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#1297142021-07-27
School 'food forests' turn empty land into edible landscapes
It's part of an English project gone wild, according to Marco Onichino. The former Grade 8 student at Port Elgin Regional School was asked to come up with an idea that would help the environment.
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#1296442021-07-23
5 reasons why tropical forest protection should be central to corporate climate strategies
There is no solution to the climate crisis without ending tropical deforestation. Over the next decade, protecting forests around the world is critical to reaching a 1.5C pathway, while also supporting sustainable development and enhancing biodiversity. Unfortunately, despite recent efforts to r ...
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#1296582021-07-23
Water-forest interactions complex but crucial in ecosystem service delivery
Planting trees among the maize and bean crops of her smallholder farm in Kenya has helped Margaret Muchanga to increase yields, improving her family’s food and financial security and offering lessons in agroforestry that she can share with her community and spread the benefits.
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#1296022021-07-22
The Tarkine rainforest transports you back in time – and perhaps to a future where we value Australia’s remaining treasures
Australian wildlife. Koalas, platypus, wallabies. We use them as our emblems, put them on our coins, name our sporting teams after them and companies use them as logos. Echidnas, dingoes, kangaroos
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#1296302021-07-22
Amazon and Cerrado deforestation, warming spark record drought in urban Brazil
Central and southern Brazil are facing their worst drought in almost a century, with many of the country’s giant hydroelectric power plants already operating at a fraction of full capacity, agricultural harvest forecasts being scaled down, and fears mounting that Amazon fires will be worse than ...
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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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#1295912021-07-21
Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests
In 2019, Norway committed to pay $150 million to Gabon to protect its forests under the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI). After independent verification of the country’s deforestation rates in 2016 and 2017, Gabon recently received its first $17 million payment, making it the first Afric ...
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#1294502021-07-07
Mountain Forest Loss in Southeast Asia Accelerating At Unprecedented Rate
Southeast Asia is home to roughly half of the world’s tropical mountain forests. These highland ecosystems support massive carbon stores and tremendous biodiversity, including a host of species that occur nowhere else on the planet.
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#1294512021-07-07
Superior National Forest could provide refuge to wildlife as the climate warms
It’s a large region with rich and diverse habitats that provide homes for many plants and animals. So it’s an important resource – especially as the climate warms and species’ geographic ranges shift.
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#1294522021-07-07
Enchanted forests: British woods and moors at night – in pictures
The woods are lovely, dark and deep – at least in the images of Jasper Goodall. In Twilight’s Path, he stays awake to capture nocturnal landscapes in the forests and on the moors of the British Isles
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#1294532021-07-07
Dogcams and dark forests: how The Truffle Hunters captured a beautiful, dangerous world
Poisoned bait, clandestine missions, top secret locations … we meet the directors of a film about the extraordinary Italians who forage for a delicacy that’s worth thousands
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#1294292021-06-29
Scientist uses sound recordings to monitor rainforest biodiversity in Borneo
When you walk through a forest, you might not catch a glimpse of many birds and animals. But chances are, you can hear them.
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#1293192021-06-15
Lessons from Zambia on promoting sustainable wood fuel management
In Zambia, around 90 percent of domestic energy derives from wood fuel in both urban and rural areas. But with demand rising, protecting woodland areas in forest reserves and open lands through more sustainable sourcing is becoming more critical than ever, scientists say.
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#1293262021-06-15
Marbled cat: Candid Animal Cam meets the mini clouded leopard
Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting a wild cat that looks like a miniature version of the clouded leopard: the marbled cat.
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#1292922021-06-14
Irrigation dams threaten Thailand’s tiger forests, say conservationists
A plan to construct seven dams in one of mainland Southeast Asia’s last intact forest systems could cause widespread habitat loss and sever important wildlife corridors, activists warn.
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#1293042021-06-14
Costa Rica May Become a Pioneer in Reforestation of Fruit Trees
Surely you have ever heard or read, that he who perseveres achieves, and that perseverance is a fundamental key in all purposes. The aforementioned is applicable to everything you want to do, it is part of the day to day, like the air we breathe.
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#1292262021-06-11
'We Have History': Kenya's Last Sacred 'Kaya' Forests Need Saving From Rampant Mining
Wearing a crown of cowry shells and traditional regalia, Hillary Mwatsuma intoned a prayer to the ancestors who have been laid to rest in Kaya Kauma, one of 45 sacred forested villages scattered along Kenya’s southern coast, since the 16th century. The thick canopy encircling the ancient kayas, ...
