Report: British Columbia to spent 50% of it's land for forest conservationNature, Carbon and Climate Change in British Columbia
by Dr. Jim Pojar; Commissioned by the Working Group on Biodiversity, Forests and Climate, an alliance of ENGOs including ForestEthics
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Issue date: Saturday, 30 January 2010 Keeping more forest or biodiversity with many empty stomachs does not make any senseGöttingeli Nepalese Society, popularly known as GöNeS, proudly started to introduce the well-known Nepalese academician in Germany who has already set a standard in their respective field.
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Issue date: Friday, February 26, 2010 Conservation projects displace localsSeveral years ago three U.S. companies sank millions of dollars into a forest reserve in southern Brazil to earn credits to cover some of their carbon emissions back in America. How does the scheme work on the ground? Michael Montgomery reports in collaboration with Mark Schapiro.
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Noel Kempff project is 'saving the forest' by forcing destruction elsewhereForest conservation project in Bolivia proves that unless a nation as a whole cuts deforestation, individual carbon offset schemes are worthless.
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A Pioneering Biologist Discusses The Keys to Forest ConservationDuring a half-century of studying Central American forests, Daniel Janzen has witnessed the steady destruction of tropical woodlands. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, the noted conservation biologist discusses his ambitious plans to use 21st-century technology to engage the public and halt forest loss.
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Central-East European Regional Office – EFICEEC launchedThe development of EFI Regional Offices continues. The latest office to open its doors is the Central-East European Regional Office – EFICEEC in Vienna, Austria.
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Tree-huggers and loggers bury hatchetA truce appears to be at hand in the long-running war in the woods.
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Paul Collier: saying 'nature has to be preserved' condemns the poor to povertyOxford Economics Professor and former head of Development Research at the World Bank, Paul Collier on reconciling romantic environmentalism and mainstream economics to help poor countries.
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The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature by Paul CollierPaul Collier CBE is a heavyweight economist, in the same league as Joseph Stiglitz and Jeffrey Sachs. He's an Oxford professor and a former head of research at the World Bank, as well as being a UN and British government adviser.
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World's Largest Forest Protection Deal Signed in CanadaStakeholders end long-running feud to protect more than 70 million acres of boreal forest.
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Another tragedy befalls the environment and we can count on those that were once environmentalists to capitalize, figuratively and literally.
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Nature Conservancy faces potential backlash from ties with BPIn the days after the immensity of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico became clear, some Nature Conservancy supporters took to the organization's Web site to vent their anger.
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Pavan Sukhdev: you can have progress without GDP-led growthDeutsche Bank economist Pavan Sukhdev is heading up the groundbreaking TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) report and doing for nature what Sir Nicholas Stern did for climate change - valuing it
Tom Levitt: Why are we putting a value on nature, why don't we just close off and protect it?
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Blackwashing: do NGO tactics risk long term public trust?Instead of making exaggerated claims about species becoming extinct, NGOs could make progress on issues like deforestation by collaborating more closely with companies, claims a new report
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No sale of forest environment services without gov’t say-soEnvironmental services provided by Guyana’s forests cannot be sold without the agreement of the government, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud says.
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Businesses 'profit from investing in nature' Businesses can and should take a key role in stemming biodiversity loss around the world, a report concludes.
The latest report from The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (Teeb) project argues that many sectors have a stake in protecting nature.
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Liberia to Choose between Logging and future Climate RevenueTrucks loaded with undressed timber are on the move again around Buchanan in Grand Bassa county, south-east Liberia.
The dust recalls the not-so-distant time when the timber trade was synonymous with war.
Liberia's rainforests are being primed as a lucrative and legal industry. Electronic tags allow consumers to trace the end-product right back to the stump. Photograph: Glenna Gordon/AFP/Getty Images
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Setting up Nest: Acre, Brazil, and the Future of REDD22 July 2010 | In the March edition of SinergiA, a quarterly newsletter on environmental services in Latin America, Jacob Olander, Director of The Katoomba Ecosystem Services Incubator (a project of Ecosystem Marketplace publisher Forest Trends), takes a long, hard look at the future of REDD projects.
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Tanzania: UNDP project saves mountain forests for future generations
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Brazilian debt exchanged for forestry protectionThe US and Brazil have signed an agreement whereby US$21 million (£13.5 million) of Brazilian debt will be put into a fund for the protection of the country’s rainforest and tropical ecosystems.
