And of course people immediately started to interpret their own thoughts and ideas on the "results" of this study.
Here is an overview of what people are reading out of the study:
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Asia Pulp and Paper: why activists are wrong over destructive logging allegations
The paper giant has been accused by Greenpeace of destructive logging and green-washing. But campaigners are mistaken, says APP boss Aida Greenbury - the company is supporting REDD projects and putting sustainability at the centre of operations
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Avoided Deforestation (REDD) and Indigenous Peoples
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'Major shift' needed to halt deforestation
A paradigm shift in global forest management is needed to halt tropical deforestation, said Global Witness at the start of the UN’s International Year of Forests. The status quo effectively legalises the destruction of natural forests by logging operations, subsidised by tax-dollars. Without efforts to overturn this, international action to prevent irreversible climate change will founder and the livelihoods of over a billion forest-dependent people will be at risk.
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Government 'failing on illegal logging pledge' - Caroline Lucas
A note from the editor: Ms. Lucas is still continuing her misleading campaign... Why? Read here...
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Inadequate reforestation goes from bad to worseBritish Columbia is blessed by nature with a vast, ecologically rich forest estate that also has been a source of sustained economic wealth for more than a century. But today there are troubling signs that the most important of natural assets is facing challenges never before seen.
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Last weekend (4.2.2011/5.2.2011) we had been witnesses of some interesting information campaign in the UK:
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Will intensified farming save the rainforests?
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Central America Has Highest Rate of Forest Loss in Region
FAO's State of the World’s Forests report says the average rate of loss of forest cover in Central America, which is made up of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala City, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, was 1.19 percent a year between 2000 and 2010, compared to a global rate of just 0.13 percent.
The region's forested area shrank from 21.9 million hectares in 2000 to 19.4 million hectares in 2010.
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Budget for rainforests puts Obama’s $1 billion pledge at risk
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Rwanda Launches Plan to Reverse Environmental Degradation
Rwanda, the most densely populated nation in Sub-Saharan Africa, has launched a national plan to reverse the current degradation of soil, land, water and forest resources by 2035 while boosting economic development growth.
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UP study on logging ban bared
MANILA, Philippines – A total logging ban would only worsen the rate of deforestation of the country's meager forest cover.
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WWF calls for 'scaling up' of beef production to combat deforestation in Brazil
In an interview with the Ecologist, WWF Brazil CEO Denise Hamu says increasing productivity can help combat deforestation in the Amazon
More intensive beef production can limit deforestation in Brazil where the space used to rear cattle is ten times what you see in other countries, according to WWF Brazil CEO Denise Hamu.
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Guyana sees a 300% increase in deforestation despite landmark deal to protect its forests
Guyana has seen deforestation rates soar over the last year, despite the signing of an agreement with the Norwegian government aimed precisely at supporting a reduction in deforestation rates, said Global Witness today.
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Gender Continues to be Major Issue in Africa
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Palm Oil Plantations Equal Deforestation
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Rise in Palm Oil Output May Help Satisfy Food DemandStrong production of Southeast Asian palm oil is the best hope of boosting cooking oil supplies as soybean oil gets soaked up to make biofuel, its attraction redoubled by unrest in Libya that has driven crude oil to more than $100 per barrel.
Vegetable oil markets had braced for a fall in palm oil prices in the second half of 2010. They expected strong output from top producer Indonesia as it harvested a bigger acreage, and as No. 2 supplier Malaysia improved yields.
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Forest loss threatens Sierra Leone water supplies
FREETOWN (Reuters Life!) - The slopes of Leicester Peak, a protected rainforest on a hill above Sierra Leone's capital, are a jumble of haphazard development and half-finished villas.
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Stopping export logging, oil palm expansion in PNG in 2012 would cost $1.8b, says economistStopping logging for timber export and conversion of forest for oil palm plantations would cost Papua New Guinea roughly $1.8 billion dollars from 2012 to 2025, but would significantly reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new analysis published by an economist from the University of Queensland.
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Cash alone will not slow forest carbon emissions
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The Global Witness Report is somewhat misleading on the deforestation rate
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Groundbreaking New UN Report on How to Feed the World's Hungry: Ditch Corporate-Controlled Agriculture
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Systematic Use of Fertilizers Can Save Forests, Fight Climate Change - Study
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Palm oil giants target Africa in 'land grab' following Indonesia deforestation banIndonesia's move to bring in a two-year moratorium on new palm oil plantations to protect its remaining rainforests has seen agribusiness giants like Sime Darby switch expansion plans to Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia
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Slash-and-burn threatens African forests
IBIDAN, Nigeria, April 7 (UPI) -- Farming of crops like cocoa, cassava and oil palm has resulted in widespread deforestation and degradation of West Africa's tropical forest area, a study says.