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#1292392021-06-11
The biodiversity of the Amazon could be a global granary against the food insecurity of the planet, it says in article – 06/10/2021 – Environment
The biodiversity of the forests in the Amazon and worldwide is not only important as a refuge for native species or as a storage facility for greenhouse gases. It can also be viewed as a global granary that plays an important role in the food security of the planet, say two Brazilian researchers.
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#1291862021-06-10
Inside the battle to save Canada’s ancient, old-growth forests
Vancouver Island, Canada – A colossal battle to save the last temperate rainforest on Vancouver Island, Canada is under way, as police and forest protectors are engaged in a cat-and-mouse chase through hundreds of kilometres of thick woods.
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#1291142021-06-07
Yemen's unique 'dragon's blood' island under threat
Centuries-old umbrella-shaped dragon's blood trees line the rugged peaks of Yemen's Socotra—a flagship symbol of the Indian Ocean archipelago's extraordinary biodiversity, but also a bleak warning of environmental crisis.
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#1291272021-06-07
Save Fairy Creek: The battle over Western Canada's ancient forests
Nolan Paquette started working part-time at his local sawmill more than 20 years ago while still at school, pushing a broom on the clean-up team. Now 38, Paquette drives trucks and operates machinery at the same Western Forest Products-owned (WEF.TO) mill in Duke Point, Nanaimo, the third genera ...
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#1290592021-06-04
Mark Ruffalo elevates a petition to save BC's old growth forests
Mark Ruffalo might be green on the outside as the Incredible Hulk, but he seems to have some green inside of him as well.The petition is looking for 75,000 signatures in hopes of putting a stop to BC’s logging of old growth forests.
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#1289962021-06-02
Tree choices important for addressing climate change
Tree species in Africa’s upland mountain rainforests can adapt both photosynthesis and leaf metabolism to warming. But the ability to do so varies from species to species, according to studies from a new doctoral dissertation.
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#1290192021-06-02
The dangers of deforestation for our planet
Forests are an important part of the global ecosystem. Due to factors such as population and agricultural expansion, deforestation and illegal timber trade, current forest protection is facing a severe situation.
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#1289502021-06-01
The dangers of deforestation for our planet
Commentary: In recent years, the area of tropical rainforests has decreased at an alarming rate. Strengthening of global cooperation and restoring degraded and damaged forests have become a major focus of international relations, with the survival of forests closely related to the sustainability ...
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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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#1288302021-05-25
Unless we assign real economic value to our forests we are lost
Gabon has been climatically and politically one of the most stable places in Africa. This in great part explains the exceptional biodiversity of the country, which has retained much of its cover of lush tropical rain forest over the Pleistocene era – the last 2.5 million years – when other parts ...
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#1287082021-05-20
Less forest, more species
Normally, mountain forests are among the most diverse habitats in alpine regions. Yet, as a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute discovered in the Tibetan Plateau, the higher, treeless areas are home to far more species. Their findings, which were just published in the journal Nature Communica ...
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#1287292021-05-20
Native forest logging makes bushfires worse – and to say otherwise ignores the facts
The Black Summer bushfires burned far more temperate forest than any other fire season recorded in Australia. The disaster was clearly a climate change event; however, other human activities also had consequences.
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#1286842021-05-17
Why Ecologists Are Haunted by the Rapid Growth of Ghost Forests
For years, Emily Ury traversed North Carolina’s coastal roads, studying patches of skeletal trees slain by rising seas that scientists call "ghost forests." Killed by intruding saltwater along the Atlantic Coast, they are previews of the dire fate other forests face worldwide.
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#1286852021-05-17
The first mangrove forest with full carbon calculation enters the carbon market
For the first time since scientists recognized the carbon-sequestration power of mangroves, known as blue carbon, the carbon value of a mangrove ecosystem – a 11,000-hectare mangrove forest in Cispata, Colombia – has been fully calculated. The new measurement accounts for not just the roots, tru ...
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#1286912021-05-17
Tree species diversity is no protection against bark beetle infestation
Ecologist from Freiburg investigates pest infestation in forests with mixed and monoculture tree stands. Their findings are published in Journal of Ecology.
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#1286242021-05-14
Forest ecosystem backbone of rural economy
The World’s Forests-2020 released by the FAO reports that forestscovered 4.06 billion hectares or approximately 31 per cent of theglobal land area. In India about 21.67 per cent of the geographicalarea is covered by forests.
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#1286342021-05-14
Rallying the public to save Bolivia’s forests: Q&A with Gina Méndez
After Brazil, the South American country that lost the greatest area of primary forest over the past twenty years is Bolivia. The land-locked nation has seen its diverse forests rapidly shrink despite a much-publicized law to protect the rights of Mother Earth and commitments to protect the inte ...
