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#1283072021-04-28
Turning the tide on deforestation – challenges and opportunities
With under a decade left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, we face a serious challenge in halting deforestation and restoring landscapes that we have already damaged.
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#1282622021-04-27
Loss of fauna in tropical forests impedes achieving Sustainable Development Goals
The current loss of biological diversity is unprecedented and species extinctions exceed the estimated background rate many times over. Coinciding with increasing human domination and alteration of the natural world, this loss in abundance and diversity is especially pronounced with – but not li ...
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#1282632021-04-27
6 guiding principles for successful restoration of tropical forest landscapes
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) has been hailed as one of the most critical and effective solutions to mitigate climate change, conserve and build biodiversity, reverse land degradation and restore and maintain sustainable livelihoods.
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#1282652021-04-27
Limited value of tree plantations for biodiversity conservation
Plantations are home to significantly less beetles than old-growth forests.Leipzig/Jena/Halle. Tree plantations are supposed to help compensate the loss of pristine forest habitats.
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#1282822021-04-27
'Make Or Break Moment' For World's Forests': UN Deputy Chief
:"Forests are at the core of our efforts to restore our relationship with the natural world," the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said at the UN Forum on Forests, a New York-based inter-governmental policy panel.
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#1282932021-04-27
Why Experts are Saying It’s a ‘Make or Break’ Moment for Forests
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated deforestation pressures and heightened the urgency of action to support sustainable forest management. The pandemic has the brought the importance of forests to global well-being into sharp focus. Pictured here forest in the Dominican Republic
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#1282522021-04-26
Our Climate Future Is Rooted in North America’s Forests
Forest protection, once the “forgotten” climate solution, has become an integral pillar of climate discussions. But while attention has largely focused on forests like those of the Amazon and Indonesia, the climate doesn’t hinge just on what happens in the tropics.
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#1281832021-04-22
‘Teeming with biodiversity’: green groups buy Belize forest to protect it ‘in perpetuity’
These logs are historic,” says Elma Kay, standing in Belize Maya Forest, where she has been doing an inventory of felled trees. “These are the last logs that were cut here, for mahogany and other hardwoods, left behind by the previous logging company.”
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#1281912021-04-22
Getting to zero deforestation in the Amazon by 2030
Amazon deforestation in Brazil reached a 12-year high in 2020, and over 95% of it is illegal. Unless governments and markets radically revalue the rainforest’s natural services and stimulate a green economy, a nightmare scenario may be unavoidable
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#1282152021-04-22
Climate change atlas offers a glimpse into forest futures
For 20 years, the USDA Forest Service's Climate Change Atlas has been giving foresters in the Eastern United States insight into how future habitat conditions may affect tree species, from dramatic change (a big increase of cedar elm, for example, and a big loss in balsam poplar) to the fairly n ...
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#1281182021-04-21
Dubai opens mangrove forest at Jebel Ali to protect endangered species
The mangrove forest planted in the Jebel Ali Wildlife Sanctuary marks a decisive action towards earth restoration of a forest in the desert coastline of the UAE.
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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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#1280692021-04-20
Look: A stunning new mangrove forest in Dubai
1M trees will be planted at Dubai Mangrove Forest to protect endangered species
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#1281002021-04-20
With British Columbia’s last old-growth at risk, government falters: Critics
For old-growth forest advocates in British Columbia last year, it sounded like a political turning point. In the race to preserve what’s left of some of the rarest, most ancient tall trees and endangered ecosystems in North America, the provincial government promised action.
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#1280512021-04-14
UK’s native woodlands reaching crisis point, report warns
The UK’s native woodlands are reaching a crisis point, with just 7% in good condition, according to the first comprehensive assessment of their health.
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#1280532021-04-14
Eat, roam, repeat: Can the bison’s big appetite stop Spain’s forest fires?
As the temperatures begin to rise, Spain is braced for another summer of the forest fires that over the past 10 years have destroyed about 741,000 hectares (1.8m acres) of forest.
