Expert Calls for Investment in BiodiversityAn environmental expert, Salihu Dahiru, has called for investment in biodiversity for Nigeria to maximise the potentials of the United Nations programme on Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+).
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Mexico can’t see the wood for the treesAn indigenous community in Mexico wants to drop protected conservation status for its area because it feels it has lost real control of its land and way of life. Concern about carbon emissions is blinding policy makers to the failures of some of their conservation policies.
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Africa's rainforests 'more resilient' to climate change(BBC) - An international conference agreed that the region's surviving tree species had endured a number of climatic catastrophes over the past 4,000 years.
As a result, they are better suited to cope with future shifts in the climate.
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Expert speaks out on impact of logging in PNGOne of the world's leading tropical biologists says clear felling of forests on Papua New Guinea's controversial Special Agricultural and Business leases is likely to have profound impact on PNG's environment.
As you heard earlier in the program, logging on SABLs has pushed PNG's log exports into record territory.
In 2011, 650,000 cubic metres of logs were exported from SABLs.
A prominent scientist in tropical biology says the environmental impact of this sort of logging is very significant.
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Forest conservation policies: what works and what doesn’t Policymakers looking to reduce deforestation in their countries have the right tools to do so today, but without a solid foundation in good governance and consistent policies, they will not be successful, said a prominent policy expert.
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Forestry Director Seeks to Gazette Kigoma's Masito-Ugalla Forest
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Britain to urge green accounting at Rio+20 summit(Reuters) - Britain will urge businesses and governments to start accounting for natural capital as an additional way of measuring economic activity at a U.N.
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British Columbia moves to protect old growth in Avatar GroveThe Government of British Columbia announced today that all of Avatar Grove, a unique stand of old-growth cedars near Port Renfrew, is now protected in an expanded old growth management area.
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$780M eco-system protection fund launchThe Surinamese government has warned donors to stop treating the issue of eco-systems as mere handouts.
John Goedschalk, of Suriname’s Climate Compatible Development Agency, made the call on Monday during the launch of the Guyana Shield Facility, a fund to protect the ecosystems in the Guyana Shield region which includes Guyana, Suriname, Colombia and Brazil.
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Super high-resolution carbon estimates for endangered MadagascarBy combining airborne laser technology, satellite mapping, and ground-based plot surveys, a team of researchers has produced the first large-scale, high-resolution estimates of carbon stocks in remote and fragile Madagascar.
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Conservation is priceless for Kenyan forest
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Carbon Canopy: A Model for Solving Problems by Protecting Rather Than Destroying Our Natural Resources A consortium of forward-thinking environmental groups led by the Dogwood Alliance, major corporations such as Staples and
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Japan Backs Ghana’s Forest Preservation Scheme With $7.8mThe Japanese government is providing 7.8 million dollars to finance a special training programme on Geographical Information System and forestry inventory-taking under Ghana’s forest preservation programme.
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EARTH MEANDERS: The Great Rainforest HeistThe world’s pre-eminent environmental organizations, widely perceived as the leading advocates for rainforests and old growth, have for decades been actively promoting primary forest logging [
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Ecuador Asks World to Pay to Keep Yasuni Oil UndergroundEcuador is eyeing the international Green Climate Fund as a way to help pay for its plan to trade oil for forests, a top government representative said.
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South-South Learning: From Payments for Environmental Services to REDD+ in Latin America
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Forest Management Plan proves controversialTHE state government's newly released Forest Management Plan (FMP) has proved controversial among conservation and green groups.
Conservation Council WA (CCWA) president Piers Verstegen said the government's next forest management plan will be a death sentence to endangered animals.
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Anti-Corruption Views - Why we need laws to save what's left of our forestsInternational efforts to protect forests and the people that live in them have failed so badly that just 20 per cent of forest remains untouched by commercial activity. It is really, really crucial that we find a global system that looks after what remains of the world’s lungs.
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Analysis of possible indicators to measure impacts of REDD+ on biodiversity and on indigenous and local communitiesThis report has been produced for the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), as part of the activities in response to decision X/33 paragraph 9 (h), in which the Conference of the Parties requested the Executive Secretary to ‘…identify possible indicators to assess the contr
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GAR and SMART publish High Carbon Stock Forest Study ReportGolden Agri-Resources (GAR) and its subsidiary PT SMART, supported by TFT and Greenpeace, have reached a significant milestone with the publication of a report detailing the methodology and findings from their High Carbon Stock (HSC) forest fieldwork.
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Ministry, German firm team up for biodiversity conservationMinistry of Natural Resources and Environment and the German consulting company GITEC Consult GmbH have agreed to partner in biodiversity conservation in southern Laos under a project set to run until 2018.
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Code REDD for environmental protectionUp to now a forest’s value has been measured mainly in terms of the price of its wood, but the United Nations is currently turning this premise on its head by placing a price on the forest’s capacity to absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Forest Footprint Disclosure Project to Merge with CDPThe Global Canopy Program’s Forest Footprint Disclosure Project will merge with The Carbon Disclosure Project to create what the two non-profits say is the world’s largest comprehensive natural capital measuring system that covers carbon, water and forests.