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Low fertilizer use drives deforestation in West Africa, imperils REDD implementation says new study
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Study calls for REDD+ money to boost yields in West Africa using agrochemicals
Small-scale agriculture — including cocoa, cassava, and oil palm farming — has driven large-scale conversion West Africa tropical forests, reports new research published in the journal Environmental Management.
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Obama’s Radical Climate Change Agenda Driving U.S. Foreign Aid Policy
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How Two 15-Year-Old Girl Scouts Are Changing a Giant Food Conglomerate
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Indonesia’s Moratorium: An Opportunity for Forests and Industry
A highly anticipated two-year moratorium on new forest conversion permits could bring fundamental improvements to forest and land management in Indonesia.
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It's Time to Outlaw Land Grabbing, Not to Make It "Responsible"!
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Developing Countries to Sign Treaty on Deforestation
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USAID Administrator Shah Commemorates Earth Day
Washington, DC – Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), released the following statement on the occasion of Earth Day.
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Oslo urges more forest aid despite corruption risk
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Trade shifts help rich meet climate goals: study
OSLO (Reuters) - The shift in manufacturing to emerging nations is doing more to curb rich countries' greenhouse gas emissions than measures they are taking to meet the U.N. pact to fight climate change, a study showed.
Rich nations benefit from U.N. rules which record greenhouse gases -- mainly from burning fossil fuels -- as those coming from each country's territory. Emissions to make a car in South Korea, for instance, remain South Korean even if the car is exported to the United States.
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Global Corruption and Climate Change
The impacts of climate change will be felt all over the world, in developed and developing countries alike. At risk are billions of dollars but more importantly the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. Corruption cannot be allowed to jeopardise efforts to combat climate change.
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Forest could become win-win business out of climate change negotiations: report
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Forests May Spur Financial Rewards, Curb Climate Change, UN Says
The world’s forests may spur financial rewards and risk management opportunities as a way to curb climate change, according to the United Nations.
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Commission underlines its commitment to helping world’s least developed countries out of poverty
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Rethink growth with forest capital
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UK animal feed helping to destroy Asian rainforest, study shows
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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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Funding for Forests: UK government support for REDD+
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Amnesty for illegal rainforest loggers moves forward in Brazil
A controversial bill environmentalists say could increase deforestation in the Amazon rainforest moved a step forward to becoming law in Brazil after winning approval in Brazil's lower house of Congress.
The measure, which has been hotly debated for months, next goes to the Senate where it is expected to pass, before heading to President Dilma Rousseff, who has vowed to veto any bill that grants amnesty for illegal deforestation. The bill includes such a measure, although it could be subject to change before a final decision by the president.
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To adapt, to mitigate or both alike? Congo Basin forests in a policy dilemma
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (24 May, 2011)_Bringing together researchers, policymakers, civil society and practitioners on development issues is quite challenging. Particularly more challenging is policy response towards climate change adaptation and mitigation in Congo Basin forests.
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By Barcoding Trees, Liberia Looks to Save its Rainforests
Nearly two-thirds of West Africa’s remaining rainforests are in the small but troubled nation of Liberia. That is a small miracle. A decade ago, Liberia’s forests were being stripped bare by warlords to fund a vicious 14-year civil war that left 150,000 dead. In 2003, the United Nations belatedly imposed an embargo on Liberian “logs of war.” Revenues crashed and, coincidentally or not, the war swiftly came to an end.
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On Our Radar: Brazilian Forest Advocate and Wife Slain
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Germany to aid Indonesia fight deforestation
JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) -- The government of Germany on Friday agreed to aid Indonesia with its Forest and Climate Change program (ForClime), local media reported.
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Indirect effect hampers Brazil's 'soy moratorium' from protecting forest
Researchers in the US have, for the first time, quantified the indirect effect that changing pasture land over to soy or biofuel production can have on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
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BP among founding members of World Bank carbon fund
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CIFOR Releases Annual Report on FORESTs
31 May 2011: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released its annual report, titled "Focus on Forests: Time to Act," which includes eight stories outlining CIFOR's global work.
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Brazil approves Belo Monte hydroelectric dam
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Smart-REDD plan targets causes of deforestation
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Rising forest density offsets climate change: study
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Togo, Nigeria Have Highest Rates of Deforestation, Study Shows
Togo, Nigeria and Ghana have the biggest rates of deforestation out of 65 nations, according to a study described by its authors as the most comprehensive analysis of tropical forests.