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#1280112021-04-12
Why India and Nepal's forest fires are worrying scientists
The lush-green mountains in the background usually make the famous Nainital lake in Uttarakhand state of northern India more picturesque. But for several weeks now haze from forest fires has hidden the mountains, and the lake's beauty has visibly shrunk.
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#1280122021-04-12
Rich world’s demands fell poorer world’s forests
The tropical forests maintain global climate and nurture the riches of nature. The rich world’s demands are destroying them. The world’s great ecosystems − moderators of climate, nurseries for evolution − are still being destroyed in the service of global trade, to meet the rich world’s demands. ...
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#1280132021-04-12
Interview: Why vanilla may be key to protecting our forests
Maureen is a biologist and has spent many years studying the way that chemicals in the environment can impact our hormones, but when Maureen was volunteering in Madagascar her outlook suddenly changed.
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#1279932021-04-08
Restore Our Earth With Reforestation
Americans don’t pay much attention to trees. Sometimes we are reminded that tropical rainforests are still being cleared for agriculture. But deforestation is much more serious than most of us realize. The theme for Earth Day 2021 is “Restore Our Earth.” With that theme, EARTHDAY.ORG (formerly E ...
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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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#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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#1279062021-04-06
Tropical Carbon and Water Observed from Above
Satellite observations of carbon balance and water fluxes are changing the role of tropical forests in local and global climate. A recent article in Reviews of Geophysics focuses on satellite-derived information on terrestrial carbon, and water storage and fluxes, with specific reference tropica ...
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#1279072021-04-06
Reforestation Is Great! But We're Running Out of Seeds
DEAN SWIFT HAS gotten really good at spotting where squirrels hide their seeds. In the forests of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and South Dakota, he looks for a moist shaded area with a small grove of trees, sometimes near a ravine.
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#1278792021-04-05
The world deforested the equivalent of all of Switzerland in the year of the pandemic
In the year of the pandemic, the world stopped, & mldr; but not deforestation. In 2020 tropical forests decreased by 12%, despite the fact that human activity had slowed down considerably. In addition, at various times of the year the demand for items that promote deforestation, such as palm oil ...
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#1278942021-04-05
Tobago wildlife park boosts food security with 'fruiting forest'
Before covid19, vendors in Tobago would often donate fruits and vegetables to help feed the animals at the Corbin Local Wildlife Park in Mason Hall.
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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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#1278272021-03-29
Deforestation: Consumption habits of person in rich country drives loss of ‘four trees each year’
Each person living in a G7 country causes nearly four trees to be lost each year through their consumption of goods such as coffee, cocoa and meat, a new study estimates.
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#1277522021-03-22
Africa’s vast forest potential untapped, circular bioeconomy could help
Africa has enormous potential to derive more value from its forests without producing more wood, and could thus provide a good example of the possibilities of the circular bioeconomy, says Lauri Hetemäki, assistant director, European Forest Institute (EFI).
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#1276812021-03-15
How Starting Brush Fires Could Save Africa’s Disappearing Lions
In 2012 a villager walking through the forest in Mozambique’s Niassa Reserve came across a young male lion caught in a poacher’s snare. The lion lay on the ground, a noose of thick wire squeezing its lower torso. Conservation workers later freed the animal, but most lions are not so lucky.
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#1276882021-03-15
Pig nest-building promotes tree diversity in tropical forest: Study
Wild pigs have reputation as a destructive lot. Farmers and scientists alike know that, when they’re too numerous, their constant rooting and wallowing can run roughshod over crops and regenerating ecosystems. The predators that hunt them may have disappeared, or logging or agriculture may have ...
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#1276452021-03-10
How global sustainable development will affect forests
Global targets to improve the welfare of people across the planet will have mixed impacts on the world's forests, according to new research.
