Forests News
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Forest cover can guide effective REDD+ development policies – experts
The extent and rate of change to a country’s forest cover provides a useful guide for designing context-specific and effective…
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Postcards from the field: Nuts about Brazil nuts
Olivia Revilla is a forestry student at the Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios (UNAMAD) in Peru. She is…
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Learning experience: Young Peruvian foresters contribute to Brazil nut research
Deep in a Brazil-nut forest in the Peruvian Amazon, university student Hideki Kohagura Arrunatogui is working alongside harvester Serapio Condori…
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Landscapes approach: a red herring or a boon for food security?
Globalization, population growth and competition for land make it mandatory to consider ecosystems and humans as integrally entwined entities. Not…
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Defining “forest” could improve REDD+ monitoring in Indonesia
If policymakers fail to consider carefully how they define forests, they risk compromising the potential success of the U.N.-backed REDD+…
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Harvesting both timber and Brazil nuts in Peru’s Amazon forests: Can they coexist?
In the Brazil nut forests of the Peruvian Amazon, scientists from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) are trying…
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Between the Amazon and the Atlantic: Brazil’s threatened savannas
The Amazon rainforest has long been a focus for environmentalists, scientists and policy makers, but they are now starting to…
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Seeing the forest and the trees: Brazil’s transparency in deforestation data
Brazil’s deforestation tracking system – followed up with enforcement measures on the ground – is often cited as a key…
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Five questions about Sustainable Development Goals and the potential role of landscapes
As the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw approach, it’s time to take stock of the international development framework within which…
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Martyr of the Amazon: The legacy of Chico Mendes
It’s impossible to talk about forests in Acre, Brazil, without mentioning the state’s home-grown hero: rubber-tapper, union-leader and Amazon-defender Chico…
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Land rights: Both prerequisite and incentive for smallholder-based REDD+
Incipient initiatives designed to reduce carbon emissions through avoided deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) are also helping to secure forest…
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Postcards from the field: All you need is a hammock
Late on an Acre afternoon we arrive at a small farmhouse along the newly-paved BR-364 Highway in the Brazilian state’s…
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Monitoring of carbon-rich wetlands a focus at U.N. climate talks
New guidelines for calculating carbon emissions from wetlands will provide a more accurate picture of buried treasure — a massive…
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Lessons from the Amazon: Searching for a Sustainable Future for Forests and People
The Amazon rainforest hosts some of the richest biodiversity in the world; stores vast amounts of carbon; and regulates the…
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From the Amazon to the world: A story of Brazil nuts
Every wet season in the Western Amazon, Peru’s castañeros (brazil nut concession holders and harvesters) gather the huge brazil nut…
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