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. The study provides much-needed solid evidence for the importance of forests to the world...
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Nature |
14 years 11 months ago
The Ecologist |
14 years 11 months ago
Global study finds forests provide one-fifth of household income in rural communities and says access for them should be prioritised in REDD-type conservation projects We are 'undervaluing' the income rural communities in developing countries derive from forests, according to major survey of 25...
International Forest Industries |
14 years 11 months ago
Forest Europe |
14 years 11 months ago
The protection and sustainable management of Europe’s forests requires a stable and efficient platform for coherent policy development and implementation. Therefore, European ministers responsible for forests made the historical decision yesterday to launch negotiations for a Legally Binding...
Indepth News |
14 years 12 months ago
BONN (IDN) - Reflecting profound concerns of developing countries, a new report has strongly criticised the World Bank group for promoting false solutions to climate change, such as carbon trading, megadams, agrofuels and industrial monoculture tree plantations.
Science Magazine |
14 years 12 months ago
Mongabay |
14 years 12 months ago
Mongabay |
14 years 12 months ago
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.
Climate-I |
15 years 2 days ago
30 May 2011: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) launched a sustainable forest management project in Cambodia, which aims to promote forest conservation, benefit the rural poor, and contribute to climate change mitigation.
ePrints |
15 years 2 days ago
Maguire, Rowena (2010) The international regulation of sustainable forest management : doctrinal concepts, governing institutions and implementation. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
Good News Finland |
15 years 2 days ago
Finnish forest product company UPM has signed a conservation easement agreement with the State of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on 76,000 hectares of UPM-owned forest land in Northern Minnesota. The agreement secures the future economic and recreational use of the company's forests...
Bernama |
15 years 2 days ago
KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 (Bernama) -- Malaysia received RM43 million in official development aid (ODA) from the European Union (EU) last year to promote legal timber trade and sustainable forest management. In a statement Friday, the EU Delegation to Malaysia said the EU was also funding projects...
Portal ANGOP |
15 years 2 days ago
Brazzaville - The President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, defended on Friday the establishment of partnerships between the sustainable forest management and the development of the countries located in the three tropical forest basins of the world. The Congolese statesman said...
AllAfrica |
15 years 2 days ago
Greenpeace today reacted to two recent cases of social conflicts between logging companies and local communities that have reportedly resulted in violent police interventions, arrests and reported abuses. Greenpeace is calling on the Democratic Republic of Congo' government to commit to upholding...
Reuters |
15 years 3 days ago
BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Leaders from the world's three largest forest basins said they would work together to tackle deforestation, on the final day of a weeklong conference, in Brazzaville. Heads of state and ministers from countries in the Amazon, Congo and Borneo-Mekong basins signed a...
Mongabay, Nature, BusinessGreen |
15 years 3 days ago
MONGABAY.COM: 90% of tropical forests managed poorly or not at all More than 90 percent of tropical forests are managed poorly or not at all, says a new assessment by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO).
SADC |
15 years 3 days ago
In a recently conducted survey among government officials and decision-makers from the SADC Member States on climate change issues, more than 90% of respondents identified REDD+ as an important, quite important or very important issue in the international climate change negotiations. There are...
DEFRA |
15 years 3 days ago
The true value of nature can be shown for the very first time thanks to groundbreaking research by hundreds of UK scientists. The research forms the basis of a major new independent report – the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (UK NEA) – which reveals that nature is worth billions of pounds to...
Reuters |
15 years 3 days ago
Simon Kasagana knows his meager livelihood depends on the forest, but like many others eking out a living in the vast Congo basin, he has little choice but to destroy it. He used to be a nursing assistant, but the pay was too low to live off, so he began cutting trees for a local businessman,...
Bloomberg |
15 years 3 days ago
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.