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Alaska's Tongass forest sparks battle over logging(REUTERS) -- Environmental advocates readied for battle in Congress this week over what they maintain is an erosion of protections for the biggest, oldest trees in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, often called the crown jewel of the U.S. forest system.
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FCPR–Forest Conservation Performance Rating for the Pan-Tropics - Working Paper 294  This note introduces and illustrate
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Small farmers cause substantial damage in the Amazon rainforestSmall farmers are less likely than large landowners to maintain required forest cover on their property in the Brazilian Amazon, worsening the environmental impact of their operations, reported a re
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More old growth forest protected in British ColumbiaBritish Columbia is now protecting an additional 14,750 hectares of old growth forest on the Sunshine Coast.
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Growing benefits from forest carbon projects
Corporate responsibility managers should take a look at forest carbon offset projects to maximize return on investment in climate, biodiversity, and community benefits
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Free, prior and informed consent in REDD+, by Isilda Nhantumbo
“The government took our forest land to create a forest reserve and the same government confiscated our land for planting trees. All that is left is unproductive savannah,” said a community representative speaking during a meeting in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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First of Its Kind Multimillion Dollar Trust Fund Launched to Protect Guyana's Forests
The governments of Guyana and Germany along with Conservation International launch fund to protect critical ecosystems, maintain global carbon stocks and benefit local communities
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Are conservation projects succeeding in the Lower Mekong Basin?For thousands of years, the people living on the banks of the Mekong river have been paddling through its often treacherous waters in wooden cargo boats laden with all manner of freshly grown produce, ready for trade.
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IDB, CI-Guyana sign US$1.6M deal for LCDS implementationTHE Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Conservation International-Guyana (CI-Guyana) signed an agreement yesterday, to begin a project that will test models for implementation of this country’s Low Carbon Development S
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The return of fortress conservation: REDD and the green land grab in the Peruvian AmazonI remember when the park guards first came to our village. They called a meeting and said ‘get your things together and pack your bags, don’t make any new farms and we will see where you can be resettled’.
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REDD+ related risks, opportunities and safeguards for biodiversity conservation – a survey of issues and options in Lao PDR and Ecuador Intact ecosystems – particularly forests – contain significant amounts of carbon.
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Ecuadorian tribe gets reprieve from oil intrusionAn indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon has won a reprieve after building up an arsenal of spears, blowpipes, machetes and guns to fend off an expected intrusion by the army and a state-run oil
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Bushman children arrested under renewed government repression Three Bushman children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana.
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Can oil save the rainforest?American biologist Kelly Swing thwacks a bush with his butterfly net and a dozen or so bugs and insects drop in.
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Ecuador treads fine line in preserving Amazon reserveEcuador's plan to refrain from drilling for oil in its rainforests in return for money remains controversial. Critics have questioned the tangible benefits of the project for the forest and its residents.
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The Yasuni Project: Protecting the rainforests and fighting climate changeTHE GREEN Party is excited to announce a special session “The Yasuni Project” at its spring conference; a fringe event hosted by Dr. Derek Wall in conjunction with the Ecuadorian Embassy.
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New Iwokrama Board chairman salutes Guyana’s LCDS modelRenowned climate scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri was late this evening installed Chairman of Guyana’s well known international rain forest conservation, research and development centre Iwokrama.
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Biodiversity in Logged Forests Far Higher Than Once BelievedNew research shows that scientists have significantly overestimated the damage that logging in tropical forests has done to biodiversity, a finding that could change the way conservationists think about how best to preserve species in areas disturbed by humans.
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Trucks arrive to evict Botswana Bushmen despite government denials Government trucks arrived last night to evict Bushmen from their ancestral land in southern Botswana, according to reports received by Survival International.
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Biodiversity paradigm questioned after flaws found in logging impact research BOGOR, Indonesia (19 July, 2013) — Studies about the impact of logging on biodiversity in tropical regions should be scrutinized, conclusions toned down or even discounted, according to a recent publication in the journal “Conservation Biology“ that has revealed w
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NGO accuses Rimba Raya of misleading public with false carbon project informationA non-governmental organization said a claim that Rimba Raya Conservation had obtained approval from the Indonesian government for its world’s largest carbon project, on 64,000 hectares of areas in Indonesia, was in fact untrue.
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Mitigation without adaptation can leave communities vulnerable — study BOGOR, Indonesia (27 August, 2013) — Understanding the vulnerability of forest-dependent communities is a point of departure for building more effective climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, a study has found.
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Communities need more than money to stop clearing their forests, new research shows
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Heavily logged forests still valuable for tropical wildlifeNew research has found rainforests that have been logged several times continue to hold substantial value for biodiversity and could have a role in conservation.
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Why Ecuador's president is misleading the world on Yasuni-ITT
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Protecting tropical rainforest: are parks or payments best?Tropical forests are home to many species as well as a store for large amounts of carbon, but they’re under threat of destruction.
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Logging, tropical forests and biodiversity — what we don’t know A new paper in Conservation Biology (subscription required) from researchers at UC Berkeley and elsewhere provides an important reminder that we often don’t know as much as we think we do about ecological systems and the effe
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