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#1216622019-07-22
Bolsonaro calls for tighter control of Brazil deforestation data
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday called for tighter control of official deforestation data, resuming attacks on government space research agency INPE, whose satellite imaging shows a jump in clearing of the Amazon rainforest this year.
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#1215622019-07-12
Forest conservation project converts bee-burners to beekeepers on Príncipe Island
On the small island of Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea, a community beekeeping project is empowering communities to obtain honey in a way that doesn't risk their lives.
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#1214982019-07-08
Massive reforestation is key to averting a climate catastrophe
Restoring the world’s forests on an unprecedented scale is “the best climate change solution available”, according to a new study.
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#1214732019-07-03
High-value opportunities exist to restore tropical rainforests around the world—here's how we mapped them
The green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Southeast Asia is turning brown.
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#1214432019-07-02
Dead mangrove forests in northern Australia found to emit more methane than live trees
Emissions from dead trees were eight times higher than those from the healthy trees
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#1214552019-07-02
'Football pitch' of Amazon forest lost every minute
An area of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of a football pitch is now being cleared every single minute, according to satellite data.
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#1214582019-07-02
Revealed: rampant deforestation of Amazon driven by global greed for meat
Investigation exposes how Brazil’s huge beef sector continues to threaten health of world’s largest rainforest
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#1214262019-06-28
The boreal forest is North America’s bird nursery — and we must protect it
Canada is not immune to the global biodiversity crisis. A new report on the state of Canada’s birds that shows perilous declines in birds from a wide range of Canadian habitats makes that abundantly clear.
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#1213522019-06-20
South African forests show pathways to a sustainable future
Native forests make up 1percent of the landscape in South Africa but could play a key role in reducing atmospheric carbon and identifying sustainable development practices that can be used globally to counter climate change, according to a Penn State researcher.
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#1213442019-06-18
Ban Ki-Moon: “We need to work together”
South Korea - After the Korean War in the mid-1950s, the Korean peninsula was divided, its economy and society in shambles and its forests devastated.
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#1213202019-06-17
Deforested areas bleed heat to nearby forests, drive local extinctions
Areas cleared of forests bleed heat to neighboring forests, and this fuels increases in temperatures there, new research has found.
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#1213152019-06-14
Drones deployed to monitor Brazil forest growth
[SÃO PAULO] Measuring the height of Brazil’s towering rainforests can be a tall order. But an international team of researchers say they are working together to turn unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, into efficient, low-cost data collectors that can monitor the progress of forest resto ...
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#1212962019-06-13
Is REDD ready for its closeup? Reports vary
Earlier this year, it was announced that Indonesia would receive the first installment of a total $1 billion in funds pledged by Norway to preserve the Southeast Asian nation’s tropical forests.
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#1211952019-05-24
Tall and old or dense and young: Which kind of forest is better for the climate?
In 2007, Richard Branson, the British business magnate, offered a $25 million prize to anyone who can invent a device capable of removing significant volumes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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#1211172019-05-21
The future of forests: How to balance development with conservation?
Preserving and restoring the world’s forests is arguably the most important thing humanity can do to keep the climate crisis in check as global carbon emissions continue to rise.
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#1211182019-05-21
AU to launch Africa's forestry management framework in 2020: official
NAIROBI, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Africa's sustainable forestry management framework will be launched in early 2020 to guide the continent in sustainable exploitation of forest resources, an African Union (AU) official disclosed on Monday.
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#1210942019-05-20
Intensive silviculture accelerates Atlantic rainforest biodiversity regeneration
An experiment conducted in Brazil in an area of Atlantic Rainforest suggests that intensive silviculture, including the use of herbicide and substantial amounts of fertilizer, is a more effective approach to promoting the regeneration of tropical forest and biomass gain than the traditional meth ...
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#1211012019-05-20
The rare rainforests of Scotland in urgent rescue bid
Some of Scotland’s largest nature conservation organisations are joining forces to save the country’s dwindling rainforests.
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#1210782019-05-16
A global map to understand changing forests
An international collaboration of hundreds of scientists—led in part by the Forest Advanced Computing and Artificial Intelligence (FACAI) Laboratory in Purdue's Department of Forestry and Natural Resources—has developed the world's first global map of tree symbioses.
