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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.
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 ?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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).
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Artificial savanna naturally turns into tropical rainforest when annual burning regimes are discontinued.
Around 12 million hectares of forest in the world's tropical regions were lost in 2018, equivalent to 30 football fields per minute.
Ghana’s rainforest is being lost at an alarming rate, according to a new report about the state of forests worldwide.
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.
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.
Giving local communities in Nepal the opportunity to manage their forests has simultaneously reduced deforestation and poverty in the region, new research has shown.
[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.
On a warming planet, prices could experience further "peaks and valleys"
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Some of Scotland’s largest nature conservation organisations are joining forces to save the country’s dwindling rainforests.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[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 ...
Areas cleared of forests bleed heat to neighboring forests, and this fuels increases in temperatures there, new research has found.
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.
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.
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.
Emissions from dead trees were eight times higher than those from the healthy trees
An area of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of a football pitch is now being cleared every single minute, according to satellite data.
Investigation exposes how Brazil’s huge beef sector continues to threaten health of world’s largest rainforest
The green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Southeast Asia is turning brown.
Restoring the world’s forests on an unprecedented scale is “the best climate change solution available”, according to a new study.
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.
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.
Today the European Commission adopted a comprehensive Communication setting out a new framework of actions to protect and restore the world's forests, which host 80% of biodiversity on land, support the livelihoods of around a quarter of the world's population, and are vital to our efforts to fi ...
Around the world, forests are shrinking due to deforestation, urban development and climate change, but in Europe that trend has been reversed.
Campaigners hail scheme to protect and restore forests around the world as ‘pivotal step’ towards ensuring goods remain untainted
With scrutiny around corporate strategies related to deforestation intensifying, a select group of companies representing the forestry sector have published the latest in a series of industry-specific guides meant to help meaningful corporate action take root.
Ethiopia - Yesterday Ethiopia began its ambitious 4 billion tree planting program.
A new study generated improved annual maps of tropical forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon in 2000-2017 and provided better characterization on the spatio-temporal dynamics of forest area, loss and gain in this region.
Deforested areas in Brazil’s most imperiled biome, the Mata Atlântica, were reduced by 9.3 percent from October 2017 to April 2018, compared year-to-year, according to a joint report from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica, an NGO.
Jewel weevils are so good at deterring predators with their iridescent displays, other beetles are mimicking them, new research shows.