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#1286372021-05-14
Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?
People have been planting trees to restock forests for a very long time. In the 16th century, for instance, wealthy landowners in Britain and Europe established tree plantations to supply timber for shipbuilding. In the 13th century, Portugal’s King Afonso III had a pine forest planted, known as ...
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#1285722021-05-12
Tanzania: Destroy Forests Today, Meet Bleak Future Ahead
SEVERAL studies globally have painted a picture where humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth's remaining wilderness in the last 25 years, and there may be none left within a century if the trends continues in our lifetime.
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#1285732021-05-12
Since 1960, Earth's Forest Cover Has Shrunk About 1m Sq Km While Cropland, Pastures Have Increased
Whether it's turning forests into cropland or savannah into pastures, humanity has repurposed land over the last 60 years equivalent in area to Africa and Europe combined, researchers said Tuesday. If you count all such transitions since 1960, it adds up to about 43 million square kilometres (16 ...
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#1285742021-05-12
UC Berkeley: As Global Climate Shifts, Forests' Futures May Be Caught In The Wind
Forests' ability to survive and adapt to the disruptions wrought by climate change may depend, in part, on the eddies and swirls of global wind currents, suggests a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
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#1285752021-05-12
How to develop the urban forest
Nature is in trouble. A keynote research report, The State of Nature 2019 identified that 58 per cent of UK species have declined since 1970 (by which point nature had already been depleted).
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#1285762021-05-12
Millions of hectares of forest have grown back since 2000
Tbilisi: From Mongolia to southern Brazil, forests big enough to cover France have grown back during the last 20 years, but the gains did not make up for losses elsewhere.
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#1285922021-05-12
A Madagascar-sized area of forest has regrown since 2000
An area of forest larger than Madagascar has regrown around the world since 2000, concludes an analysis published by Trillion Trees, a joint conservation initiative between BirdLife International, WCS, and WWF. The regrowth, covering 58.9 million hectares and representing 22-25 billion trees, co ...
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#1285312021-05-11
Hantavirus study shows restoring forests can reduce zoonotic disease risk
The COVID-19 pandemic brought zoonotic diseases into the global spotlight in a way nothing has done for a century, even though zoonoses — diseases passed between humans and animals — have always posed a public health threat. The coronavirus pandemic, however, has forced us to confront the connec ...
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#1285322021-05-11
Forests the size of France regrown since 2000, study suggests
An area of forests larger than mainland France has regrown around the world since the turn of the new millennium, a new analysis suggests.
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#1285112021-05-07
4 Reasons to Value U.S. National Forests
From Maine to California and Florida to Alaska, America’s national forests encompass more than 188 million acres of woodlands, meadows, mountains, and rivers. Managed by the U.S. Forest Service, these lands are a national treasure, rich with ecological, social, cultural, and economic value that ...
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#1285122021-05-07
The Wolf Tree and the World Wide Web
I WIPED MY glasses and glanced nervously through the trees. Fresh bear prints were climbing from the creek toward the hillcrest. I fumbled through the back of my vest and found my bear spray. I pulled off the safety, just in case.
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#1285132021-05-07
Mangrove forests on the Yucatan Peninsula store record amounts of carbon
Coastal mangrove forests are carbon storage powerhouses, tucking away vast amounts of organic matter among their submerged, tangled root webs.
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#1284472021-05-06
Giant sequoia found still smoldering after 2020 California wildfire
Scientists have discovered a giant sequoia still smoldering in California’s Sequoia national forest, months after wildfires tore through the region last August.
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#1284542021-05-06
Scientists urge greater role for forests in policies on food security and nutrition
A new policy brief demonstrates the role forests and trees play in sustaining food production and food security and nutrition (FSN).Featuring four dimensions of FSN, including availability, accessibility, utilization and stability, it aims to inform policy and decision making in forestry, while ...
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#1283982021-05-05
University Of St Andrews: Chocolate Is Egg-Cellent For The Birds
As many of us enjoy tucking into our Easter Eggs today (Easter Monday 5 April), a study led by the University of St Andrews in collaboration with the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, has shown that ethically sourced chocolate can support wildlife.
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#1283642021-04-30
Map of African forests shows areas most vulnerable to climate crisis
Much of the conversation surrounding the ecological benefits of tropical rainforests focuses on South America's Amazon. However, the forests of Central Africa are just as important. While the Amazon is the largest contiguous rainforest in the world, Central Africa's rainforests are the world's s ...