The US has agreed that instead of paying back its debt, the money will be utilised to protect the Caatinga and Cerrado ecosystems and conserve the rainforest on the Atlantic coast. These three areas in Brazil are currently under threat of serious deforestation but do not receive as much attention or publicity as the Amazon region.
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The world's first really green oil dealThe world's first genuinely green energy deal is about to be sealed. In a plan which could be a blueprint for saving large tracts of the planet from exploitation, a greater value is being put on a pristine wilderness than on the oil that lies beneath.
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Appeals court allows logging Oregon old growthGRANTS PASS, Ore. – A federal appeals court Friday cleared the way for logging to resume in an old growth forest reserve at a national forest in Oregon to protect northern spotted owl habitat from being lost to wildfire.
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Logged forests retain considerable biodiversity in Borneo providing conservation opportunityA new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B finds that forests which have undergone logging in the past, sometimes even twice, retain significant levels of biodiversity in Borneo. The researchers say these findings should push conservationists to protect more logged forests from being converted into oil palm plantations where biodiversity levels drop considerably and endangered species are almost wholly absent. Given that much of Borneo's forests have been logged as least once, these long-dismissed forests could become a new frontier for conservationists.
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Financing the Tropical Forest Conservation ActThe Tropical Forest Conservation Act is an incentive program that provides less developed countries with debt relief when they protect their forests. According to USAID, this act includes funding from both the United States federal government and private organizations. The Tropical Forest Conservation Act funds protect forests throughout all regions of the world, including Bangladesh, Belize, Jamaica, and Botswana, as well as others.
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Gazprom, Shell and Clinton Foundation back rainforest carbon deal in BorneoA forest conservation project backed by Shell, Gazprom Market and Trading and the Clinton Foundation on the island of Borneo has won approval under a carbon accounting standard, reports Reuters.
The Rimba Raya project, which covers nearly 100,000 ha (250,000 acres) of peat forest in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province, could reduce projected emissions by 75 million metric tons over the next 30 years, generating hundreds of millions in carbon finance under the reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) program backed by the U.N. and World Bank.
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Fighting Global Warming by Saving British Columbia's Old Growth ForestsSeven western states and four Canadian provinces have joined forces in a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
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Is carbon protection the same as biodiversity protection?Protection of forests for their carbon value through Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) schemes has been increasing in recent years. These schemes concentrate on preserving forest cover, and thus have great potential for the conservation of natural biodiversity. Some (REDD+) initiatives already specifically take biodiversity protection into account.
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Strengthening rural communities and improving conservation: an interview with David KaimowitzIn July, the Ford Foundation announced a five-year, US$85 million initiative to address climate change through the inclusion and empowerment o
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Saving our precious old-growth forests
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Why Conservation Won't Save the World's Forests And why we might need to sell forests to save them
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Forging a Landmark Agreement To Save Canada’s Boreal ForestLast spring, conservation groups and timber companies signed an historic agreement to protect a large swath of Canada’s boreal forest. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, the Pew Environment Group's Steven E.
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UPM'S BIODIVERSITY PROGRAMME SHOWCASED AT UN COP 10 CONFERENCE IN JAPANUPM has developed a global biodiversity programme that aims to maintain and increase natural biodiversity on UPM forest land, and to promote best practices in forestry and wood sourcing. UPM's biodiversity programme is regarded as a front-runner and is being showcased at the UN COP 10.
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The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) - synthesis report The economic importance of the natural assets of the world is now firmly on the political radar as a result of an international assessment showcasing the enormous economic value of forests, freshwater, soils and coral reefs, as well as the social and economic costs of their loss, was the conclusion of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) report launched (20 October 2010) by TEEB study leader, Pavan Sukhdev, at the 10th Conference of Parties meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP10) in Nagoya.
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Sustainable forest management in Europe contributes to global biodiversity goals The FOREST EUROPE policies play an important role in combating global biodiversity loss. These are the findings of a recently completed assessment, which has been carried out in relation to the 10TH Conference of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which is taking place until 29 October in Nagoya, Japan.
