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#120527
2019-03-27

Saving Mumbai's natural mangrove buffer against rising tides

Young people in Mumbai are taking action to protect the city's vanishing mangrove forests. The trees, a vital flood defense, help protect millions of vulnerable people on India's coast from rising sea levels.

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#120477
2019-03-25

Forest protection efforts earn Indonesia millions

An innovative effort to keep trees in the ground and carbon out of the air is paying dividends in Indonesia — the fifth-highest emitter of carbon dioxide globally.Norway announced on 16 February that it will pay Indonesia for reducing its deforestation by 60 percent in 2017, as compared to 2016. ...

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#120491
2019-03-25

Hurricane Maria study warns: Future climate-driven storms may raze many tropical forests

A new study shows that damage inflicted on trees in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria was unprecedented in modern times, and suggests that more frequent big storms whipped up by a warming climate could permanently alter forests not only here, but across much of the Atlantic tropics. Biodiversity co ...

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#120463
2019-03-22

Des siècles seront nécessaires pour recréer les forêts d'Amérique du Sud

Lorsqu'un terrain proche d'une forêt tropicale redevient sauvage, il est rapidement colonisé par de nouveaux arbres. Mais la biodiversité met plusieurs siècles pour se reconstituer à l'identique.

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#120436
2019-03-21

Genetic diversity maps to help forests survive climate change

Forests have a special magic for many of us. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, they are places for enchantments, mythical creatures and outlaws. But if they are to survive into the future, they may also need a helping hand from science.

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#120437
2019-03-21

Africa: On International Day of Forests, FAO Announces New Forestry Education Initiatives

FAO marked the International Day of Forests today by announcing two new forestry education initiatives aimed at raising awareness among children and young people on the sustainable use and conservation of forests.

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#120448
2019-03-21

International Day of Forests: From Asia's mangroves to Amazon rainforest, take this quiz to check y

By 2030, the world population is expected to climb to 8.5 billion, making forests more important than ever. Every year, 21 March is celebrated as International Day of Forests in order to raise awareness on the importance of all types of forests.

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#120424
2019-03-19

Malawi: Learn About the Value of Indigenous Trees--and Plant One!

"This tree grows on one mountain in Malawi and there are hardly any left," says botanist Mark Nicholson, manager of a remarkable 40-hectare forest near Nairobi, Kenya, planted with over 650 species of indigenous trees and shrubs.

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#120429
2019-03-19

Forests and people are intertwined for development

“Forests and people are intertwined. Humans rely on forests for their basic needs: clean air, food, water, and raw materials for medicine, shelter and clothing.” This was stressed by Dr. Theresa Mundita S. Lim, Executive Director of the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, on the occasion of the Inter ...

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#120432
2019-03-19

International Day of Forests to be marked today

The national celebration of the International Day of Forests this year will be commemorated by the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) at the Forest Research Institute (FRI) here today.

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#120343
2019-03-13

When forests are not forests at all, can fire be used to better manage them?

In the last week of February, Bandipur Tiger Reserve lost over 60 square kilometres of forest to a massive fire, despite the best efforts of hundreds of people who tried to put it out. The incident was widely covered in the news, with sensational pictures of supposedly charred animals, grabbing ...

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#120234
2019-03-06

Insect food webs

The decline in biodiversity and the associated loss of plant species are greatly affecting our ecosystems. Thus far, this has been shown by studies in the so-called grassland, i.e. in areas that are not covered by buildings or are dominated by woody vegetation.

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#120247
2019-03-06

Tropical forests naturally regrow quickly, but without species variety

Tropical forests are threatened by high levels of deforestation, mostly driven by agricultural expansion. But, once agricultural fields are abandoned, they tend to naturally regrow, leading researchers to ask whether that process reverses species loss and brings native species back.

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#120197
2019-03-05

Forests can take decades to recover from fire

Wildfires and logging are sytematically ravaging the world's forests. While some loss makes way for regeneration, scientists warn that woodland takes a painfully long time to really recover.

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#120186
2019-03-04

In Nigeria, hunters turn into guardians of the rarest gorilla on Earth

Former bushmeat hunter Jacob Osang says poverty and lack of options drove him to the trade. “There were no jobs, no opportunity anywhere,” Osang says. In 1985, after failing to find a job in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, Osang, then in his early 20s, returned to his village in southeastern Cros ...

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#120187
2019-03-04

Europe’s forests threatened by biodiversity collapse, warn campaigners

A logging operation at Poland’s spectacular 55-mile-long Vistula lagoon is casting a “dark omen” of deforestation and biodiversity collapse across Europe’s forests, campaigners say.

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#120192
2019-03-04

How do you bring a forest back to life?

