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#1324622022-01-13
Forest, Tree Cover In India Increased By 2,216 Sq Km In 2 Yrs; Andhra Added The Most
India's total forest and tree cover is now spread across 80.9 million hectares, which is 24.62 per cent of the geographical area of the country.
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#1237842020-01-17
Forest-dependent communities of Odisha find LPG an unnecessary, unaffordable luxury
Cooking gas is an unnecessary luxury, said Simaru Kandi from Musapada village in Odisha’s Puri district. “Nature has given us all resources to lead a bountiful life,” explained Simaru. “Whenever we need firewood, we go, pick some dry branches from the forest near the village. At other times we u ...
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#1219192019-08-16
Forest-friendly chocolate
Sougue Kadjatou is a 45-year-old farmer who lives with her husband and two children in Agboville, a village in Côte d’Ivoire.
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#1221272019-09-06
Forest-killing bark beetles also might help ecosystem, experts say
DENVER, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Tiny bark beetles the size of a black bean have killed entire mountainsides of pine trees in the western U.S, but ecologists and forest managers disagree about whether they are a pest or a boon to wildlife ecosystems.
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#1217312019-07-29
Forestry sector cultivates SDG action plan
With scrutiny around corporate strategies related to deforestation intensifying, a select group of companies representing the forestry sector have published the latest in a series of industry-specific guides meant to help meaningful corporate action take root.
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#1204292019-03-19
Forests and people are intertwined for development
“Forests and people are intertwined. Humans rely on forests for their basic needs: clean air, food, water, and raw materials for medicine, shelter and clothing.” This was stressed by Dr. Theresa Mundita S. Lim, Executive Director of the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, on the occasion of the Inter ...
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#1201972019-03-05
Forests can take decades to recover from fire
Wildfires and logging are sytematically ravaging the world's forests. While some loss makes way for regeneration, scientists warn that woodland takes a painfully long time to really recover.
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#1266712021-01-19
Forests go into growth 'overdrive' to recover from drought
One in 12 people could face severe drought every year by 2100, according to a recent study. And water stored on two-thirds of the Earth's land surface will shrink as the climate warms. As plant ecologists, we're concerned with what that means for forests—one of the largest carbon sinks and bigge ...
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#1342502022-04-28
Forests in the tropics are critical for tackling climate change – yet the people showing how are being exploited
Nowhere is nature more vibrant than in Earth’s tropical forests. Thought to contain more than half of all plant and animal species, the forests around Earth’s equator have sustained foragers and farmers since the earliest days of humanity.
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#1226792019-10-15
Forests on the radar
With freely available radar data from satellites, biodiversity in forests can be analysed very well. In Nature Communications, researchers report that biodiversity even of tiny insects can be reliably modeled from space.
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#1258072020-11-20
Forests support jobs and encourage biodiversity. But they’re under threat
Forests are beautiful, home to a diverse range of wildlife, and play an important role when it comes to looking after the world we live in.
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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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#1218602019-08-09
Forests: A key piece of the land and climate puzzle (commentary)
The vital contribution of forests in protecting biodiversity, regulating the climate, and enhancing human well-being is being recognized as never before.
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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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#1247692020-03-20
Forgotten Forests
Let’s start at the beginning – or, at least the beginning according to what evidence we have. The world’s first trees are believed to be the Archaeopteris, fern-like trees that grew into 10-meter-high forests across the terrestrial Earth some 360 million years ago during the Late Devonian Period.
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#1206982019-04-09
Forêt : une restauration rapide, mais dans le désordre
La nature reprend ses droits quand des terres déboisées ne sont plus exploitées. Une forêt, dite secondaire, se réinstalle. Mais à quel rythme ? Et dans quelle mesure ressemble-t-elle à une forêt primaire ?
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#1220312019-08-28
From destruction to rejuvenation: When forest fires are a good thing
Fires can be catastrophic in rainforests such as the Amazon, but they don't necessarily spell disaster everywhere — sometimes they help replenish ecosystems.
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#1235592019-12-20
From seeds to forests: How one man is growing Thailand’s future
Nopporn Nontapha had always wanted to take care of forests, but this dream was initially shattered when the Thai government rejected his application for a forestry job. Thirty years later, though, he’s managed to grow a vast network of over 30,000 tree-planting volunteers across Thailand, all be ...
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#1225532019-10-07
Fruit bats 'vitally important' to Guam's forests
Seed dispersal on Guam, a crucial process for regenerating and diversifying the island's forests that has significantly declined with the diminishing bird population, is still being carried out by the few remaining Mariana fruit bats, or fanihi, a University of Guam graduate student confirmed in ...
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#1231312019-11-26
Future forests facing climate balancing act
Forests can cope with a warming world if - and only if - temperature rises increase in line with increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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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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#1223262019-09-23
Gabon becomes the first African country to receive funding for preserving its rainforests
In an effort to fight climate change, the United Nations announced Sunday that Gabon will become the first African country paid with international funds to preserve its rainforest.
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#1204362019-03-21
Genetic diversity maps to help forests survive climate change
Forests have a special magic for many of us. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, they are places for enchantments, mythical creatures and outlaws. But if they are to survive into the future, they may also need a helping hand from science.
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#1265142020-12-30
Geography on the plate: The culinary rediscovery of Colombia’s biodiversity
In a small, sprightly basement office in the neighborhood of Chapinero in Bogotá, navigating the winds of political dysphoria and generalized uncertainty that have characterized the year the world over, a startup is leveraging the excitement of rare foods to create exchange networks that support ...
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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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#1209072019-05-01
Ghana is losing its rainforest faster than any other country in the world
Ghana’s rainforest is being lost at an alarming rate, according to a new report about the state of forests worldwide.
