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. Cocoa production in West Africa is an important economic activity and a source of income for about 2...
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UPI |
13 years 4 months ago
The Guardian |
13 years 4 months ago
It is a spectacle of savage beauty: splintered stumps and trunks lie like battlefield corpses between soaring oak and lime trees. Ochre-fringed bracket fungus feasts on the dead wood, while the first green shoots of spring pierce the leaf mold, amid the tracks of wolves and bison.
Newswire CA |
13 years 4 months ago
April 8 /CNW/ - "By shutting out the North, the Ontario government has just put another nail in the coffin of our province's once-thriving forest sector," says the leader of Ontario's largest forestry union. That reaction from Kim Ginter, Ontario Regional Vice-President of the Communications,...
American Progress |
13 years 4 months ago
Lawmakers continue to debate the fiscal year 2011 budget. As we approach the next showdown this week over another temporary extension of the continuing resolution, a final resolution of the 2011 budget, or a government shutdown, the top climate issue in this debate is whether the Environmental...
World Agroforestry Centre |
13 years 4 months ago
Investments in agricultural research and development, including agroforestry and community forestry, are important for maintaining the livelihoods of many forest-dependent people in developing countries and should not be overlooked in the REDD+ debate, according to a working paper by the land...
Bretton Woods Project |
13 years 4 months ago
As details emerge of the World Bank's new facility to pay countries for preventing deforestation and forest degradation, concerns about its operations and governance mount.
ProFor |
13 years 4 months ago
Brunei Direct |
13 years 4 months ago
Mexico City - The Minister of Development, Pehin Orang Kaya Indera Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Suyoi bin Haji Osman, together with officials from the Ministry of Development as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade attended the Informal Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change '...
Bretton Woods Project |
13 years 4 months ago
The World Bank has come under fire for its Inspection Panel’s decision not to investigate its forestry sector programme in Liberia, while new reports from civil society groups add to the backlog of criticism over the Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF).
E Turbo News |
13 years 4 months ago
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (eTN) - Tanzania's President has rejected an application to place some mountains in the Eastern Arc under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a World Heritage Site. The President, Mr. Jakaya Kikwete, nullified an application...
EFI |
13 years 4 months ago
The European Forest Institute (EFI) will establish a Policy Advice office in Barcelona by this summer. This decision follows a very generous offer by Spain to host the office. The office will include also FLEGT-REDD activities, funded by the European Commission, which are a growing component of...
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 4 months ago
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Apr 5, 2011 - Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) announced today it is expanding its partnership with Carbon Conservation by engaging the environmental and sustainability consulting firm to help craft Vision 2020, a roadmap to guide sustainability principles, goals and program...
LaoVoices |
13 years 4 months ago
The German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ) has provided 4 million euros to the Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) project in Laos. The project will run for seven years, from 2010-2017, with a focus on the national protected areas of Nam Pouy in Xayaboury...
Mongabay |
13 years 4 months ago
A new report from World Growth International, a lobby group for industrial forestry interests, contains "false and misleading" information on the economic impact of reducing Indonesia's deforestation rate, says an Indonesian environmental group. The report, released today, claims that reducing...
FAO |
13 years 4 months ago
6 April 2011, Rome/Avignon - A new partnership for Mediterranean forests has been established to address major threats to the region's forests being exacerbated by the severe impact of climate change. The partnership was announced at the Second Mediterranean Forest Week, which is taking place in...
BWINT - Building and Wood Worker's International |
13 years 4 months ago
As countries are working towards formulation UN REDD national programs, questions are being asked as to whether the REDD+ based projects are able to increase participation of variety of stakeholders including trade Unions? And also whether forest workers and communities are effectively...
FavStocks |
13 years 4 months ago
As EDF’s Amazon Basin Project coordinator, I spend much of my time working in Latin America with our non-governmental allies to discuss REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) with indigenous groups. REDD+ has come so far since conceived two decades ago; the ...
Alert Net |
13 years 4 months ago
Bogota (AlertNet) – More than 1,000 families in the municipality of Acandi, on the Panama border, are aiming to become one of the first Colombian communities to sell carbon credits generated by their forest conservation activities on the international voluntary market.
Today Gambia |
13 years 4 months ago
The Gambia has nominated for the Community Forestry Management Awards under the Future Policy Award 2011, being organized by the World Future Council, a Hamburg-based charitable foundation which brings the interests of future generations to the centre of policy-making across the world. Through...
PR Newswire |
13 years 4 months ago
SAN FRANCISCO, March 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Seven companies, including four from the Fortune 500, have made new commitments and actions to stop using the Sustainable Forestry Initiative's (SFI) 'eco-label' on branded paper products or company publications. Aetna, Allstate, Garnet...