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#1231552019-11-27
Ecosystems restoration is a grassroots response to global challenges
Interview with Musonda Mumba, UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) incoming chair of the Global Partnership on Forests and Landscape Restoration.
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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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#1201192019-02-26
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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#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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#1349482022-06-08
End old-growth logging in carbon-rich ‘crown jewel’ of U.S. forests: Study
A recent study of the Tongass National Forest, the largest in the United States, found that it contains 20% of the carbon held in the entire national forest system.
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#1207082019-04-10
Endangered pine marten spotted in Brussels forest
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.
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#1245492020-03-05
Environmental measures in Swedish forests will continue to be strong
In a recent opinion piece, a group of NGOs wrote that Sweden’s forest policy is wreaking havoc. Herman Sundqvist argues that this is wrong on several counts and that the country is working to improve environmental measures in the forest.
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#1261992020-12-11
Environmentalist suggests ways to preserve Saudi Arabia’s forests
In an interview with Arab News on Thursday, Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Sogair, a founding member of the Environmental Green Horizons Society — a group of Saudi-based environmentalists — suggested eight proposals that the group hopes will reduce deforestation in the Kingdom.
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#1331962022-02-15
Eucalypt of the Year: 25 species from tall to small vie for top tree
As a teenager, Dean Nicolle dreamed of planting one of every eucalypt species in Australia. He took his parents to nurseries and requested that they buy “any eucalypt with a different name on it”. Nicolle, a self-described “gum nut” who is now a botanist and ecologist, has been fascinated by pla ...
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#1216992019-07-25
Europe's forests are booming. Here's why.
Around the world, forests are shrinking due to deforestation, urban development and climate change, but in Europe that trend has been reversed.
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#1322042021-12-17
European stores pull products linked to Brazil deforestation
Several European supermarket chains are dropping Brazilian beef products linked to destruction of the Amazon rainforest and tropical wetland, the US activist group Mighty Earth said Thursday.
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#1201872019-03-04
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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#1191752018-12-21
Evaluation must be done
Scientists attending the U.N. Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP24 climate talks in Katowice, Poland, discussed potential solutions to slow global warming and stay below targets laid out in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.
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#1298752021-08-10
Examining the intricacies of ozone removal by deciduous forests
Ozone plays a vital role in Earth's climate system. In the stratosphere, which begins about six miles (9.7 kilometers) off the ground, ozone protects the planet from harmful ultraviolet radiation. Lower in the atmosphere, however, the molecule is an air pollutant injurious to both humans and pla ...
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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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#1231032019-11-25
Experts blame Bolsonaro for surge in deforestation, warn of worse to come
The highest rate of destruction of the Brazilian Amazon in over a decade is likely to worsen through the term of President Jair Bolsonaro if effective measures to halt deforestation don’t come into force, experts warn.
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#1192912019-01-08
Experts warn against mega-dams in lowland tropical forests
Mega-dams should not be built in lowland tropical forest regions due to the threat they pose to biodiversity and ecosystems, according to experts at the University of Stirling.
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#1260632020-12-08
Extent of forest plant biodiversity change in response to forest management depends on habitat fertility
An extensive study carried out collaboratively by the University of Helsinki and Natural Resources Institute Finland demonstrates that the plant community of a forest stand can thoroughly change after regeneration cutting, even when the number of species remains more or less unchanged.
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#1342622022-05-04
Extinction obituary: why experts weep for the quiet and beautiful Hawaiian po’ouli
The last po’ouli died in an unusual nest. Too weak to perch, the brownish-greyish songbird rested in a small towel twisted into a ring. He was the last of his species, the last in fact of an entire group of finches, and occurred nowhere on Earth outside its native Hawaii.
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#1322312021-12-20
Extreme droughts also afflicting Leipzig floodplain forest
The Leipzig floodplain forest was not equipped to endure two consecutive hotter drought years. Although the trees were able to partially cope with the 2018 drought, the accumulated and ongoing damage from drought stress caused their growth to collapse in the second drought year 2019.
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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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#1188452018-11-08
Federal government must act on national pine beetle problem
'Once a population begins expanding, they present a threat to forests for hundreds of kilometres downwind'Alberta is the frontline of a pine beetle epidemic that threatens to decimate forests from coast to coast. If you've been to Jasper National Park recently, you have seen the widespread devas ...
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#1239292020-01-24
Fifteen Years to Save the Amazon Rainforest from Becoming Savannah
The pace of deforestation in the Amazon, coupled with last year’s devastating forest fires, has pushed the world’s largest rainforest close to a tipping point beyond which it will turn from a carbon sink to a carbon source.
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#1320822021-12-07
Fighting for the Shade
Why Trees Should Be Our Next Great Conservation Crusade
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#1352902022-07-11
Firefighters attempt to save giant sequoias as Yosemite wildfire grows
A grove containing some of the world’s oldest giant sequoia trees is under threat from a rapidly growing wildfire at California’s Yosemite national park.
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#1221702019-09-11
Fires In Brazil’s Amazon Have Devastating Consequences – Analysis
A dense layer of pollution has plagued the Brazilian cities of São Paulo, Manaus and Cuiabá for days on end, rolling in from the large number of fires burning mainly in the southern Amazon.
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#1238072020-01-20
Fires set stage for irreversible forest losses in Australia
Australia's forests are burning at a rate unmatched in modern times and scientists say the landscape is being permanently altered as a warming climate brings profound changes to the island continent.
