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#1321952021-12-16
Editorial - Protect forests
Instead of allowing the people to build houses in the forest areas, they can be leased under the leasehold policy.
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#1321992021-12-16
Strategic Forest Reserves Could Mitigate Climate Change, Protect Biodiversity
Researchers call for the creation of strategic forest reserves in the western United States.
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#1321802021-12-15
Scientists urge creating strategic forest reserves to mitigate climate change, protect biodiversity
The United States should immediately move to create a collection of strategic forest reserves in the Western U.S. to fight climate change and safeguard biodiversity, according to a scientific collaboration led by an Oregon State University ecologist.
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#1321622021-12-14
Forests: an unrecognized force for adaptation to climate change
Trees are known climate change mitigators, but scientists now push their power to adapt.
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#1321682021-12-14
Climate benefits of forest restoration revealed
Tropical forests are converted at an alarming rate through deforestation, but also have the potential to regrow naturally on abandoned lands. Studies published recently show that regrowing tropical forests recover surprisingly fast and identify the best types of trees for aiding in this action.
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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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#1321472021-12-13
Solving multiple challenges while considering biodiversity and human rights
Strict social and environmental safeguards must be followed to prevent harm to biodiversity or human rights while advancing the scope of nature-based solutions in climate mitigation, a new report says.
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#1321322021-12-10
New tool launched to track Europe’s 3bn trees target
Under the European Green Deal, the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 commits to planting at least 3 billion additional trees in the EU by 2030.
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#1321362021-12-10
Trees in the wetlands emit more methane than researchers thought
Historically the thick green of the Amazon has been our planet’s largest carbon sink, though this tipping point has also been breached earlier this year. But a new wave of research over the last few years, including a new study published recently in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Societ ...
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#1321392021-12-10
WWF-Malaysia, Sabah sign deal on forest conservation
The State Government has signed a MoU with WWF-Malaysia to enhance inclusive conservation practices in Sabah focusing on biodiversity conservation and maintaining forest ecosystem integrity through responsible forest governance.
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#1321402021-12-10
Tropical forests can regenerate in just 20 years without human interference
Study finds natural regrowth yields better results than human plantings and offers hope for climate recovery
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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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#1321072021-12-09
Colombian Amazon: casualty of peace
In just a few minutes, an enormous century-year-old tree is felled by an electric saw in the middle of a protected national park. The giant collapses, sending a shockwave through the Colombian Amazon.
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#1321092021-12-09
Why has illegal logging increased in the Greater Mekong?
Recognizing the impact of the timber trade on natural forests, governments in the Greater Mekong region have come up with laws to regulate logging and timber exports.
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#1320972021-12-08
Eye in the Sky, Eyes on the Ground
How the change in colour of a pixel on a screen can set off a series of events that leads to the empowerment of local communities to conserve their globally important forest.
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#1320982021-12-08
Indonesia's biodiesel drive is leading to deforestation
Indonesia pledged at the recent COP26 climate summit that its greenhouse gas emissions would peak by 2030 and then start to fall. It's also said that it will end deforestation by that same date. But to reduce emissions from its transport sector, it's relying on using more biofuels - production o ...
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#1321002021-12-08
Tree-planting goals miss the forest for the lack of diverse, good-quality seeds
Ambitious plans by India, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines to restore tens of millions of hectares of degraded land by 2030 could be derailed by a lack of good-quality and genetically diverse native seeds, according to a new study.
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#1320822021-12-07
Fighting for the Shade
Why Trees Should Be Our Next Great Conservation Crusade
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#1320832021-12-07
60% of Nigeria’s forest lost to degradation – Official
The Conservator-General, National Park Service, Dr Ibrahim Goni, said 60 per cent of Nigeria’s valuable forest estate have been lost to degradation.
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#1320592021-12-06
Study Shows There is Hope For the Recovery of Tropical Forests After Deforestation
Deforestation is leading to the disappearance of tropical forests at an alarming rate, although they have the ability to recover naturally in abandoned areas. An international research headed by Wageningen University scientists revealed this.
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#1320702021-12-06
The 'agricultural mafia' taking over Brazil's Amazon rainforest
Encouraged by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and local authorities who want to see the development of agribusiness, an "agricultural mafia" is taking over the Amazon rainforest.
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#1320342021-12-03
Exclusive: Court deals blow to 'invaders' at Amazon reserve
Just days after the publication of a wide-ranging investigation into illegal cattle production in the Jaci-Paraná reserve, a protected area in Rondônia, a regional court declared unconstitutional the state government's attempt to legalize the destructive ranches.
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#1320102021-12-02
Wildfires of Varying Intensity Can Be Good for Biodiversity
The spate of furious wildfires around the world during the past decade has revealed to ecologists how much biodiversity and “pyrodiversity” go hand in hand.
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#1320212021-12-02
The future of habitat restoration: the Atlantic Forest way
From new forest corridors to the production of shade-grown commodities, restoration work in the Atlantic Forest of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay is crossing country borders and taking landscape conservation into new realms of ingenuity.
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#1319862021-11-30
Amazon deforestation is rising. Guyana offers a rare bright spot
Trees cover 90 percent of land in Guyana, a country experts say can offer insights into protecting the world’s largest rainforest.
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#1319872021-11-30
Govt to engage local communities in management of small natural forests
The ministry of environment is to engage local communities in conservation decision making in its latest efforts to save some small natural forests from human encroachment.
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#1319902021-11-30
Wood Wide Web: Scientists to map hotspots of fungal life
A science mission is set to explore one of the final frontiers of untapped knowledge on the planet - the fungal networks in the soil beneath us.
