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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EC Study "The impact of EU consumption on deforestation"Introduction
Deforestation is the permanent conversion of forest land into other uses. The main drivers of worldwide deforestation are agricultural expansion, logging, expansion of urban areas, and natural or human-induced disasters (e.g. wildfire).
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Europas Fleischhunger vernichtete zehntausende Quadratkilometer Wald
Zwischen 1990 und 2008 90.000 Quadratkilometer Wald für Agrarprodukte für Europa abgeholzt
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NZ - Forestry boom for East Coast economyForestry is delivering a massive economic benefit to the Gisborne region in New Zealand and, with an expected boom in log exports, by 2020 one in 10 people could earn a living from the sector, according to a new economic study.
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Why Ecuador's president is misleading the world on Yasuni-ITT
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A new study shows what is wiping out our national forests, and how to find an environmentally friendly way forwardForest areas in Thailand have been shrinking at an alarming rate. Between 1973 and 2009, 30.9 million rai of land was cleared of trees, according to a study by Khwanchai Duangsathaporn, assistant professor at the Department of Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry at Kasetsart University.
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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 study forecasts over 25 percent depletion of world's forestsForests worldwide will continue to slowly shrink before leveling out at a lower level, say researchers based at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, in a new study.
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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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Rhetoric or action in global efforts to protect forest communities?JOHANNESBURG, 29 October 2013 (IRIN) - A UN mechanism that purports to involve forest-dependent communities in preventing forest loss to curtail greenhouse gas emissions is failing to do so, finds a new study.
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Deforestation causes being overlooked, report findsA media analysis has revealed that the fundamental issue relating to the reasons behind deforestation is being overlooked while debates about REDD+ rage on.
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Causes of deforestation getting lost in REDD+ rhetoric – analysisDebates about REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) are skirting a fundamental issue by failing to discuss what actually causes deforestation in the first place, a media analysis has fo
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“Zero” deforestation targets misleading, say expertsWARSAW, Poland — Targets set by governments and others to cut deforestation can be misleading and might not save as much rainforest as intended, undermining the fight against climate change, scientists say in a review published on
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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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News: European Parliament gets tough on illegal loggingEU suppliers of timber from illegal sources must pay fines that reflect the real environmental and economic damage done by illegal logging, said Environment Committee MEPs on Tuesday.
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Guyana’s prime timbers – over-harvested, under-priced and minimally taxed
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Three Reasons FAO’s New Forest Numbers Don’t Add UpDeforestation has made several big headlines in recent weeks:
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Issue date: Thursday 22 October 2015 09.19 BST Europe failing to clamp down on illegal logging, report warnsAuditors say EU scheme to tackle $100bn global trade in illegal timber is poorly designed, badly managed and largely ineffective
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Ending Tropical Deforestation: Have We Got Our Priorities Backwards?In working to change the world, there’s always a need to keep asking ourselves whether we’re focusing on what’s most important.
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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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