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UN: $40bn a year could halve deforestation worldwide
Investing just 0.034 per cent of global GDP could transform the world's forestry sector, halving deforestation rates, slashing carbon emissions and creating up to five million new jobs by the middle of the century.
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South Sudan’s tropical forests fast disappearing
South Sudan’s tropical montane forests are fast disappearing according to new analysis by PRINS Engineering. At current rates, Mount Dongotomea, located in South Sudan’s most biodiverse ecosystem, could be completely stripped of tree cover by 2020.
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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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Misconceptions about forest-dwellers overturned
Forests are vital to the livelihoods of millions of people in developing countries, providing on average more than one-fifth of their annual income, according to data presented today at a meeting in London.
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Norway, Germany give $90 mln to slow deforestation
OSLO, June 21 (Reuters) - Norway and Germany announced aid of more than $90 million on Tuesday for World Bank programmes to help slow tropical deforestation that is blamed for stoking climate change.
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Habitat cleared in carbon sink forest
A forest in Oddar Meanchey province is facing environmental “disaster” after thousands of people destroyed up to 1,000 hectares of natural habitat, putting revenues from a carbon credit scheme worth tens of millions of dollars at risk.
Proceeds from a United Nations-backed Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation scheme are said to be in danger after waves of settlers destroyed parts of the forest in Samroang district, chief of the Romdoul Veasna community forest programme, Malis Hoeuth, said yesterday.
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Ghana has the Highest Rate of Deforestation
A study, described by its authors as the most comprehensive analysis of tropical forests, has disclosed that Ghana has the highest rate of deforestation, out of 65 nations, apart from Togo and Nigeria. The illegal act of felling trees has become one of the commonest offences in Ghana today, some culprits are caught by the law, the fortunate ones are never caught, while others are sometimes deliberately let go by guardians of the law.
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New road now path to forest destruction HCM CITY — A road completed four years ago has lured farmers who have cleared hundreds of hectares of evergreen forest in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong's Lac Duong District.
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Brunei forest loss among lowest in SE AsiaBRUNEI'S deforestation rate from 2005 to 2010 was among the lowest in Southeast Asia, according to the Centre for People and Forests (RECOFTC).
During the period, deforestation in Brunei was recorded at an average annual rate of change of less than 0.5 per cent.
Laos shared a similar record in forest cover with Brunei, but the republic suffered a higher annual rate of change, of slightly over negative 0.5 per cent.
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Despite Some Efforts, Forests Continue To DwindleCambodia’s woodlands are seeing continued deforestation, despite a plan by the government to curb illegal logging, environmental groups say.
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Amazon Deforestation Rates Double as Farmers Anticipate PardonsDeforestation rates in the Amazon, the world’s biggest rain forest, more than doubled in May as Brazilian farmers become more confident they’ll be granted amnesty for illegal logging.
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VCS Approves New REDD Methodology to Avoid Unplanned Deforestation
New methodology developed by Brazil's Sustainable Amazonas Foundation & World Bank's BioCarbon Fund
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Wealthy households driving deforestation, says new studyBOGOR, Indonesia (18 July, 2011)_High income households are responsible for 30 percent more deforestation than low income households, according to preliminary results from the Poverty and Environment Network’s (PEN) global study, suggesting that it is wealth, not poverty that is driving higher ra
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Brazil’s Deforestation Quagmire – AnalysisA string of recent events indicates that Amazonian deforestation and violence against environmental activists are on the rise.
The Brazilian Congress’s lower house approves a bill that weakens protection of the rainforest—which may explain the drastic increase in deforestation, as land clearers anticipate amnesty for their crimes.
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Giving back to Mother Earth“ZAMBIA has approximately 50 million hectares of forest, with an estimated deforestation rate of 250,000 to 300,000 hectares per year.”
This is according to the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+).
Undoubtedly, deforestation continues to be a big challenge in Zambia. The uncontrolled cutting down of trees for charcoal, timber and other uses for a livelihood has continued to deplete the country’s forests.
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Palm oil, paper drive large-scale destruction of Indonesia's forests, but account for diminishing role in economy, says report mongabay.com Indonesia's forests were cleared at a rate of 1.5 million hectares per year between 2000 and 2009, reports a new satellite-based assessment by Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI), an NGO. Expansion of oil palm and wood-pulp plantations were the biggest drivers of deforestation, yet account for a declining share of the national economy.
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Small-Scale Land Speculators Contribute To Amazon DeforestationMany migrants from southern Brazil who clear forests in Brazil’s state of Amazonas are making their living as small-scale land speculators and not as farmers or as cattle ranchers, new research has found.