Half a millennia ago, forests covered much of the Iberian peninsula. But that soon changed. Centuries of wars and invasions, agricultural expansion and woodcutting for charcoal and shipping wiped out most of the woods and transformed places like Matamorisca, a small village in northern Spain, in ...

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#120178
2019-03-01

Au Brésil : grandes incertitudes sur la protection de la forêt amazonienne

Le Brésil reste marqué culturellement par son passé colonial de conquête du territoire. L’expansion du front pionnier vers le nord et l’ouest s’est faite au détriment de la forêt. L’appropriation est, elle, passée par la conversion des écosystèmes forestiers en terres agricoles ou en pâturages. ...

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#120108
2019-02-26

Recovering forests important to conservation, study finds

Tropical forests recovering from disturbance could be much more important to the conservation of forest bird species than first thought, according to a new study.

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#120109
2019-02-26

Kenya turns to earth observation technology to monitor forests

Kenya has resorted to the use of earth observation technology in order to enhance monitoring of degraded forests, an official said on Tuesday. Jamleck Ndambiri, project manager at the Kenya Forest Service (KFS), said that earth observation technology will help protect and restore tropical forest ...

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#120118
2019-02-26

Amazon forest can be trained by higher rainfall variability

The Amazon rainforest has evolved over millions of years and even through ice ages. Yet today, human influences and global climate change put this huge ecosystem at risk of large-scale dieback—with major consequences for its capability as a global CO2 sink. New research published in Nature Geosc ...

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#120119
2019-02-26

Elevation matters when it comes to climate change, deforestation and species survival

University of Toronto student George Sandler was shocked to see the rainforest floor suddenly come to life around him, as if in a scene from an Indiana Jones movie.

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#120049
2019-02-21

Protecting small forests fails to protect bird biodiversity

Simply protecting small forests will not maintain the diversity of the birds they support over the long run, a Rutgers-led study says.

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#120026
2019-02-20

Sensors take the manual work out of forest monitoring

SÃO PAULO] A remote monitoring system rolled out in Brazil is taking over the exhausting and risky task of keeping an eye on commercial forests.

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#120012
2019-02-19

Mystery disease killing beech trees

A mysterious disease that is killing beech trees is spreading across parts of the United States. Scientists say the disease, known as Beech Leaf Disease, has been recorded in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and parts of Ontario in Canada.

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#120019
2019-02-19

How the world got hooked on palm oil

It’s the miracle ingredient in everything from biscuits to shampoo. But our dependence on palm oil has devastating environmental consequences. Is it too late to break the habit?

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#119979
2019-02-18

Vietnam bolsters tree planting, livelihoods for forest growers

In 2019, Vietnam’s forestry sector will foster the implementation of forest development policies and the building of a production chain, said Vu Xuan Thon, head of the Management Board of Forestry Projects under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

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#119980
2019-02-18

Norway starts payments to Indonesia for cutting forest emissions

Almost a decade after Norway signed a $1-billion deal with Indonesia to help protect its tropical forests, the first payment for reduced emissions will be made after deforestation rates fell, environmentalists and government officials said.

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#119981
2019-02-18

5 reasons to protect mangrove forests for the future

To the uninitiated, mangroves might appear to be merely coastal cousins of inland forests, but these rich ecosystems support the planet and people in unique ways, from providing breeding grounds for fish to carbon storage, to protection against flooding.

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#119927
2019-02-14

Tree love this Valentine’s Day

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Forests News asked staff at Center for International Forestry Research Center (CIFOR) about their true love. Here’s what they had to say:

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#119916
2019-02-12

Canada's forests actually emit more carbon than they absorb — despite what you've heard on Facebook

You might have heard that Canada's forests are an immense carbon sink, sucking up all sorts of CO2 — more than we produce — so we don't have to worry about our greenhouse gas emissions.

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#119917
2019-02-12

Stirling University to study climate impact on forests

An £800,000 study led by Stirling University will investigate how European forests are affected by changing climates. The project will focus on the impact of warming climates on beech, Europe's most widespread broadleaf tree - covering more than 15m hectares.

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#119876
2019-02-11

Indigenous hardwood trees communicate climate resilience

When issues of forest conservation, adaptation, regeneration and restoration are discussed, rarely do we hear about the significance of indigenous hardwood trees’ role in the climate resilience matrix. Is it because they take long to grow or they are just brushed aside as not suitable enough to ...

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#119883
2019-02-11

Can genetically engineered trees help save the world's disappearing Forests?

Compared to gene-edited babies in China and ambitious projects to rescue woolly mammoths from extinction, biotech trees might sound pretty tame.But releasing genetically engineered trees into forests to counter threats to forest health represents a new frontier in biotechnology.

