Steps taken to improve coastal forest economyTo increase harvesting activity on the coast, government is exploring the use of new scanner technology for scaling logs, accelerating the auction of an additional 500,000 cubic metres by BC Timber Sales, improving the log-export system and exploring ways to better harvest the timber profile.
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Brazil – the world’s largest industrial eucalypt estateThere are 7 million ha of industrial quality planted forest in Brazil with almost 2 million ha of pine and 5 million ha of hardwood, principally eucalypts. This plantation base has formed the basis for most of the forest industry expansion.
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Mixed forests: A missed opportunity?Forestry and nature conservation can benefit from promoting a diversity of tree species, new study finds. Modern forestry is largely based on monocultures—in Sweden usually pine or spruce—mainly because it is considered more rational.
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Impacts of biofuel cultivation on mortality and crop yieldsFighting climate change by producing more biofuels could actually worsen a little-known type of air
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Amerindians will comply with forest rules – TAAMOGThe Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana (TAAMOG) has hailed Guyana’s receipt of the US$45 million for climate services provided by Norway, while noting that Amerindian communities are following guidelines for sustainable forest management. In a re
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Indigenous Leaders Embrace REDD, With Or Without Carbon MarketsMore than a dozen indigenous leaders from across the Amazon endorsed efforts to save endangered rainforest using financial mechanisms that reward good land stewardship and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest d
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100 Mile House timber supply review underwayThe British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations is inviting public review and comment until March 9, 2013, on a public discussion paper released today as part of a comprehensive timber supply review of the 100 Mile House timber sup
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Forests' Protection Needs Community Support
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Ben Parfitt: Sneaky Liberals are planning a B.C. forest giveawayGiven the short duration of the upcoming legislative session and the provincial election to follow, a government plan to introduce a scant two-paragraph bill granting it powers to fundamentally alter the course of forestry in B.C. is disturbing, to say the least.
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WWF’s Living Forests Report forecasts a tripling of wood consumption in society by 2050 due to rising population and demandBy 2050, rising population and demand, as well as an increase in use of wood for bioenergy, could triple the amount of wood society takes from forests and plantations per year, according to the latest instalment of WWF's Living Forests Report .
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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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Forests and Food: Thoughts on Our Fear of Working Together
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New Iwokrama Board chairman salutes Guyana’s LCDS modelRenowned climate scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri was late this evening installed Chairman of Guyana’s well known international rain forest conservation, research and development centre Iwokrama.
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Biodiversity in Logged Forests Far Higher Than Once BelievedNew research shows that scientists have significantly overestimated the damage that logging in tropical forests has done to biodiversity, a finding that could change the way conservationists think about how best to preserve species in areas disturbed by humans.
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Towards Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes in SurinameSuriname is an interesting example when considering development of sustainable agricultural sector in the context of a landscape approach; one that considers multiple demands from scarce land resources, such as food and fuel, and preserving nature.
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Suriname secures first funding for REDD+ participationPARAMARIBO–Suriname has secured approval for its Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP 2013) and will receive US$ 3.8 million to prepare for participation in the United Nation’s REDD+ initiatives that focus on reducing emissions from deforestation and enhancing forest carbon stocks.
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The International Forestry Fund presents to the China Investment CorporationA delegation representing the International Forestry Fund visited China in September (2010) to meet with provincial governors and their senior forestry officials.
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REDD+ plans presented successfully PARAMARIBO - John Goedschalk, the President’s climate adviser, is proud with the approval of the REDD+ preparation plan by the World Bank. “I’m proud that the project plan is a real Surinamese product.
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First results forest inventory promisingPARAMARIBO - The first results of the pilot project National Forest Inventory of the Forest Management and Inspection Foundation (SBB) seem promising. Starting in April of last year, 3D aerial photos were taken of the country’s forest.
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Climate finance that makes sense to farmersAgricultural carbon projects involving smallholder farmers can take up to 16 years to generate a profit from carbon credits.
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Mongolia’s Forest Sector is Good Value for MoneyMost people associate Mongolia with vast open plains and rolling hills of steppe grassland, but it also contains significant forest cover. The UN-REDD Programme recently completed a study to calculate the economic value of the forest sector and assess key financing constraints.
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Biodiversity paradigm questioned after flaws found in logging impact research BOGOR, Indonesia (19 July, 2013) — Studies about the impact of logging on biodiversity in tropical regions should be scrutinized, conclusions toned down or even discounted, according to a recent publication in the journal “Conservation Biology“ that has revealed w
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Ohne Großtiere wird die Erde kargAmazonien sieht nur so aus wie ein Paradies. In Wahrheit ist es eine „grüne Wüste“ mit kargen Böden, aus denen die Biomasse kaum Nährstoffe ziehen kann.
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Amazon rainforest seeing slower growth due to animal extinctionDeforestation has led to the extinction of large mammals across the Amazon rainforest, which is now having a marked impact on the growth rates of new trees, according to scientists.
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Communities need more than money to stop clearing their forests, new research shows
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FAO National Forest Programme Facility Transitions to Landscape ApproachSeptember 2013: Following a decade of allocating hundreds of small grants to strengthen the participation of stakeholders in developing national forest programmes, the National Forest Programme Facility of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) will continue as the Forest and Farm
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How tropical forests speed their own recoveryWashington: A new study has revealed that tropical forests speed their own recovery by capturing nitrogen and carbon faster after being logged or cleared for agriculture.
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Heavily logged forests still valuable for tropical wildlifeNew research has found rainforests that have been logged several times continue to hold substantial value for biodiversity and could have a role in conservation.
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Do carbon offsets work? The role of forest management in greenhouse gas mitigationAuthor: Fried, Jeremy
Date: 2013
Source: Science Findings 155. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 5 p.
Station ID: SF-PNW-155
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Scottish academics lead rainforest research projectA team from Aberdeen University is to lead a four-year study involving UK and international partners, into the impact of humans on tropical rainforests.
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New EU group to promote sustainable tropical timberAn organisation aiming to ensure tropical timber is used sustainably across the European Union will be launched next month.
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Texas Forests provide $93 billion in environmental benefits each year
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Protecting tropical rainforest: are parks or payments best?Tropical forests are home to many species as well as a store for large amounts of carbon, but they’re under threat of destruction.
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Logging, tropical forests and biodiversity — what we don’t know A new paper in Conservation Biology (subscription required) from researchers at UC Berkeley and elsewhere provides an important reminder that we often don’t know as much as we think we do about ecological systems and the effe
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Identifying sustainable forest management research narratives: a text mining approachAlthough it is obvious that research regarding Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) is context specific and developed over time, not many research papers yet intended to investigate these changes. As a matter of fact, the number of scientific publications addressing SFM is relatively high. Hence, such a wide field cannot be sufficiently covered by traditional literature review approaches. With this paper, we aim at identifying the most convergent narratives within the SFM-research landscape by applying a text mining methodology to recent scientific literature. By doing so, we generated results that indicate that there may have been three phases in the evolution of SFM-research: the early phase covers in particular issues regarding land use in tropical and developing countries. Furthermore, papers in this phase tend to focus on general concepts or policy issues. In contrast, the second phase is characterized by a larger share of publications in forestry focused journals. This process is seemingly connected with issues like forest management, certification, forest stand management and the development of sustainability indicators. A third phase can be observed by the relative downturn of publications in forest-focused journals between 2005 and 2010. A new focus in this period is climate change.
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