The Conservation and Management of the Forests of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania The forests of the Eastern Arc Mountains (EAM) in Northeastern Tanzania contain exceptional species richness of local and global importance. They are recognized by WWF as a Global 200 Ecoregion, and by Conservation International as a terrestrial biodiversity hotspot.
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Macquarie and Partners Build $25 Million Partnership to Find REDD ProjectsProfit-minded banking group Macquarie has tapped the expertise of environmental non-profit Flora and Fauna International in the past to identify endangered rainforests that can generate carbon credits if saved. Now they’ve formed a partnership to scale up the activity, and they have $25 mil
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Don't Cut Down Mabira - DonorsThe European Union's top envoy to Uganda, Ambassador Roberto Ridolfi, has thrown his weight behind the chorus against a proposal by President Museveni to hand out part of Mabira rainforest to sugar manufacturer-SCOUL to grow sugarcane.
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Sustaining forests: investing in our common future - UNEP Policy Brief UNEP has published the fifth issue in the Policy Brief on Ecosystem Management series. This policy brief seeks to outline how forests can be a key part of a green economy that provides opportunities for innovative solutions to forest management. The provides an overview of the many values of forest assets before reviewing the complex issues that threaten forests globally and lastly looking at the emerging innovative market and policy solutions that can promote long-term sustainable forest management and contribute to a green economy.
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How we all pay to 'conserve' forestsIn January, a deal was struck between the Pacific Carbon Trust (the provincial Crown corporation responsible for buying carbon "offsets") and one of British Columbia's biggest logging companies - a deal that would allegedly result in hundreds of thousands of tonnes of additional carbon being stored in trees.
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A collection of articles and other media in respect of environmental NGO criticism
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Kigoma to Earn On Forest ConservationCOMMUNITIES in seven villages of Kigoma Rural district will early next year start earning money for protecting Masito-Ugalla forest reserve, which climate change scientists say is helping in the absorption of carbon dioxide and controlling global warming.
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Kigoma to Earn On Forest ConservationCOMMUNITIES in seven villages of Kigoma Rural district will early next year start earning money for protecting Masito-Ugalla forest reserve, which climate change scientists say is helping in the absorption of carbon dioxide and controlling global warming.
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Conservation of forests: Incentives should trickle down to local peopleTanzania has started to implement the National Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) readiness pilot projects from which the lessons learnt will be used to inform policy makers in developing a comprehensive national REDD strategy.
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Valuing the trees through the forestHow do you value an ecosystem? Putting a dollar value on natural systems such as forests has long beset economists.
Forests provide “non-use values,” such as the pleasure of knowing that a natural system exists, and recreational values, such as hunting, fishing and wildlife viewing. But recently, ecologists have also sought to value a broader set of “ecosystem services,” or the goods and services that ecosystems provide to a market economy.
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Think Tank Warns About Flaws in Sustainable Forestry SchemeThe UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development has issued a warning that tropical countries participating in REDD+ schemes, whereby they get compensated for protecting their forests to limit emissions of greenhouse gases from deforestation, could fail to reap social and environmental benefits.
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Effectiveness of Strict vs. Multiple Use Protected Areas in Reducing Tropical Forest Fires: A Global Analysis Using Matching MethodsProtected areas (PAs) cover a quarter of the tropical forest estate. Yet there is debate over the effectiveness of PAs in reducing deforestation, especially when local people have rights to use the forest.
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The REDD Market Should Not End Up a Subprime House of Cards: Introducing a New REDD Architecture for Environmental Integrity
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Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversityHuman-driven land-use changes increasingly threaten biodiversity, particularly in tropical forests where both species diversity and human pressures on natural environments are high
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From illegal logger to conservationistMANILA, Philippines — Expedito Vanzuela, 59, was once an illegal logger, cutting trees in the forests of Maasin, the capital city of Southern Leyte, where he grew up.
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Will REDD conserve natural forests and protect local livelihoods?This blog was written by an intern in GBMI’s Europe office, Antoni Michael
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Landmark conservation buy gives to indigenous ownersIn a landmark, first-of-its kind, acquisition for conservationists a global conservation group has led the purchase of Fish River Station, a former cattle station in the Northern Territory, and is to hand it back to indigenous traditional owners.
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A model biodiversity monitoring protocol for REDD projectsEmerging international standards for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) projects require a demonstrated biodiversity benefit and a biodiversity monitoring protocol.