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#1276562021-03-10
Growing support for valuing ecosystems will help conserve the planet
Sierra de Manantlán is a 140,000-hectare biosphere reserve in west central Mexico. It is home to 3,000 plant species and a forest whose soils and limestone mountains enable purified water to reach the nearby town of Colima.
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#1276182021-03-09
Seeing the forest for the shrubs in southern Appalachia
As ecosystems respond to human activity, what species will emerge as new trailblazers, shaping the diversity and resilience of these changing environments? And how can land managers identify these species early on to better prepare for the future?
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#1276362021-03-09
Is this the end of forests as we've known them?
Trees lost to drought and wildfires are not returning. Climate change is taking a toll on the world’s forests - and radically changing the environment before our eyes
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#1275532021-03-05
The collapse of Northern California kelp forests will be hard to reverse
Satellite imagery shows that the area covered by kelp forests off the coast of Northern California has dropped by more than 95 percent, with just a few small, isolated patches of bull kelp remaining. Species-rich kelp forests have been replaced by "urchin barrens," where purple sea urchins cover ...
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#1275732021-03-05
How do forests function in persistent organic pollutant cycling?
Forests can regulate the global dispersion of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). In theory, the forest plays as a "sink" and delays the transport of POPs to remote/cold regions.
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#1275232021-03-04
5 facts you might not know about why forest biodiversity matters
The Earth’s forests are some of the richest and most biodiverse habitats we have. The Earth’s forests are some of the richest and most biodiverse habitats we have. Not only do they serve as important carbon sinks, but up to 350 million people living in or near them rely on their ecosystems for a ...
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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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#1275412021-03-04
In the Himalayas, land-use change is driving the loss of forest birds
Land-use changes in the western Himalayan forests, a global biodiversity hotspot with huge numbers of endemic species, have resulted in a massive decline in forest birds in the region, new research shows.
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#1274082021-03-01
Over 80% of Atlantic Rainforest remnants have been impacted by human activity
A Brazilian study published in Nature Communications shows that human activities have directly or indirectly caused biodiversity and biomass losses in over 80% of the remaining Atlantic Rainforest fragments.
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#1274102021-03-01
Land use changes are driving Himalayan forest bird loss
Land-use changes in the western Himalayan forests, a global biodiversity hotspot with huge numbers of endemic species, have resulted in a massive decline in forest birds in the region, new research shows.
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#1273882021-02-26
‘A quiet conservation success story, the likes of which aren’t told enough’
“Honey is money! And to have honey, you must have forest!” Emmanuel Binyuy is shouting to me down a truly terrible connection from his NGO’s office in the far west of Cameroon. He’s raising his voice because the line is bad, but also to make himself heard over a group of kids playing noisily in ...
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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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#1273422021-02-25
Earth Today | A move towards social forestry
Department is looking to communities as a part of the answer to realising expanded forest cover for the island while also reaping climate change risk reduction benefits, such as carbon capture, which has helped to cool global temperatures.
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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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#1273492021-02-25
Public-private partnerships could play key role in combatting deforestation
As environmental leaders and change makers meet virtually for the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in February 2021, the issue of deforestation has been central to their discussions.
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#1273502021-02-25
Over 80% of Atlantic Rainforest remnants have been impacted by human activity
A Brazilian study published in Nature Communications shows that human activities have directly or indirectly caused biodiversity and biomass losses in over 80% of the remaining Atlantic Rainforest fragments.
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#1273142021-02-24
More than half of Europe's forests vulnerable to climate-related hazards
Climate change has made Europe's forests more vulnerable to hazards like fires, insect outbreaks, windthrows, or a combination of these three, according to a new JRC study.More than 60% of the biomass in these forests is exposed to these risks- over 33 billion tons in total—putting the future ro ...
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#1273152021-02-24
Mangrove forests store more carbon when they're more diverse
Mangrove forests with greater species diversity can store more carbon, according to new research published in the British Ecological Society journal Functional Ecology.