Reforestation Articles & Analysis
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Reforestation has long been recognized as an essential strategy for creating a sustainable future and reducing carbon emissions. ...
Working alongside Winjan Aboriginal Corporation, Eden Towers and IGS will first use the vertical farm near Perth to grow food crops like the warrigal plant a type of bush tucker spinach, and bush tucker celery, with a view to broaden this over time to pharmaceutical and cosmetic crops. It also plans to support reforestation projects in the area. The project has also secured ...
“We are very pleased to extend our partnership with BPA to ensure the use of world’s best genetics in our large-scale reforestation activities. This on-going commitment is vital to further develop our local pongamia genetics library which will have far reaching impacts for the decarbonization of the global fuel and food economies and the sequestration of carbon from ...
Leading agro-research company Investancia has teamed up with EcoMatcher to track a large-scale reforestation project using EcoMatcher’s blockchain-enabled digital tree-planting platform. ...
Investancia CEO and Founder, Marcel van Heesewijk, did a live interview with Brazilian tv channel Agromais (in Portuguese), where he explained about Pongamia reforestation oil and its many benefits. To see video, please click ...
Over the last year, SOIL has captured and safely treated 450 metric tons of waste that could have otherwise gone on to contaminate aquatic ecosystems and groundwater sources. The over 92 metric tons of compost produced during this time has instead been returned to the soil to restore ecosystems and improve agricultural livelihoods in northern Haiti. As SOIL works towards an ambitious expansion of ...
An IUCN study has identified tree species native to Indonesia’s Kutai National Park that are resilient to climate change and support threatened East Bornean orangutan populations, recommending their use in reforestation efforts. The study was funded by the Indianapolis Zoological Society, Inc. Recognising that saplings planted today face dramatic climate changes over ...
The more than 100 metric of tons of compost that SOIL produces annually is used to support agriculture and reforestation efforts in Haiti, ensuring nutrient recirculation and improving soil carbon sequestration. ...
The resulting Class A biosolids are used in agriculture, urban green spaces or, like in Beijing’s case, reforestation projects. In this way, Cambi’s technology improves the urban environment in Beijing and helps China meet its renewable energy and climate change goals. ...
With the coffee-growing families in the river basins of Antioquia, Caldas, Cauca, Nariño and Valle del Cauca, the transfer has to take place of appropriate technologies for adequate water use and pollution management on the coffee farms; at the same time, bioengineering and reforestation techniques are applied to stabilize the river basin ecosystems. ...
A reforestation project has revitalised its surroundings just 80 years after its inception. ...
"By the time the formal environmental review of salvage operations has been completed in a year, what was once forestland will have already begun converting to brushland, and by the following year, reforestation will become infinitely more difficult and expensive." The Rim Fire started in August and grew to become one of the largest wildfires in California history. ...
It therefore supports farmers who wish to reforest part of their farmland. CAP and trade Is Europe open to food imports? ...
The airline offsets CO2 emissions through CarbonFund.org which manages a variety of sustainable initiatives including renewable energy and methane projects; energy efficiency and carbon credits and reforestation. Additionally, over the past six years through its One Thing That's Green, JetBlue has planted 1,333 trees and cleaned up nearly three tons of trash throughout New York ...
Led by the National Park Service and the Office of Surface Mining – Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative (ARRI), over 15,000 seedlings were planted at the memorial site during the last two weekends of April. ...
Resource Environmental Solutions (RES), founded in Baton Rouge, a national ecological restoration company, with operations in Louisiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, donated 2,500 live oak and cypress trees throughout 57 parishes in Louisiana including Orleans and surrounding parishes, announced CEO Elliott Bouillion. With the unanimous passing of HCR86 on May 8, 2013, RES ...
This is the second year of a major volunteer reforestation effort at the memorial that will eventually result in 150,900 new trees at the site. ...
Having these amenities within a close proximity promotes walking and the use of public transportation which in turn can reduce the amount of single occupancy vehicles being used and diminish pollution. Sixaola Reforestation Project - Costa RicaChiquita's owned and independent banana farms are located in Latin America. ...
A project that aims to reforest 15,000 hectares of degraded lands in central Ghana and absorb more than 80,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually has been independently validated by SCS Global Services (SCS) under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS). ...
Other actions include restoration and reforestation; and landscape scale planning. The review also found that reducing deforestation and degradation offered "the greatest and most immediate benefits" compared to forestation programmes that had slower and smaller benefits. ...