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GEF Council to adopt revised Environmental and Social Safeguards in November
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) secretariat will propose to the next GEF Council meeting a revised set of Environmental and Social Safeguard Standards and accountability mechanisms that will accompany such standards.
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Ministry seeks funding for environmental programmesThe Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment needs US$430 million to fund programmes over the next five years that aim to manage natural resources and the environment in regards to socio-economic development.
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GEF Council Members approve 500 Million US Dollars Environmental Projects The governing body of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council yesterday (November 9, 2011) approved an unprecedented large work program worth half a billion US dollars within the fifth replenishment cycle of the GEF.
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Pilot Forest Carbon Trust Fund: Rewarding local communities for forest conservationThis is the first Forest Carbon Trust Fund in Nepal, and lessons learnt from this pilot project will be vital for understanding what kind of governance system will be required for implementing REDD+ at the national level when communities are actively involved in forest management.
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Major expansion of protected natural areas in Europe Natura 2000, the EU network of protected areas, has undergone a significant expansion. Nearly 18 800 km2 have been added, including a major addition of marine areas covering 17 000 square kilometres which will increase protection for many endangered marine species.
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Will Programs to Off-Set Carbon Emissions Fuel Further Conflict in Bolivia's Forests?The question in Bolivia and all over the Global South is whether forests should be protected, for a price, and who gets a share of that money.
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Bhutan Holds a 4-Nation Climate Summit Keen to guard its ranking as Asia's happiest country, Bhutan has hosted a climate summit and an international symposium accompanied by an exhibition in the Kingdom's capital Thimphu – far away from the hustle and bustle of world's metropolitan cities – in run-up to a landmark UN conference in Dur
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Conservation can only work by putting a value on forestsREDD+ type projects to protect rainforests face many obstacles but we should not give up on market-based solutions, says Ben Caldecott from the investment bank Climate Change Capital.
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Nedbank unit in forest deal Capital and Face the Future have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop sustainable forestry projects in Africa.
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Sierra Leone protects climate by saving its largest forest for the worldAs the world’s richest countries once again play brinksmanship at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Durban, Sierra Leone has embraced the vital role tropical forests play in preventing climate change by conserving its most important forest, locking up an estimated 13.6 million ton
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DENR freezes land titling in forest lands, protected areasTo curb the encroachment of human population and disruptive economic activities into forest lands, the Department of Environment declared on Monday that no land titles would be given to areas that overlapped with or were included in proposed protected areas.
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TIME MAGAZINE - The canoes slip away from the dock, the morning mist still clinging to Anangucocha Lake in eastern Ecuador's Yasuni National Park. The water is the ink black of old tea, the paddles vanishing beneath the surface with every stroke.
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Timber Logging in Rufiji ContinueRemnants of torched farm huts suspended from the ground by burnt out logs mostly mangroves, are testimony that something went terribly wrong in Rufiji Delta.
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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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UN aid to protect Sri Lankan forest cover The Department of Forests under the Ministry of Environment, with the support of FAO, UNDP and UNEP, took steps towards making forests a major part of Sri Lanka's strategy to combat climate change through the United Nations UN-REDD programme which assists developing countries to prepare and imple
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Hats Off to Guyana's Outgoing President Jagdeo, a Forest Champion The Kansas-sized country of Guyana, formerly known as British Guiana and the only English-speaking nation in South America, held elections on November 28, 2011, and voted in a new president, Donald Ramotar.
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ForestEthics Launches Petition & WebsiteAfter a month of escalating rhetoric from the Harper government and oil industry front groups and confirmation today from internal government documents that the government explicitly identified environmental and aboriginal groups as "adversaries" in its strategy to increase tar sands ex
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Brazil's Amazon Fund bogs down, donors frustrated(REUTERS) - An international fund to protect the Amazon forest launched by Brazil in 2008 has gotten bogged down in red tape and donors are frustrated their $466 million contributions are hardly put to use, a Norwegian official said.
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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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Push for forest conservation destroying Pakistani yak herding practices Local government efforts to promote forest conservation in a Pakistani village are blocking access to common lands and destroying traditional yak herding practices that villagers depend on for their livelihoods, says a recent study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
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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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Forestry Director Against Land Hoarding
COMMUNITIES and conservation groups should own forests to earn from Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) programme.
