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#1351962022-07-05
Ambulances for plants: Meet India’s ecological emergency service
An ambulance speeds through the streets, but it doesn’t have blue lights or any kind of siren. And instead of medical equipment, it is stocked with gardening tools, fertilizers and ladders.
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#1289532021-06-01
Andaman forests need longer intervals between repeat logging for recovery: study
To the untrained eye discerning between evergreen and deciduous tree mosaics of the Andaman archipelago can be tough in the wet season but the patches clearly stand out in the dry season in the volcanic ridge-arc islands.
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#1312252021-10-27
Annie Proulx on climate loss: In New Hampshire forests, the threat of ash annihilation looms
My earliest memories are of coins of sunlight falling through feathery branches, from the time when my mother put me under trees for naps. The play of light through the shifting leaves and green-tinted air established my life-long ideal of beauty. Southern New Hampshire, where I now live, is an ...
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#1226682019-10-15
Are Plantation Forests Eco Friendly Or Just ‘Green Deserts’?
A forest is a complex, biodiversity-rich, self-regenerating ecosystem, consisting of soil, water, microclimate, and a wide variety of plants and animals in mutual coexistence, on a piece of land. Trees are naturally regenerated in ‘natural forests’. Natural Forests have high biomass density, i.e ...
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#1258862020-11-26
Aroma of lemongrass oil fills Anchunadu forests
Verdant fields of lemongrass cover the forest areas of Anchunadu where the traditional distilleries fill the air with the refreshing aroma of lemongrass oil.
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#1296322021-07-22
As soy frenzy grips Brazil, deforestation closes in on Indigenous lands
The thick plumes of smoke stretched for miles across this slice of Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, blanketing the dense rainforest surrounding it. Soon, they drifted across the river and into the Wawi Indigenous Territory, a black cloud settling above the thatched rooftops of the Indigenous village ...
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#1257252020-11-17
As the pandemic pushes millions towards poverty, forests and trees can safeguard livelihoods
With the coronavirus pandemic driving millions of people into poverty, no stone should go unturned in the search for income opportunities for the most vulnerable That’s why protecting forests and trees—a natural and underrated ally in efforts to reinforce the livelihoods of rural communities ar ...
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#1228492019-11-01
Assam, French agency sign 50-mln euro forest restoration pact
Assam on Monday signed a pact worth 50-million euros with a French agency to help restore the state's forests and preserve its biodiversity, officials said. The partnership marks the launch of the second phase of the Assam Project for Forest and Biodiversity Conservation (APFBC).
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#1201782019-03-01
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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#1240742020-02-03
Australian bushfires-why they are unprecedented
Australia has extraordinarily high levels of biodiversity and is one of 17 countries with ‘megadiversity’ of plant, insect and animal life. Of the more than 600,000 predicted species in Australia, only 30% have so far been discovered, documented and named.
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#1265432021-01-11
Award-winning Thai community continues the fight to save its wetland forest
Srongpol Chantharueang remembers his parents telling him as a boy always to protect the local wetland forest when he grew up. They told him that the ecosystem would be important for his life and that of his community. “I didn’t understand what they meant at the time,” he told Mongabay via a vide ...
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#1235322019-12-19
B.C.'s clear-cut forests are 'dead zones,' emitting more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels, report finds
The clear-cutting of B.C.'s forests is contributing more to greenhouse gases than the burning of fossil fuels, according to a new report from the Sierra Club of B.C. The report found that 3.6 million hectares of old-growth and second-growth forests were clear-cut in the province between 2005 and ...
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#1325522022-01-17
Baby elephant enjoys lovely forest feast, watch viral video here
Well-aware of her habits, the keepers always have a stash of lucerne pellets ready in their pockets to treat the baby elephant.A video clip showcasing the antics of a baby elephant is winning hearts on the internet. In the video, baby elephant Enkesha can be seen enjoying her lovely forest feast ...
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#1236072020-01-07
Balance ecology and economy
The environment ministry has proposed a controversial scheme through which infrastructure projects involving diversion of forest land could compensate for loss of forests by buying ready-made plantations.