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#1210672019-05-15
Scientists estimate: Half of tropical forests under hunting pressure
Hunting is a major threat to wildlife in tropical regions. A previous study led by Ana Benítez-López at Radboud University, showed that bird populations declined on average by 58 percent and mammal populations by 83 percent in hunted forests.
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#1210092019-05-10
INTERVIEW-Falling coffee prices mean falling forests - US coffee czar
On a warming planet, prices could experience further "peaks and valleys"
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#1210102019-05-10
Sea level rise will transform coastal forests into ghost forests
As sea levels rise, the ocean water kills salt-sensitive trees in coastal forests, leaving behind “ghost forests” of bare snags. Researchers at North Carolina State University have investigated how such changes in vegetation will affect various bird species.
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#1210012019-05-09
Yemen’s forests another casualty of war amid fuel crisis
[Sanaa] The four-year conflict in Yemen which has pushed huge swathes of the population close to famine has also left the country with a severe fuel crisis.
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#1209802019-05-08
New research shows community forest management reduces both deforestation and poverty
Giving local communities in Nepal the opportunity to manage their forests has simultaneously reduced deforestation and poverty in the region, new research has shown.
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#1209582019-05-06
Cut emissions and poverty, not trees, by letting locals manage forests
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving local communities the responsibility to manage forests - which are shrinking worldwide - could help ease poverty and deforestation, scientists said on Monday in what they described as one of the largest studies of its kind.
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#1209352019-05-03
What the world can learn from West Africa’s unheard
Burkina Faso - In the forested parklands in northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso lie diverse mosaics of cultivated fields mixed with useful trees, fallows, remnant woodlands and forest reserves.
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#1209072019-05-01
Ghana is losing its rainforest faster than any other country in the world
Ghana’s rainforest is being lost at an alarming rate, according to a new report about the state of forests worldwide.
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#1208502019-04-25
The natural comeback of tropical rainforests in the savanna region
Artificial savanna naturally turns into tropical rainforest when annual burning regimes are discontinued.
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#1208562019-04-25
Deforestation: Tropical tree losses persist at high levels
Around 12 million hectares of forest in the world's tropical regions were lost in 2018, equivalent to 30 football fields per minute.
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#1207902019-04-17
Forest conservation: How drones can help save our forests from climate change
It’s no secret that the world’s forests are under threat. But while climate change and deforestation are threatening many of the world’s most important woodlands, drones may be key to future forest conservation.
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#1207912019-04-17
Largest ever survey of England’s forest wildlife
Forests are an amazing environment to see and hear wildlife,” says wildlife TV presenter Michaela Strachan. “From birds nesting, finding food and hunting in the canopy, to the abundance of insects living on the forest floor. There’s usually way more life living in a forest than is noticeable at ...
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#1207922019-04-17
Cameroon: What Cameroon Can Teach Others About Managing Community Forests
A quarter of a century ago, Cameroon passed a law which gave people living on the edge of forests the right to own and manage forest areas.
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#1207932019-04-17
New FAO project supports sustainable management of forests and bioenergy capacity building in Seychelles
Sustainable management of forests and bioenergy assessment with capacity building in Seychelles are two new projects being supported by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).
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#1207972019-04-17
Why Green Pledges Will Not Create the Natural Forests We Need
Experts agree: Reforesting our planet is one of the great ecological challenges of the 21st century. It is essential to meeting climate targets, the only route to heading off the extinction crisis, and almost certainly the best way of maintaining the planet’s rainfall. It could also boost the li ...
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#1208112019-04-17
La biodiversité du sol améliore les fonctions forestières
Plus les organismes du sol sont variés, plus une forêt est en mesure de remplir des missions importantes, comme le filtrage de l'eau et de l'air. C'est le résultat d'une étude européenne avec la participation de l'Institut fédéral WSL.
