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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 ...
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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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#6138Sixteenth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests
26 - 30 April 2021, Online
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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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#30732021-04-19
Funding support for a Second Phase of the Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative by the Korea Forest Service of the Republic of Korea
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/CC/LJ/89529 (2021-028)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations
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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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#61046th Session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Forest Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (FAO)
13 - 15 April 2021, Rome, Italy
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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.