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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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#1325622022-01-17
Bare-faced curassows return to Argentina’s Iberá after 50-year absence
Biologist Sofía Zalazar wasn’t born yet the last time a bare-faced curassow was seen in the Iberá forests in Argentina. The bird began disappearing from the wild in the 1970s, surviving only in small populations in forest areas in the provinces of Chaco and Formosa, in the northeast of the country.
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#1255552020-11-05
Better health - for people and the planet - grows on trees
Two of humanity's biggest problems - the climate crisis and abysmal eating habits - can partly be solved by one healthy solution: eating more food from trees, specifically tropical ones. While global trends in agriculture and diets are not easily reversed, scientists say that creating incentives ...
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#1235772020-01-06
Biodiverse forests better at storing carbon for long periods, says study
As the effects of climate change are increasingly felt around the world, possible solutions—from reducing fossil fuel emissions to capturing carbon—have come to dominate policy discussions. Planting new forests and restoring existing ones have emerged as some of the best ways to capture CO2, sin ...
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#1279022021-04-06
Biodiversity is essential to humanity’s survival － and Malaysia is losing it
The recent report that a total of 567 plant species out of the 1,600 Peninsular Malaysia plant species assessed in the Malaysia Red List have been classified as threatened should be a cause for alarm.
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#1263402020-12-18
Biodiversity may be at risk near Prince George, B.C., says forestry watchdog
An independent investigation into how the province manages some of its oldest forests has found industry practices may be putting biodiversity at risk, according to a statement from the province Thursday. The B.C. Forest Practices Board, an independent industry watchdog, says in the statement th ...
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#1196822019-01-30
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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#1321702021-12-14
Biodiversity: Between passion and reason, how to (re) think about the “forest of tomorrow”
Emblems of biodiversity, forests have become a symbol of the constant progression of human pressures on ecosystems. New expectations are emerging within society, contributing to growing tensions between actors in the forestry sector, in particular public and private managers, and the general public.
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#1321212021-12-09
Biodiversity: Three billion additional trees by 2030 – launch of MapMyTree tool
Today, the European Commission together with the European Environment Agency (EEA), are publishing a data tool — MapMyTree — for all organisations to join the pledge of planting three billion additional trees by 2030, register and map their planted trees to count the EU target.
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#1273472021-02-25
Black-browed babbler found in Borneo 180 years after last sighting
In the 1840s, a mystery bird was caught on an expedition to the East Indies. Charles Lucien Bonaparte, the nephew of Napoleon, described it to science and named it the black-browed babbler (Malacocincla perspicillata).
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#1220142019-08-27
Bolivia: catastrophic wildfires devastate forest in echo of Brazil's Amazon crisis
Bolivia’s president announced he would interrupt his re-election campaign for a week to help coordinate foreign aid efforts
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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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#1220202019-08-27
Bolsonaro expresses ‘love’ for Amazon as it burns, offers no policy shift
The number of fires in the Amazon biome topped 41,858 in 2019 as of August 24 (up from 22,000 this time last year).
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#1347952022-05-31
Borneo: Forests for a better future
Indonesia has lost nearly a fifth of its forests in just the last 20 years. But the island of Kalimantan, also known as Borneo, is beginning to see signs of change.
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#1196852019-01-30
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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#1219952019-08-22
Brazil forest fires rage as farmers push into the Amazon
Forest fires are surging in Brazil, with the country's space agency reporting almost 8,000 fires already this year.
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#1322022021-12-17
Brazil wildfires killed an estimated 17 million animals
Amid the bleakness of 2020, scientists in Brazil concluded a particularly grim conservation study - attempting to count the animals killed by huge wildfires in the Pantanal wetlands.
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#1249942020-04-02
Brazil, a tapir is born in the Atlantic Forest for the first time in over a century
The tapir is an important species, crucial to its ecosystem because so many others depends on it. These strange, funny-looking creatures – the last remaining specimens of the Perissodactyla order – are thus able to literally shape the environment they inhabit.
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#1335852022-02-28
Bridges in the sky carry sloths to safety in Costa Rica
Every morning, Anna Baltodano and Michael Chizkov look out from their terrace in search of sloths. Notoriously slow-moving and with fur the color of tree branches, the animals blend into the trees where they sleep, eat and move — ever so languidly — among monkeys, iguanas and toucans.