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#1317332021-11-16
Deforestation can raise local temperatures by up to 4.5 degrees Celsius, and heat untouched areas 6 km away
Forests directly cool the planet, like natural evaporative air conditioners. So what happens when you cut them down? In tropical countries such as Indonesia, Brazil and the Congo, rapid deforestation may have accounted for up to 75% of the observed surface warming between 1950 and 2010. Our new ...
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#1316662021-11-15
Poland's 'priceless' primeval forest pits environmentalists against state
Stopping by a giant oak tree in Europe's largest surviving primeval forest, environmental journalist Adam Wajrak pauses in admiration.
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#1316672021-11-15
Introduction to Forest-climate Action
Climate change is having widespread negative impacts on 1.3 billion people dependent on forests for their livelihoods and wellbeing. Many of the 720 million people globally who will be pushed into extreme poverty through climate change by 2050, for example, are forest-dependent.
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#611841st Session European Forestry Commission (EFC) - FAO
9 - 12 November 2021
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#1313202021-10-29
Imported deforestation: How Europe contributes to tree loss worldwide
Forest area is increasing in Europe, mainly because farms are getting fewer and smaller. This should be good news, but it must be put into perspective alongside the loss of forest that the EU's growing agricultural imports cause in third countries. We call this "imported deforestation."
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#1312552021-10-28
The global economy depends on forests – let’s act accordingly
The world’s economy is currently a free rider on the vital services forests provide. This system needs to be replaced by investment into forest protection which sees trees as what they are – the natural infrastructure our economy is dependent on, argues Daniel J. Zarin.
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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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#1311912021-10-26
This Is How It Ends: Why our forest 'lungs' are dying
They are our lungs. But New Zealand’s treasured native forests are facing a range of deadly threats, including kauri dieback, myrtle rust and exploding deer numbers. Andrea Vance and Iain McGregor report, for Stuff’s This is How it Ends series.
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#1311932021-10-26
Green Gold: Billion Dollar Question for Congo Rainforest
On the brink of an unprecedented environmental emergency, EU ambassadors to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) gathered earlier this month for a luxury river cruise hosted by the country’s Environment Minister, Eve Bazaiba.
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#1310972021-10-22
Why the Belowground Ecosystem Matters
Trees get all the credit. But for a forest, the belowground ecosystem—soil, roots, fungi, and microorganisms—is equally important.
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#1309742021-10-20
Turkey to plant 4 million trees in burnt forests of Adana, Osmaniye
Turkey had to battle an unprecedented number of wildfires throughout the summer that burned countless forested areas to the ground. As the smoke clears, reforestation efforts are set to get underway to heal the wounds left by the blazes, particularly in the south.
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#1309752021-10-20
'Wee Forests': Plans unveiled for COP26 urban tree planting programme
Eight new green spaces to be planted across Glasgow to help city celebrate upcoming Climate Summit, as ITV announces plans for major ramp up of climate coverage
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#1309512021-10-19
Amazonian ecosystems and peoples on the brink – it is time for a new vision
A code red for humanity. These were the words of the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, summarizing the strong messages of the latest IPCC report on climate change. Among the most urgent messages is the unequivocal human influence on the climate system, the increased frequency and intensity ...
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#1307452021-10-13
To predict forest loss in protected areas, look at nearby unprotected forest
Protected forests, such as those in national parks, are unlikely to be cut down when surrounded by intact forests. Conversely, when a protected forest’s neighboring lands are degraded, it’s likely that deforestation will encroach into the protected area as well, according to a new study.
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#1306962021-10-12
To save forests, researchers are hooking trees up to Twitter
In July 2018, a century-old red oak went live on Twitter. The account @awitnesstree, tweeting from the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, introduces itself in its bio:
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#1307012021-10-12
UN deforestation scheme under scrutiny after Indonesia debacle
The collapse of a $1-billion deal to curb Indonesian deforestation has highlighted the pitfalls of a UN-backed global initiative, which critics say has been ineffective and trampled on indigenous communities' rights.
Meeting
#61333rd Carpathian Network of Protected Areas (CNPA) Conference
29 - 30 September 2021, Visegrad, Hungary
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#1305532021-09-23
Africa’s remaining forests are under pressure: This is no time to sideline forest carbon markets
We need both carbon offsetting and deep decarbonization at source, not either/or, to make substantive progress with climate change.
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#1305112021-09-22
Driven away by forest fires, wild horses return to Turkey’s Antalya
One month after the forest fires that ravaged the southern Turkish province of Antalya, wild horses who fled their habitat are back to Eynif Plain. Herds of free-roaming horses in Ibradı district, one of the locations hit by the forest fires that continued from July to August, dazzle visitors to ...
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#1305262021-09-22
When a tree falls in the forest, you can still hear the birdsong
On a cold and humid morning in March, two bird surveyors stood in the dim forests of Kenaboi State Park in Malaysia, straining their ears for birdsong. From where they stood, they saw towering rainforest trees and thick undergrowth beside abandoned logging trails.
Meeting
#611431st Session North American Forest Commission (NAFC) - FAO
20 - 24 September 2021, Oaxaca, Mexico
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#1304962021-09-20
4 famous giant trees unharmed by Sequoia National Park fire
Four famous giant sequoias were not harmed by a wildfire that reached the edge of Giant Forest in California's Sequoia National Park, authorities said.
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#1304402021-09-15
Latin American and Caribbean forests are key to environmental sustainability and global food security
The Latin American and Caribbean Forestry Commission highlighted the strategic role of regional forests in improving livelihoods, countering climate change and halting biodiversity loss.