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#1208142019-04-17
RDC: le retour naturel de la forêt tropicale humide dans la savane de Manzonzi
La savane artificielle se transforme spontanément en forêt tropicale humide si on arrête d’y mettre le feu chaque année. Telle est la conclusion d’une expérience naturelle menée par des chercheurs du MRAC (Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale à Tervuren), de l’Université de Gand, du WWF et de l’INE ...
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#1208152019-04-17
Akira Miyawaki à l’origine des micro-forêts 100 fois plus riches en biodiversité
Le botaniste japonais, Akira Miyawaki est le précurseur de la création des micro-forêts natives qui sont 10 fois plus rapide, 30 fois plus dense, avec 100 fois de plus de biodiversité qu’une forêt traditionnelle. L’initiative est baptisée « MiniBigForest » où comment faire pousser 300 arbres sur ...
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#1207432019-04-12
The mysterious karstland forests of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Among the jagged rocks, sinkholes and caves carved out of limestone, Baratang in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands also houses a species-rich, diverse forest that is quite different from the surrounding tropical evergreen forest typical of the inland areas of the islands.
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#1207362019-04-11
Peru: Get to know the diverse wildlife of the cloud forests of Pampa Hermosa
Biologist Sean McHugh, along with filmmaker and photographer Jasmina McKibben, recently traveled to the Colibri cloud forest in Peru’s Pampa Hermosa district in search of the spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus). They knew it is an area rich in biodiversity that had been studied very little.
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#1207082019-04-10
Endangered pine marten spotted in Brussels forest
For the first time in two years a pine marten - which is endangered in Belgium - has been spotted in the Sonian Forest on the outskirts of Brussels.
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#1206822019-04-09
Natural forests best bet for fighting climate change, analysis finds
Natural forests are 40 times more effective than plantations for storing carbon, making them the best option for slowing the global average temperature rise, a group of scientists says.
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#1206982019-04-09
Forêt : une restauration rapide, mais dans le désordre
La nature reprend ses droits quand des terres déboisées ne sont plus exploitées. Une forêt, dite secondaire, se réinstalle. Mais à quel rythme ? Et dans quelle mesure ressemble-t-elle à une forêt primaire ?
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#1206782019-04-08
In Delhi Lies a Forest Uprooted
On the morning of April 4, I visited a little-known but curiously interesting semi-wild patch of forest abutting the Dera Mandi village in south Delhi with my friend Vijay Dhasmana. An immense pile-up of alluvium – more than 80 feet high in places – makes this landscape look like a miniature ver ...
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#1206632019-04-05
Why We Can’t See The Forest For The Trees: Lack Of Diversity
Though people from all walks of life visit our national forests, those who manage, care and study for them aren’t as diverse. An overwhelming 95 percent of foresters and conservation scientists are white, according to the Census Bureau.
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#1206272019-04-04
The forests protected by deities
India has a long tradition of conserving nature by giving it a spiritual dimension. There is a symbiotic relationship between the biophysical ecosystem and socio-economic institutions. Culture and environment are complementary yet dynamic. The various cultural connections are expressed through m ...
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#1206112019-04-02
The hotter it gets, the more forests act as insulators
Using data from about 100 sites worldwide, an international research team has demonstrated that forest cover acts as a global thermal insulator by cooling the understory when the air temperature is high.
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#1205902019-04-01
Restore natural forests to meet global climate goals
International plans to restore forests to combat global warming are flawed and will fall far short of meeting 1.5C climate targets, according to new research by UCL and University of Edinburgh scientists.
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#1205672019-03-29
Wee Orange 'Pumpkin' Frogs Have Bones That Glow Through Their Skin
In eastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest, poisonous "pumpkin toadlets" use their vivid colors to warn off predators. But these tiny frogs also broadcast a secret visual signal: They glow bright blue under ultraviolet light.
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#1205522019-03-28
The paramedics of the rainforest
A new generation of data collectors and support scientists are proving vital to the overall health of the rainforest ecosystem – just like paramedics – thanks to projects funded through the UK Government’s Darwin Initiative.
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#1205262019-03-27
A Simplified Model of Water Vapor Exchange in the Amazon
Evapotranspiration is the exchange of water vapor between land and the atmosphere, and it is hard to measure and model. A new study shows promise for its estimation over large, vegetated landscapes.