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#1300852021-08-20
Burning forests and burning coal: Turkey’s climate conundrum
The forest fires that raged across the Mediterranean for the past few weeks have brought levels of devastation to the Southern coast of Turkey not seen in decades. With almost 300 blazes and a total scorched area that is nine times the average of previous years, the blazes initially overwhelmed ...
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#1192282019-01-03
COP24: Green groups warn of pitfalls in ‘forests for climate’ deal
A plan adopted by delegates at last month’s climate summit in Poland to weaponize forests in the fight against global warming could have a disastrous outcome, environmentalists say.
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#1249932020-04-02
COVID-19 lockdown: Wild animals freely roam Bihar’s forests and fields
Wild animals are freely roaming human settlements in Bihar as people stay inside their homes due to the 21-day nationwide lockdown in the wake of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. A leopard has been spotted roaming in an Indian Air Force base near Patna. Nilgai antelope have bee ...
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#1238112020-01-20
California’s trees could shift as global warming forces birds to move out
Forests are critical to slowing climate change because they soak up huge amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. Birds help keep forests healthy by eating insects that spread tree-killing diseases. Birds also scatter seeds that give rise to new trees. If birds leave, the forests could be in tro ...
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#1245602020-03-06
Cambodia: Building a Nested System to Protect Remaining Forests
While many in the REDD+ community argue over whether project or national scale crediting is better, Cambodia is creating a system to enable both—recognizing that reversing deforestation requires both national policies and local actions.
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#1249542020-03-31
Camera traps completed one of the most thorough surveys of African rainforest yet
Tropical rainforests are the world's richest land habitats for biodiversity, harbouring stunning numbers of plant and animal species. The Amazon and the Congo basins, together with Asian rainforests, represent only 6% of Earth's land surface, and yet more than 50% of global biodiversity can be f ...
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#1275242021-03-04
Camera traps reveal newly discovered biodiversity relationship
In one of the first studies of its kind, an analysis of camera-trap data from 15 wildlife preserves in tropical rainforests has revealed a previously unknown relationship between the biodiversity of mammals and the forests in which they live.
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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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#1198832019-02-11
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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#1327322022-01-25
Can we save our sequoias and fire lilies from climate change?
Standing in a sunlit grove of stately giant sequoias is a simultaneously humbling and uplifting experience. Dwarfed by the world's largest living organisms, some of which have stood since the fall of ancient Egypt and the onset of the Iron Age, we are reminded of our own insignificance in the gr ...
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#1199162019-02-12
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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#1228162019-10-31
Carbon bomb: Study says climate impact from loss of intact tropical forests grossly underreported
The study calculates new figures relating to intact tropical forest lost between 2000-2013 that show a staggering increase of 626 percent in the long-term net carbon impacts through 2050. The revised total equals two years' worth of all global land-use change emissions.
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#1299092021-08-11
Casualty of war: Yemen's forests at risk as fuel crisis surges
Beset by violence, engulfed by chaos for years, Yemen's problems might be on the verge of growing even more and spilling into an environmental crisis as well.
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#1240872020-02-05
Charcoal-coated seedballs are re-planting Kenya’s lost forests.
Teddy Kinyanjui, one of Seedballs Kenya's co-founders, is on a mission to reverse Kenya's deforestation. The seedballs' charcoal coating protects the seeds inside and helps local trees repopulate deforested areas.
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#1189812018-12-11
Chile's pine forests: a botanical dinosaur bound for extinction?
In Quinquen, an indigenous community in southern Chile, Ricardo Melinir shows off a forest of Chilean pine trees—the araucaria araucana, a "living fossil" seen as sacred by several local tribes.
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#1187502018-10-31
Chocolate: Origins of delicacy pushed back in time
Chocolate has been a delicacy for much longer than previously thought. Botanical evidence shows the plant from which chocolate is made was first grown for food more than 5,000 years ago in the Amazon rainforest.
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#1186582018-10-24
Chopping forests to plant durians like killing goose that lays golden eggs
Durian farmers are "shooting themselves in the foot" if they continue to clear the forest for durian plantations, conservation groups said.