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Deforestation dominates at U.N. biodiversity meeting in JapanDelegates from 69 countries met Tuesday in Nagoya, central Japan, on the sidelines of the ongoing U.N. biodiversity talks to discuss ways to help developing nations tackle issues of deforestation in a bid to counter greenhouse gas emissions.
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Within the framework of the International Year of Biodiversity 2010, ITTO has been particularly active in promoting the conservation and sustainable use of forest biodiversity in the tropics, in collaboration with member countries and partner institutions. ITTO is presenting much of this work in the following series of events during the 10th Conference of the Parties (COP 10) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya,Japan from 18-29 October 2010.
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Mondi and Sanbi team-up to protect biodiversityThe Gilboa nature reserve is the first
forestry property to be proclaimed a private nature reserve in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) under the biodiversity steward-
ship mechanism.
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"The negotiations went right down to the wire, but after three weeks of haggling they got a deal on Friday night. The most important target set by the Strategic Plan 2011-2020 will increase the area of protected land in the world – no farming or grazing, no forestry – from 12.5% to 17%." read more here
Let's see how this will be handled. Hopefully the idea is not to transform those 60 Million people who live in and from forests to caretakers of parkways (and to paupers)...
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Forestry industry fears for jobs if 100m trees are not plantedSCOTLAND'S forests are in deep decline, threatening jobs and carbon-cutting targets, despite a Scottish Government pledge to plant 100 million new trees by 2015, industry experts have warned.
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One week of Cancun talks have passed by and I just can't stop wondering!
Seems the world gets more wired any time when people meet for negotiations on what should happen to forests.
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Forestry Groups Take Aim at New EPA RegulationsA recent study commissioned by the National Alliance of Forestry Owners states that a new Environmental Protection Agency rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions will severely limit woody biomass renewable energy projects if implemented as scheduled in January.
In May, the EPA issued a final rule establishing the “Tailoring Rule” to regulate greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere by defining when permits are required for new and existing industrial facilities. The rule is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 2, 2011.
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US$33 bln to be spent to protect forests The central government will spend 220 billion yuan ($33 billion) over the next decade to protect China's natural forests.
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Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact plan to restore 15 million hectares of forest Pacto pela Restauração da Mata Atlântica (Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact) is an alliance with the aim of the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact is to restore 15 million hectares of the forest in Brazil by the year 2050, spread across annual plans approved by its Steering Committee.
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Environment Ministry implementing mega forestry projects: AfridiISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi said on Saturday that the Ministry of Environment was implementing mega forestry projects in all the provinces for preservation and expansion of forest wealth in the country.
He stated this at the concluding ceremony of the 2nd three-day international conference on “Biodiversity is Our Life”, organised by the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) and Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur.
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Biodiversity conservation: 'beyond business' CSRThis year was the International year of Biodiversity. Next year has been declared the year of forests.
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Forests Stand Taller after UN Climate Negotiations in CancunThe challenge to delegates at United Nations (UN) climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico was to “Show Cancun Can!”. And for forests, Cancun did!
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Women Are Key to Conservation
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Asian Development Bank grants $69m for forest protection projectMANILA — The Asian Development Bank last week approved loans and grants worth US$69 million to Cambodia, Laos, and Viet Nam for a community-based initiative to protect more than 1.9 million ha of threatened forests where 170,000 mostly poor people live.
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European Commission Green Paper on forest protection and information The results are now available of the public consultation on the EC Green Paper on Forest Protection and Information in the EU: Preparing forests for climate change. The consultation was opened on 1 March 2010, and at the closure of the consultation on 31 July 2010, 261 responses had been received.
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Natura 2000 network further expanded - a good day for salmon, otters and beech forests
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Agreement worth €3.4 million between the Finnish ministry of environment and UPM
AGREEMENT REACHED BETWEEN THE FINNISH MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND UPM ON PROTECTING FORESTS IN KAINUU
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Climate Conversations - Protecting forests key to livelihoods, tackling climate change
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The Nature Conservancy purchases property
The Nature Conservancy in Missouri announced last week it purchased 175 acres near Hartshorn, including nearly 1.5 miles of land along the Current River - the largest stretch of private frontage remaining in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
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UNEP’s 2011 Sasakawa Prize Winners Focus on Forest Conservation
23 February 2011: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced two projects aimed at conserving forests and promoting sustainable development in remote rural communities in Latin America and Asia, as the 2011 recipients of the Sasakawa Prize.
