rise of unprecedented new commitments — from governments and the private sector alike — to bring deforestation to heel. The UN REDD+ framework, the New York Declaration on Forests and the Sustainable Development Goals set out ambitious targets to conserve and restore millions […] The post 10 Big Changes for For...
10 Big Changes for Forests Over the Last Decade Comments|Add Comment|PrintA lot changed for the world's forests over the 2010s, but much remains to be done. Photo by flickrfavorites/Flickr. The last decade was pivotal for the world's forests. The 2010s saw the rise of unprecedented new commitments — from governments and the private sector alike — to bring deforestation to heel. The UN REDD+ f...
During a 2-year study of the fish and macroinvertebrates of a third-order montane stream, a severe drought in the first year resulted in a temporary cessation of surface flow. Flow was continuous during the second year. Some taxa (e.g. Ophiogomphus severus) exhibited higher density during the drought year, others declined in abundance during low flow (e.g. Baelis spp.), whereas a few (e.g. Tricory...
Eleven journalist from South East Asia ventured to the peatland in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, to learn about forest and peatland conservation efforts that put local communities at its core....
Eleven journalist from South East Asia ventured to the peatland in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, to learn about forest and peatland conservation efforts that put local communities at its core. Read more: https://forestsnews.cifor.org/63405/putting-people-at-the-heart-of-peatland-conservation-efforts-in-borneo...
Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: My father’s sapling has been bred to resist the deadly Dutch elm fungusAs I head out of the deciduous woodland of Foxes’ Grove, I spot it, tucked away near a small conifer plantation. Tall and skinny, with a few sprigs of growth sticking out from the slender trunk, this sapling is newly planted and decorated with shiny deer protection round its base. It appears insi...
Publication date: February 2020Source: Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 111Author(s): Richard Sufo Kankeu, Moise Tsayem Demaze, Max Krott, Denis Jean Sonwa, Symphorien OngoloAbstractSince the end of 2000s, many forest-rich countries have engaged into results-based deforestation reduction monitoring under REDD+ mechanisms. A set of methods and tools designed at international level is expected to...
Las cadenas de suministro de madera tropical verdes, los corredores biológicos y el monitoreo forestal son componentes importantes de las soluciones al cambio climático basadas en los bosques, según los participantes de un evento paralelo organizado por la OIMT y el Instituto de Investigación de Bosques y Productos Forestales de Japón (FFPRI) durante la 25ª ...
Video address by Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy, REDD+ Focal Point for Viet Nam, State Steering Committee for the Target Program on Sustainable Development and REDD+ Implementation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), filmed at the UN-REDD/ WCMC-UNEP "Subregional Exchange on Safeguards Information Systems: Moving from design to operation” event, a two-day practical workshop designed t...
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