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#119848
2019-02-08

Northwest Forest Plan falling short of biodiversity goals

The Northwest Forest Plan was a groundbreaking policy to ensure wildlife habitat would not be lost to intensive logging in the western parts of Oregon, Washington and California. Now 25 years in, a new study shows it’s still a good ways off from achieving those goals.

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#119862
2019-02-08

99 % de la forêt sèche de La Réunion a disparu

La forêt sèche est une forêt située sur le flanc ouest de l’île, du nord au sud. Elle est essentielle sur l’île de part sa biodiversité exceptionnelle. Pourtant elle est menacée d’extinction. Depuis l’arrivée de l’homme sur l’île, elle a perdu 99% de sa superficie. Un projet européen baptisé Lif ...

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#119825
2019-02-07

Climate change: 'Future proofing' forests to protect orangutans

A study has identified key tree species that are resilient to climate change and support critically endangered apes. Planting them could help future proof rainforests, which are a key habitat for orangutans, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature - IUCN.

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#119810
2019-02-06

Swiss forests under attack from bark beetle

The level of spruce trees in Swiss forests damaged by the bark beetle has reached its highest in more than a decade. A survey by the Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Researchexternal link found that 735,000 cubic metres of spruce suffered damage last year – more than twice as muc ...

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#119767
2019-02-05

Into a new jungle: How do forests regenerate?

Forests are not only home to important species of animals and birds, but also store a lot of carbon in trees, which would have otherwise escaped into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and warmed the planet.

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#119775
2019-02-05

2019 can be the year we begin to save the world’s forests. Here’s how

The equivalent of 40 football fields-worth of tropical forests were lost every minute in 2017. Despite all the progress made by companies committed to reducing deforestation in their supply chains, commercial agricultural production of products such as palm oil, soy and beef remains the biggest ...

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#119680
2019-01-30

Citizen science in Kenya’s Rift Valley

Participation is widely seen as a cornerstone of sustainable resource management, and it’s a pillar of Kenya’s 2010 constitution, too. In the remote highland forests and water catchments of the country’s Rift Valley region, the involvement of the community in undertaking science work has deliver ...

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#119681
2019-01-30

Indian Farmers Are Building Food Forests to Fight Climate Change, Agrarian Crisis

While Amazon rainforests remain the world’s largest intact forest, according to recent research, the seemingly untouched forests were in fact manmade food forests. For thousands of years, humans were dependent on forests for food. In time, villages and farms replaced forests.

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#119682
2019-01-30

Biodiversity thrives in Ethiopia’s church forests

If you see a forest in Ethiopia, you know there is very likely to be a church in the middle, says Alemayehu Wassie. Wassie, a forest ecologist, has spent the past decade on a mission: preserving, documenting and protecting the unique biodiversity in pockets of forest that surround Ethiopia’s ort ...

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#119685
2019-01-30

Brasil: proponen modelo para producir etanol sin deforestar

Si Brasil integra el cultivo de caña de azúcar para etanol con la alimentación del ganado bovino en las mismas tierras de producción, contribuiría a satisfacer las demandas mundiales de alimentación y combustible sostenible sin aumentar la deforestación ni promover ninguna otra forma de cambio e ...

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#119650
2019-01-29

Sacred groves of north Kerala: The last refuge for biodiversity

Sacred groves in Kerala temple helped preserve the bio-diversity of the land. While many have disappeared now, in others, temples have grown bigger and wide roads paved through these forest patches.

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#119621
2019-01-28

What's got four legs and costs Sweden a billion kronor a year?

Sweden's forestry agency has warned that more trees of several varieties are needed across the country – to avoid the damage caused to pine forests by hungry elk.

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#119632
2019-01-28

Inequality promotes deforestation in Latin America

Tropical deforestation is a major contributor to climate change and loss of local and global ecosystem functions. Latin America accounts for a large share of remaining tropical forests, but also features deforestation rates well above the world average.

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#119549
2019-01-23

What do trees do when we are not looking?

Getting to the root of the dos, whys and workings of trees can be an obsession for forest researchers. And for my fellow obsessed- pinpoint accuracy is our common ambition. So why is this so hard to do?

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#119551
2019-01-23

Saving the forests of the Congo Basin: Q&A with author Meindert Brouwer

It was an ambitious project from the start: to capture the Congo Basin rainforest in the pages of a book. Stretching across an area larger than Saudi Arabia, the world’s second-largest rainforest straddles six countries in Central Africa.

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#119530
2019-01-22

Small trees are among the oldest in Congolese rainforest

Forest giants have long been considered the oldest trees in tropical forests, but new research shows small trees can also be very old, and can even grow older than the big ones.

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