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U.S. allocates first of $30M in grants for forest conservation in Sumatra
The U.S. government announced the first grants under the first phase of its 2009 Tropical Forests Conservation Act agreement with Indonesia.
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Conservation of forests set to get a push increase efforts in conserving forests
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There has been good news recently for America’s national forests, and some that could have been better.
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International: Biodiversity And Livelihoods - REDD-plus Benefits
The importance of biodiversity and livelihood aspects within the design of REDD-plus has been recognized at many levels. Achieving these multiple benefits will require new levels of collaboration among different actors at national and international levels.
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Trees on Shaky Ground in Texaco’s Rainforest
NUEVA LOJA, Ecuador, Mar 29, 2011 (Tierramérica) - When the trunks of the trees move with every step you take, you know you are in a swamp. This is what happens when you walk over the seemingly firm and vegetation-covered ground over what was once a pit used to dump oil sludge in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest.
The extent and impact of oil contamination on the environment and human health in northeastern Ecuador are much worse than anyone could imagine, as Tierramérica discovered during an extensive tour of the area.
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As Larger Animals Decline, Forests Feel Their Absence
With giant tortoises, elephants, and other fruit-eating animals disappearing from many of the world’s tropical woodlands, forests are suffering from the loss of a key function performed by these creatures: the dispersal of tree seeds. But a new experiment shows that introduced species may be able to fulfill this vital ecological role. by sharon levy
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Germany funds forestry protection project
The German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ) has provided 4 million euros to the Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) project in Laos.
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Poland's environmentalists fight foresters for heart of primeval forest
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Europe - Land cover country analyses
On 29 March 2011, the European Environment Agency (EEA) published 36 land cover country analyses based on CLC 2006 data. Each of the country reports provides graphs and maps based on a common template that characterise land cover changes concisely. The provided information does not represent reporting from the Countries, however it is based on validated CLC2006 data.
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CBD Releases Report on REDD+ and Biodiversity Safeguards Workshop in Asia-Pacific
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Nearly Half of Amazon Is Protected But Vulnerable
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A report by the Times of India earlier this month that an Indian company, Vaitarna Holdings, controlled 1.82M acres of Guyanese forest deservedly captured media scrutiny here.
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REDD Rag to Indigenous Forest Dwellers
MEXICO CITY, May 10, 2011 (IPS) - The implementation of a forestry programme against climate change in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas poses a threat to indigenous people in the state, non-governmental organisations warn.
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Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement celebrates 1st anniversary
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Debate over rainforest conservation gets heated
A debate over the need to conserve forests versus converting them for industrial use grew heated last week at Australian National University (ANU).
A forum brought together policy experts, scientists, and a forestry lobbyist to discuss Australia's role in overseas forestry. But an exchange between William F. Laurance, an ecologist at James Cook University, and Alan Oxley, a former Australian trade ambassador who lobbies on behalf of forestry interests, became the focus of the event.
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Is REDD+ the right route for conservation organisations?
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European Parliament adopts report on the Commission Green Paper on Forest Protection and Information
The European Parliament (EP) adopted (at its sitting on 11 May 2011) the Report on the Commission Green Paper on forest protection and information in the EU - preparing forests for climate change . The report was drafted by Kriton Arsenis (Greece, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats).
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Global demand for beef and soy challenges South American tropical forest conservation
MELBOURNE, Australia (8 June, 2011)_Market forces and policies encouraging economic growth are having a increasingly large influence in shaping forest landscape transformation in South America, according to a recent research paper.
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Environment versus economy: local communities find economic benefits from living next to conservation areas
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Germany's Withdrawal of Funding Threatens Plan to Save Ecuador Forest
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SFI Grant helps Audubon New York link forest management to bird conservation
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Pilot project for carbon trading in the Philippines gets boost with greening programA new concept of saving forests from further deterioration while conserving them for biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihood for local communities has been at work in Southern Leyte province since 2009, initiated by a German government organization GIZ.
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Mondi Hosts Green Event at WWT Wetland Centre in BarnesVienna, Austria, Jul 5, 2011 – Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper UK is holding the Green Event at the WWT Wetland Centre in Barnes, London, UK, on the 29th September 2011.