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Brazil’s Deforestation Quagmire – AnalysisA string of recent events indicates that Amazonian deforestation and violence against environmental activists are on the rise.
The Brazilian Congress’s lower house approves a bill that weakens protection of the rainforest—which may explain the drastic increase in deforestation, as land clearers anticipate amnesty for their crimes.
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Financing sustainable forest management: How to finance sustainable forest management to avoid deforestation and forest degradationDespite the adoption of many international agreements over the last decades, degradation of forests and deforestation has continued.
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Mexico and Indonesia boost sustainable forest managementMexico and Indonesia signed an agreement on cooperation in forestry, in order to promote strategies and policies for sustainable management of forests for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD +).
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Warning on Ta Ann practicesA MALAYSIAN parliamentarian has visited Tasmania's native forests with a warning over timber company Ta Ann's business operations in his home country.
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Local stakeholders crucial to end the fight over coal in Kutai National ParkKutai National Park in East Kalimantan made the headlines in 2009 as a conservation area in danger of being split apart for its enormous deposits of high-grade coal.
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Four months to save the world's last great wilderness from 'oil curse'
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World Bank stops funds for Cambodia over evictionsAug 9 (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Tuesday it had stopped providing loans to Cambodia and would not resume lending until the government did something to help hundreds of families facing eviction from land around a lake in the country's cap
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Deforestation, Wood Harvesting Not Correlated Industrial timber use has provided timber revenue that has helped make timber supply and demand more sustainable in the leading timber producing regions of the world.
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Protected areas are more effective at reducing deforestation when they allow sustainable forest useGuest blogger Kenneth Chomitz, Sr. Adviser, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank shares the highlights of a new study comparing deforestation in protected vs. sustainably managed forests.
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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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Tropical countries fail to bring social, environmental benefits – ReportTropical countries that seek a share of billions of dollars of climate finance in return for protecting their forests risk creating strategies that fail to bring social and environmental benefits.
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Deforestation much higher in protected areas than forests run by local communitiesBOGOR, Indonesia _ Tropical forests designated as strictly protected areas have annual deforestation rates much higher than those managed by local communities – reinforcing a challenge to a long-held belief that the best way to conserve forests is to lock them away in protected areas, according t
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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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REDD+ and Agriculture: a cross-sectoral approach to REDD+ and implications for the poor The paper outlines the linkages between forests and agriculture, and the
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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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A collection of articles and other media in respect of environmental NGO criticism
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$40bn a year could halve deforestation worldwide Investing just 0.034 per cent of global GDP could transform the world's forestry sector, halving deforestation rates, slashing carbon emissions and creating up to five million new jobs by the middle of the century.That is the conclusion of a major new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which argues that investing an average of $40bn a year in forest protection would allow forests to absorb 28 per cent more carbon from the atmosphere than they do now.
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Simmering tension over forest give-awayKAMPALA, 7 September 2011 (IRIN) - A plan to replace a large swathe of protected rainforest in Uganda with sugarcane could lead to further civil unrest in a year when nine people have been killed during strikes and protests against the rising cost of living.
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Peru approves ‘historic’ indigenous rights lawToday, indigenous people across Peru are celebrating President Ollanta Humala’s decision to approve the Prior Consultation Law. This is an important step forward for indigenous rights in the country.
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A Huge Oil Palm Plantation Puts African Rainforest at RiskIndustrial palm oil production is coming to Africa, its ancestral home. The world’s most productive oil seed has been a boon to Asian economies, but the looming arrival of large-scale plantations in Africa is raising fears that some of the same issues plaguing Malaysia, Indonesia, and other leading producers — deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, conflicts with local people, and poor working conditions — could befall one of the world’s most destitute regions.
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Avoiding deforestation in the context of biofuel feedstock expansion
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Nestle Buys Palm Oil Promises of Sinar MasSwiss food giant Nestle will resume purchases of palm oil from Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology following an 18-month halt after Smart made improvements to abide by Nestle’s guidelines for responsible environmental practices.
The parent company of the palm oil producer known as Smart, Golden Agri Resources, has been working with environmental group The Forest Trust on the implementation of a Forest Conservation Policy. The plan would ensure that GAR has no deforestation footprint and also seeks sustainable growth.
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Fewer Farms = More Forest = Less Biodiversity? If clearing tropical forests for agriculture is a major cause of the ongoing catastrophic decline in biodiversity, conventional thinking would have us believe that reducing the number of farms and allowing the forests to expand should help reverse that decline, at least locally.
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