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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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#1262712020-12-15
Give Bees and other Pollinators a Fighting Chance: Protect the Forest!
As more and more forests around the world get decimated to plant monocrops, bees and other pollinators not only lose habitat but also enter a fight for survival against the increased use of pesticides and other agrichemicals, without the help of plant biodiversity that normally provides them wit ...
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#1259202020-12-01
Global mega-trends impact forest communities, scientists find
Forests and the livelihoods they provide through ecosystem services are increasingly impacted by infrastructure development and other global trends that undermine efforts to achieve sustainability goals, according to a new study by international experts.
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#1224332019-09-30
Gov't To Launch Cocoa-Forests REDD+ Program
The government will on Friday, October 4, 2019 launch the Cocoa Forests Redd Plus Program aimed at promoting a climate-smart cocoa regime in Ghana. The interventions are led by COCOBOD, Forestry Commission, World Cocoa Foundation, CSOs in the cocoa industry as well as other industry players.
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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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#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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#1223302019-09-24
Greta and Mesoamerica’s five great forests (commentary)
This week’s Climate Strike mobilized and inspired millions of people around the world, including us.On Friday, we stood with young protesters in New York’s Battery Park, listening to Greta Thunberg’s speech. Her courageous words, her grit, her honesty, her powerful presence, the overwhelming gra ...
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#1247982020-03-20
Group Urges Forestry Commission To Protect Water Bodies, Forests
An environmental civil society group has called on Mr. Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, the Chief Executive Forestry Commission, to protect Ghana’s forests and waters for use by the present and future generations in order to save Mother Earth from ecological devastation and the debilitating effects of clim ...
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#1264422020-12-23
Growing a forest and nurturing community spirit Making a difference
It takes weeks to ensure a sapling takes root. Mr N. Sivasothi, a senior lecturer at the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Department of Biological Sciences, is well aware of the arduous, time-consuming work needed, having organised mangrove clean-ups for two decades at Kranji Coastal Nat ...
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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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#1270392021-02-12
Gurugram: Aravali forest’s avian flock both rich and diverse, shows first survey
The first survey to map the avian wealth of Delhi-NCR’s sole ‘forest’, Mangar bani, has revealed that the Aravali grove isn’t just rich in the number of species it sees or hosts but also especially diverse. The survey found 219 species of birds in a 17.1sqkm area. Mangar bani is also an importan ...
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#1231232019-11-26
Guyana refutes findings that deforestation skyrocketed after REDD+ payments stopped
A landmark five-year, $250-million pay-for-performance agreement between wealthy, oil-rich Norway and heavily forested Guyana was supposed to keep the South American nation’s biodiverse and carbon-rich forests standing and their carbon out of the atmosphere.
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#1186282018-10-23
Habitat of endangered Malayan tigers vanishing
The Hulu Sempam area which has been cleared for durian plantation is vital to the survival of the Malayan tiger, which is now considered critically endangered. The area, said WWF’s Siti Zuraidah Abidin, had also been identified as an Expected Tiger Habitat under the National Tiger Action Plan fo ...
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#1221642019-09-10
Haiti gets its first private nature reserve to protect forests and species
Haiti may not be the first place you think of when nature reserves come to mind. Much of Haiti has been ravaged by hurricanes, and the primary source of energy for use in homes in Haiti is charcoal, which is created by local people from local trees. Mainly, the image of Haiti has been a stark ...
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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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#1249552020-03-31
Happy 60th Birthday to Madagascar! World’s Most Biodiverse Island Gets Gift of 60 Million Trees
To celebrate its 60th birthday, the nation of Madagascar held its largest ever tree-planting ceremony, with a million seedlings going into the ground in just a few hours after the speeches concluded. The country is preparing to plant a million trees for each year of its six decade history.
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#1187822018-11-02
Has Haiti Lost Nearly All Of Its Forest? It's Complicated
The cloud forests of Haiti's Macaya National Park are believed to carry the world's largest concentration of endemic amphibians. Island ecosystems are hotspots for biodiversity, and historically, Haiti was no different.
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#1246272020-03-11
Having Your Oil Palm and Forests, Too
Brazil – You might not believe this from reading the news, but the oil palm industry isn’t necessarily synonymous with environmental destruction.At least, not everywhere.
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#1299602021-08-16
Hidden cameras spot New Forest pine marten
Hidden wildlife cameras have shown evidence of a possible "established population" of pine marten in the New Forest, conservationists have said. Pine marten were previously only thought to have survived largely in the north of England.
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#1214732019-07-03
High-value opportunities exist to restore tropical rainforests around the world—here's how we mapped them
The green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Southeast Asia is turning brown.
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#1259032020-11-27
How Balkan botanists saved a threatened oak and are planting thousands more
From saving a monumental old tree to collecting over 20,000 acorns, determined young botanists from Montenegro have high ambitions when it comes to a highly threatened oak subspecies
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#1353832022-07-20
How Forest Structure Drives Productivity
Forests make large contributions to Earth’s climate, from releasing water vapor to pulling in carbon dioxide from the air, which mitigates global warming. The arrangement of trees affects how forests use light and water for photosynthesis, and it is known that more complex forests have higher pr ...
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#1244842020-03-03
How India’s idea of forest has evolved over the decades
From covering 640,819 square kilometres (19.49%) of India’s total land area in 1987 to covering 712,249 sq km (21.67%) of the country’s geographical area in 2019, India’s forest cover has had a roller coaster journey.
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#1331022022-02-10
How Residents Of Two MP Villages Turned Their Barren Land Into A 1,030-Acre Forest In 20 Years
Deforestation is one of the biggest threats the world is currently facing and is adding to the pace at which global warming has accelerated in recent years.