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Ethiopia’s Challenge: Balancing Agriculture with Environmental Protection Atnafu Endashaw, 12, travels on foot two hours every day from home to school. He is from the isolated Menja communities found in Sheka zone of Southern region of Ethiopia, 765 kilometers southwest of Addis Ababa. Unlike the members of Sheka tribe, Menja communities are mainly marginalized because they feed on leftovers of dead animals. “My mother told me that we (Shekas and Menjas) were brothers of the same father and mother,” says Endashaw Ayno, father of Atnafu, commenting on the origin of marginalization of Menjas from the rest of Sheka tribe.
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The State of the Paper Industry 2011he Environmental Paper Network (EPN) publishes the State of the Industry Report as a resource for policy-makers, non- governmental organizations (NGOs), the paper industry, large volume paper purchasers and other stakeholders to monitor key indicators of environmental sustainability in the North
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Kibale National Park rehabilitation projectLocated in southwest Uganda, the Kibale National Park (KNP) is one of the last remaining tropical forest blocks in the country. It harbours the greatest variety and concentration of primates found anywhere in East Africa and is home to at least 350 tree species. Despite the park’s ecological value, deforestation and historic consumptive use of the park have contributed to significant deterioration of KNP’s forest and its biodiversity over the past 30 years.
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The Greener Side of REDD+In the last decade, countries have committed major resources to reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD).
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Hypothetical offsets may not really be there
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Herbicide’s collateral damage in B.C. forests under attack Each year in British Columbia about 16,000 hectares of forest are sprayed with a herbicide that contains glyphosate. It is one of the most popular weed killers in the world, according to the manufacturer, Monsanto.
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Der WWF hat offensichtlich Erklärungsbedarf...
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WWF seems to have some demand for explanation in regard of it's operations in tropical countries.
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How WWF works with the logging companies
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FOREST CONSERVATION MARKETS SLOWLY TURN TO REDD - POINT CARBON* Credits to reduce deforestation and degradation (REDD)
* Each is for a tonne of CO2 saved by unfelled forest
* So far demand is only in a small, thin voluntary market
By Valerie Volcovici, Point Carbon News
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Biodiversity Conservation through Sustainable Forest Management by Local Communities
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Balancing agriculture and rainforest biodiversity in India’s Western GhatsCITATION: M.O. Anand, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Ajith Kumar, Archana Bali. Sustaining biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes in the Western Ghats: Remnant forests matter. Biological Conservation. 143 (2010) 2363–2374.
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Buyer, Regulator, and Enabler - The Government's Role in Ecosystem Services MarketsThis paper discusses the public sector's role in PES internationally. In general, the public sector's role in ecosystem services markets is both critical, and evolving. The public sector roles are evolving in three distinct ways:
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A new paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution argues that decades of conservation actions have had a positive impact for many of the world's endangered species. Even if we have not yet turned back the tide of the current mass extinction crisis, there have been notable successes.
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Preserving the cloud forest through Ethiopian-German partnershipA multifaceted project to preserve one of the last of Ethiopia's native forests has been underway for the past four years with the support of Germany's International Climate Initiative and NABU, the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union. The project focuses on reforestation, job creation in the region and the introduction of sustainable forest management practices. The area was officially named a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve earlier this year.
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Sustaining forests: investing in our common futureWe are pleased to announce the 5th issue of the UNEP Policy Series on Ecosystem Management titled ‘''Sustaining forests: investing in our common future”
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National parks do not contribute to poverty, finds decade-long studyA new study of Uganda's Kibale National Park refutes the conventional wisdom that parks cause poverty along their borders.
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How “effective” are protected areas in conserving biodiversity? BOGOR, Indonesia (25 August, 2011)_Traditional means of conservation have entailed the annexation of land where human activities are strictly controlled or curtailed: so-called “fortress conservation”.
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Ecuador's climate plan worth a look
Developed countries including Canada have insisted it is imperative that developing countries should also shoulder responsibility for combating greenhouse-gas emissions if they expect a truly effective international approach to dealing with climate change.
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Gone are the days of talking only about timber and other forest product in the context of the forest. With these products as it is, another opportunity growing in the forests is carbon. Interestingly, the standing trees could deliver money without dying, and help communities invest on climate-change adaptation.
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Plan to sacrifice forest for sugar puts economy before ecosphere in Uganda
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