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TL;DR — As wildfires become an increasingly frequent part of our world due to a changing climate, forest management practices that maintain healthy forests play a vital role in protecting ecosystems, public health, and air quality. ...
This reduces reliance on virgin wood pulp, promoting sustainable forest management. Biodegradable Bliss: Unlike their foam counterparts, paper egg cartons decompose naturally, leaving minimal impact on landfills and the environment. ...
The key is implementing new data-based management methods—accurate and comprehensive inventory. Why is forest management critical? ...
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 ...
FutMon project Delta‐T Profile Probes have been installed at four sites across the U.K. to provide soil moisture data as part of FutMon, an EU Life+ project. The aim of FutMon is to create a Europe‐ wide long term forest monitoring system. The FutMon partner organisation in the UK is Forest Research (Centre for Forestry and Climate Change). The data required for FutMon are being ...
Never before has the interest in preserving natural forests and efficient management of plantations been as great as the present. ...
Accurate scale data is paramount to proper fiber supply management. Without, it becomes difficult to conduct essential business activities, such as prove wood origin or pay suppliers. ...
They are: SMSYardBoss – Specifically designed for fiber supply management, the implementation of this software will help you handle the many variations in raw material supply chain management practices across all facility and fiber types. ...
This is a problem, as these lands are critical to reaching sustainable forest management goals in the U.S., primarily due to the large acreage under single ownership, and the consistency of the land passing down through generations. ...
Between 1995 and 2010, logging in the Upper Guinea rain forest — one of the world’s biodiversity hot spots — increased by over 600 percent. ...
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In particular, the consequences of the creation of protected areas, in which forests within these boundaries were nationalised resulted in local populations losing customary access rights. ...
The local people who once depended on the forest are then forced to abandon their relationship with it and to adopt a lifestyle that does not depend on forest wealth. ...
It especially questions the effectiveness and efficiency of the supported policies in relation to forest management and livelihood improvement of the people living in mountainous areas. It finally draws out seven key lessons learnt and five policy implications which are hopefully to serve as references for policy makers when setting up future programmes, ...
I wanted to know more about the available methods for managing carbon stocks while respecting local communities. So I attended a side event that offered an insight into the challenges of measuring the carbon stored in forests to help countries protect them. The UN’s REDD+ programme prescribes a system of measurement, reporting and verification (known as ...
Although they are primarily an island-dwelling people, the Guna maintain a symbiotic relationship with their mainland forest — some of the best preserved old-growth forest in all of Central America — which they consider sacred and from which they take only what they need. Since 2008, the Guna’s forest has been at the center of ...
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What’s noteworthy about planting trees in a forest? Usually foresters plant seedlings grown from seeds harvested nearby, on the assumption that local genotypes are best suited to local conditions. ...
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A main threat to forest biodiversity is the loss of 'naturalness' of forest ecosystems as a consequence of intensive and inappropriate ecosystem management. ...
FORMA (FORest Monitoring for Action) is designed to help people managing forests respond more quickly to unwanted forest loss. Learn more about the system through our new issue brief, which compares FORMA’s performance to systems specific to the Brazilian Amazon, PRODES and DETER. Rather than hoping forest ...
Dismissed as a weed or marginalized in traditional forest management, bamboo could actually play an important role in forest and landscape restoration. ...
A New Tool to Promote Better Forest Management Much more important than the technology, though, are the evolving efforts of governments, communities, and a handful of large companies to do a better job of managing forests. ...