Forest Conservation Articles & Analysis
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Forestry Management and its Technology Effective forest monitoring and management is significant for forest conservation and proper utilization. ...
The ‘Scaling up the implementation of the Lao PDR Emission Reductions Programme (Project 2)’ aims to address decades of forest loss. Building on and coordinating with complementary initiatives including the success of FP117 (GIZ Laos Project 1), Lao PDR leverages GCF funding to further remove investment, policy, and financing barriers to create a sustainable ...
The benefits to society overall is a reduction in - deforestation, illegal logging, costs of forest management, forest fires, and costs of forest mapping. Who Can Use Precision Forestry? ...
In this installment, William Laurance, distinguished research professor and Australian Laureate at James Cook University, answers the question: “In 2016, what should be the focus of efforts to conserve rain forests?” In 2016, efforts to conserve rain forests need to focus on two things. First, ...
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In a paper published in the October 2015 issue of the journal BioScience, the researchers point out that the current emphasis on trees as tools for sequestering atmospheric carbon has led to a number of initiatives that encourage planting trees on grasslands or allowing forests to expand into grasslands. The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Clean Development ...
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As a result of the destruction of forests with high conservation value, the rich biodiversity in these ecosystems has become threatened. ...
During the last two springs, contract planters for The Nature Conservancy have spread out through the pine, spruce and aspen forest of northeastern Minnesota. ...
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In more recent times increased land use, expanding urban areas, and climate change have all contributed to place more pressure on forests. The European Union (EU) has long been committed to biodiversity conservation in the EU. ...
REDD+ recognizes five activities that developing countries can do to earn compensation from developed countries, including: * Reducing emissions from deforestation; * Reducing emissions from forest degradation; * Sustainable management of forests; * Conservation of forest carbon stocks; and * Enhancement of ...
Knowledge used by indigenous peoples about the conservation and management of their resources has traditionally been underestimated by many conservationists. Conservation has been regarded as a modern concept, which is hitherto unknown by most ‘primitive’ societies. Looking at it from an emic point of view, this paper attempts to analyse the extent to which the ...
We must recognize the rights of local communities and indigenous peoples and involve them in the decision-making processes that affect the forests they directly depend on for their livelihoods. These groups have a close relationship with forests and can be effective leaders in forest conservation. ...
In these agreements, Parties stated that reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, conservation and enhancement of forest carbon stocks, and sustainable management of forests in developing countries should be recognized as mitigation actions. ...
To date, traditional public land acquisition programs have played a relatively small role in the conservation and sustainable management of southern U.S. forests. The South trails behind other U.S. regions in both the percent of the land base and the acres per capita conserved in parks, wildlife refuges, wilderness, and other protective ...
To date, traditional public land acquisition programs have played a relatively small role in the conservation and sustainable management of southern U.S. forests. The South trails behind other U.S. regions in both the percent of the land base and the acres per capita conserved in parks, wildlife refuges, wilderness, and other protective ...
The need for population control policies, and family planning, are considered along with effective controls and regulation of rainforest exploitation.Keywords: biological diversity, developing countries, environment, family planning, forestry products, logging, population control, rainforests, tropical forests, forest conservation, ...
Despite the ever-increasing concern about their conservation, tropical forests in Thailand are undergoing depletion and degradation, because the government pursued a policy of increasing national revenue through commercial logging and forest encroachment for the expansion of commercial agriculture until the end of 1980s. ...
Over the longer term, developing alternative energy sources is the key to reducing forest pressure in developing countries. Despite the high value to society of intact forests, only about 290 million hectares of global forest area are legally protected from logging. ...
The positive relationship between the returns to forest use and forest labour share provides a cautionary message for policy-makers and other stakeholders concerned with the fate of the Kakamega forest. In the short term, it seems probable that the returns to forest use will increase as the aggregate demand for ...
Forest Landscape Restoration resonates for those working in international policy arenas as well as those on the ground. This was a common message expressed by the Forestry Commission of Great Britain, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), WWF and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) at a seminar on Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) held yesterday ...