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#1246282020-03-11
First 'tiny forest' being planted in UK
Some 600 native trees from oaks, birches and elder to dogwood, crab apple and blackthorn will be planted in Witney, Oxfordshire.The UK is to get its first "Tiny Forest" in a plot the size of a tennis court to deliver benefits to urban communities and wildlife.
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#1248012020-03-20
Five (or six) solutions for saving the world’s forests and restoring landscapes
We’ve heard a lot about ambitious tree planting initiatives in recent months. Laudable as these may be – and we offer congratulations and celebrate the community-minded impetus behind them – we need a lot more than tree planting to restore degraded landscapes and to save the world’s forests.
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#1244822020-03-03
For Mexico’s forgotten cloud forests, sustainability and protection are key
In 2009, scientists estimated that Mexico’s tropical montane cloud forests — hillside woodlands blanketed in fog and rain — were down to 28% of their original extent. Fifty-three percent of what was left was considered secondary forest, regenerated from primary forest that had been cleared for a ...
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#1322842022-01-04
For epic trees and eco rays of hope, take a train to Epping Forest
I’m no slouch, but I’m struggling to keep up with Jeremy Dagley as he opens a gate off the A104, the main road through Epping Forest, and bounds into the woods.
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#1247962020-03-20
For my birthday, all I want is a healthy forest
When I think of the forest, I remember playing in it. We would build huts of sticks and moss, and vehicles from bamboo trees. Getting lost in the forest was a real adventure. We used to turn the forest into a navigation game. We could get a sense of orientation without a compass or a GPS.
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#1336852022-03-03
Forest Edges Are More, Not Less, Productive Than Interior Forest
Trees at the edges of forests often seem like an afterthought, but those trees may play an outsized role in carbon storage, new research from the northeastern United States has found.
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#1325482022-01-17
Forest Report brings out Arunachal Pradesh's loss of green gold
The India State of Forest Report 2021 has vindicated what activists, lawyers and academicians have been saying all along - Arunachal Pradesh, which is the second largest forested state in India, is losing its primary forests and that too at a large scale every passing year.
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#1248692020-03-25
Forest and farm producers are critical agents for a healthy planet - GhaFFaP
The Leadership of the Ghana Federation of Forest and Farm Producers (GhaFFaP) has acknowledged the central role of the forest in ensuring sustainable biodiversity for all forms of lives on the planet.
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#1279052021-04-06
Forest conservation crucial for bee preservation: ministry
The Ministry of Environmental Affairs and Forestry has said that forest conservation is an important part of efforts to preserve bees, which play an important role in pollination and preserving biodiversity.
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#1215622019-07-12
Forest conservation project converts bee-burners to beekeepers on Príncipe Island
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.
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#1207902019-04-17
Forest conservation: How drones can help save our forests from climate change
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.
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#1340502022-04-13
Forest coverage along upper reaches of Yellow River increases in decade
The forest coverage rate in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in Haidong City, Qinghai Province, has increased to 36 percent in 2021 from 28 percent in 2020 since Haidong implemented an ecological conservation strategy a decade ago.
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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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#1251132020-04-16
Forest loss could make diseases like COVID-19 more likely, according to study
A new study, by the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences at Stanford University has suggested that deforestation could lead to a rise in the occurrence of diseases like COVID-19.
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#1247972020-03-20
Forest loss drives viruses as well as climate change, indigenous leaders warn
The same forest destruction that accelerates climate change can also encourage the emergence of diseases such as the coronavirus, indigenous peoples' leaders said March 13 as they criticized Cargill and other multinational companies for replacing forests with soy, palm and cattle plantations.
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#1273892021-02-26
Forest patches amid agriculture are key to orangutan survival: Study
Over the past two decades, orangutan researcher Marc Ancrenaz watched as a tidal wave of oil palm has engulfed his once-forested research sites in northern Borneo. When he would find an orangutan in a patch of forest surrounded by planted palms, he said he figured the animal would soon disappear.
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#1204772019-03-25
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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#1281202021-04-21
Forest protection: Armed with phones and seeds, jobless Kenyans tackle illegal logging
Standing under a thick green canopy in coastal Kenya's Shim Hills, Mohamed Mwaramuno squints at his fellow forest ranger's smartphone. With about a dozen rangers, he has been using an app that through satellite feeds maps signs of forest fires, illegal logging and people encroaching on water sou ...
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#1187652018-11-01
Forest report points to opportunity for recovery
When it released its “State of the World’s Forests 2018” report in July, the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) seemed to have taken to heart that old corporate PR rule of thumb that in times of crisis you should say “opportunity” rather than “problem.”
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#1278462021-04-01
Forest restoration: a path to recovery and well-being
Forests and trees contribute to food security and well-being through provision of ecosystem services, foods, income generation and habitat for wildlife.
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#1195312019-01-22
Forest soil needs decades or centuries to recover from fires and logging
The 2009 Black Saturday fires burned 437,000 hectares of Victoria, including tens of thousands of hectares of Mountain Ash forest.
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#1240882020-02-05
Forest soils recovering from effects of acid rain
Before the United States 1970 Clean Air Act, rainfall all over the country was acidic. As precipitation would fall from the sky, it would mix with gases from industrial plants, emissions from cars, and especially coal and fossil fuel consumption. That caused the water to become acidic – also cal ...
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#1192442019-01-04
Forest soundscapes monitor conservation efforts inexpensively, effectively
Recordings of the sounds in tropical forests could unlock secrets about biodiversity and aid conservation efforts around the world,according to a perspective paper published in Science.