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Focus on protecting wildlife, not commercial forestry practicesInstead of protecting wildlife, the proposed wildlife preservation act focuses more on giving more power and dominion to an incompetent forest department widely criticised for its commercial forestry practices, said speakers at a discussion yesterday.
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Paid for Keeping the Forest Alive
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Charest announces conservation plan for Quebec's northMONTREAL - Quebec will turn 20% of its vast northern territory into internationally recognized protected areas, a plan Premier Jean Charest said is one of the largest conservation projects in the world.
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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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Forest and Climate Conservation for the private Sector
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Conservation is priceless for Kenyan forest
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UGANDAN PRESIDENT MUSEVENI STOPS SALE OF FORESTSKAMPALA, Nov 24 (NNN-NEW VISION) -- PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has stopped the leasing of chunks of forest reserves to individuals to plant trees.
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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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EU-funded study underlines importance of Congo Basin for global climate and biodiversityWith its 1.7 billion square kilometres, an area equivalent to 5 times the size of Germany, the Congo Basin forest is the world's second largest tropical forest.
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Public consultation launched for draft ‘Guidelines for the use of REDD+ SES at country level Version 2′REDD+ Social & Environmental Standards launched its public consultation on draft ‘Guidelines for the use of REDD+ SES at country level Version 2′ from 5th April until 4th June 2012.
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B.C. plan would open Interior’s protected woods for logging Old-growth forests, wildlife corridors and other long-protected timber zones in the British Columbia Interior could be opened up to logging in order to keep mills operating, according to a cabinet document detailing a proposal under consideration by the provincial government.
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Power Grab Eyed by Clark Gov't to Set Logging LevelsA leaked provincial cabinet document indicates that the provincial government is contemplating "suspending" the powers of one of its most powerful public servants in order to expedite a controversial logging program that has raised alarm bells in the professional forestry community.
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Thousands of forestry jobs on the line in central British ColumbiaA confidential report was leaked this week indicating the British Columbia government is expecting north-central B.C.
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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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Examining protected area effectiveness in Sumatra: importance of regulations governing unprotected lands
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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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Forests and climate change after Durban Over the past two years, the Food and Agricultur
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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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The Israelis saving the rainforestsA company owned by Israeli entrepreneurs will manage preservation of tropical rainforests of the Central African Republic.
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The Green Party's proposal to better protect the Swedish forestThe Swedish Green Party unveiled six proposals to better protect the Swedish forest. The Green Party is working for a modern forest management committed to taking advantage of the richness of Swedish forests today and manage wisely for the future.
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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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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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Global Environment raises Rs. 700 cr fundMumbai: Sustainable forestry-focused private equity (PE) firm, Global Environment Fund (GEF), has raised a Rs. 700 crore, small and medium enterprises (SME)-focused South Asia fund dedicated to India—the first niche fund of its kind in the coun
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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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Conservation and Military Objectives Met Through Land AcquisitionJACKSONVILLE, Fla, USA, Sep 5, 2012 - Georgia Land Trust (GLT) was awarded a grant from the Department of Defense (DOD), as part of the Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative (REPI), to purchase 5,500 acres from Rayonier Forest Reso
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More logging won't cure trade's ills
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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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Issue date: September 28th, 2012; Oct 19, 2012 Biodiversity Offsets: : Voluntary and Compliance Regimes UNEP-WCMC and UNEP FI have issued a new publica
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Protecting mangroves cheaper than building coastal protectionKeeping coastal mangrove forests intact or replanting them is cheaper than building man-man structure to protect coastlines threatened by climate change, according to the head of the International Union for Conservation for Nature (IUCN).
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Ecuador says companies join novel Amazon protection fundAbout a dozen companies are contributing to a novel conservation plan that pays Ecuador to protect part of the Amazon rainforest in return for barring oil drilling, the head of the initiative said on Friday.
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Preserve the services of mangroves—Earth's invaluable coastal forests, experts urgeExperts are urging policy makers to preserve mangroves and their essential services to nature and humanity alike, saying their replacement with shrimp farms and other forms of development is a bad economic tradeoff both short and long-term.
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Greenpeace leaves Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, claims Resolute logging activity in off-limit areasGreenpeace is leaving the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA).
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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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Globalisation, logging concessions, conservation organisations and local peopleA commonly held view in the developed part of the world is that conservation organisations are doing "good" when offering small-scale development activities to improve local livelihoods of people in remote forested areas, such as those in southeast Cameroon.
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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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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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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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