Failed audits, destruction of intact forests: Report reveals AbibitiBowater's miserable logging record in OntarioA new Greenpeace report shows, that despite receiving advice to not extend the company's licence, the Ontario government allowed AbitibiBowater to clearcut thousands of hectares of vital woodland caribou habitat in northwestern Ontario, increa
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Forest managment planning in the Congo Basin RainforestsForest management planning in Congo Basin rainforests : a critical analysis of the state of art and design of a new planning system as a contribution to sustainable forest management
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MRV and Monitoring for REDD+ ImplementationPeter Holmgren, Director of Climate, Energy and Tenure Division and UN-REDD Programme Coordinator at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), explains the challenges ahead and key steps when it comes to setting-up a national monitoring system for REDD+.
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Carbon mapping breakthroughPalo Alto, CA—By integrating satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys, scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, with colleagues from the World Wildlife Fund and in coordination with the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment (MI
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Certification fails to protect B.C. forests
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Kyrgyzstan: Capacity Building for National Forest and Tree Resource Assessment and Monitoring The forestry sector of Kyrgyzstan is confronted with several problems. Due to the lack of timber imports, overgrazing and population growth, the Kyrgyz forests are under pressure.
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Institutions should facilitate local forest monitoringFor many policy analysts and scholars, turning forest management over to governments, particularly as protected areas, is one way to preserve forests.
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Tanzania to create forest inventory to help fight climate change
DAR ES SALAAM (AlertNet) – Tanzania plans to draw up a comprehensive inventory of its forests to replace outdated statistics and help the east African country to conserve woodland, preserve livelihoods and curb climate change.
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Environmentalists to Be Trained in Forest Monitoring
Rwandan forest monitoring specialists are set to undergo training in modern techniques to help them implement and improve national forest monitoring programs.
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Taking stock of trade and the planet’s woodlands in the International Year of ForestsForests provide vital resources to humanity, both directly in the form of timber and non-timber products and indirectly in the form of ecosystem services, such as biodiversity, carbon storage, and soil and watershed management.
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GOB “fiddling” while Guats continue raping Chiquibul Forest!
Over the course of the past year, 300 acres inside the Chiquibul Forest have been hacked, and the razed portions of the forest to date amount to 13,000 acres – larger than Belize City. That is according to Rafael Manzanero, the executive director of Friends for Conservation and Development (FCD), who spoke with Amandala today, Thursday, in Belmopan.
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Carbon Development AssociateWildlife Works Carbon LLC (WWC) is an innovative start‐up company headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA that engages with the global carbon market to enhance conservation in tropical countries.
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Guidelines on participatory forest inventory
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USA - USDA: New Forest Planning Rule
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Better Forest Data Lends Confidence to Carbon MarketsA study published in Nature Climate Change this week measured both the biomass of different types of tropical forests and the emissions lost via deforestation, providing more accurate data than was previously
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16 North Rupununi villages involved in Community Monitoring, Reporting and Verification Another major initiative to ensure that Guyana’s natural resources and wealth are sustainably harvested for the development of its present and future generations, the Community Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (C-MRV) Project that will have the involvement of 16 villages of the North Rupunu
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Clean-tech Finance Bill changes welcomed by Green IFSCThe clean-tech tax changes to the Finance Bill have been welcomed by the Green IFSC, which says Ireland’s Government is likely the first in the world to recognise forest carbon credits in tax legislation.
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Satellites for Climate Checks Get Boost After Durban TalksFeb. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilian deforestation and melting polar ice caps are feeding a boom in demand in the $2.1 billion market for satellite data, images and services used to monitor the planet.
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Satellite images to be used in mapping forests in Fiji The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has embarked on a program to build capacity in mapping land/forest cover in Fiji using very high resolution satellite images, according to SPC Regional Community Forester Jalesi Mateboto on Thursday.
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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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Report reveals how much timber there is in Britain’s forestsBritain’s forests contain an estimated 336 million cubic metres of coniferous timber, according to a report just published by the Forestry Commission.
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Sri Lanka lacks forest data for REDD+ fundsLack of reliable data on forest resources could prevent Sri Lanka from immediately accessing UN funds pledged to help the island nation reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, a new
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Forest-rich nations need progress on MRV and REDD+ financingDiscussions on how mitigation and adaptation funds will be raised and used in the second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol from 2013-2020 will be key during the climate change talks in Bonn to ensure that REDD+ can move forward.
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Ten Central African countries agree to improve forest monitoringA new regional initiative will help ten Central African countries to set up advanced national forest monitoring systems, FAO announced today.
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Counting carbon: Measuring carbon stocks in logging concessions in Cameroon Deep inside a logging concession in southern Cameroon, scientists from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) are measuring the carbon content of a huge tree, selectively felled by a timber company.
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Capacity development in national forest monitoringThe development of a system for forest monitoring and measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) is an on-going priority – and challenge – for REDD+ countries.
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