New interactive software will help measure carbon in Indonesia’s peatlands
BOGOR, Indonesia (22 November, 2012)_The governments of Indonesia and Germany have joined together to produce a set of guidelines and…
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Exploring the world’s richest pools of carbon
JAMBI, Indonesia (22 November, 2012)_He carries with him a large black rucksack and carefully removes from it his mini-rhizotron video…
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The ‘big story is carbon’, but more research needed on forgotten greenhouse gases found in peat, says expert
BOGOR, Indonesia (22 November, 2012)_In this conversation with Forests News, Kristell Hergoualc’h, a scientist at the Center for International Forestry…
8 min readHeart of Darkness: Digging into Indonesia’s prized wetlands
BOGOR, Indonesia (22 November, 2012)_A team of researchers from the Center for International Forestry Research have been cramped in a…
6 min readWill REDD+ undermine democracy or transform it?
BOGOR, Indonesia (22 October 2012)_A climate mitigation scheme aiming to protect the world’s forests must work through local democratic institutions…
6 min readAction on agriculture needed at upcoming U.N. climate talks
BOGOR, Indonesia (21 November, 2012)_Support for a work program on agriculture is urgently needed at Doha to incorporate the growing…
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Counting carbon: Measuring carbon stocks in logging concessions in Cameroon
Deep inside a logging concession in southern Cameroon, scientists from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) are measuring the…
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Postcards from the field: On the Congo River
Félicien Kengoum and I are in a small motor boat in the middle of the Congo River. We’re returning from…
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The Congo Basin Forests: What policymakers should know
The pulse in the heart of Africa: The Congo Basin contains the second largest expanse of tropical forest in the world,…
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Up the river & paddling hard: Climate adaptation & mitigation in the Congo
LUKOLELA, Democratic Republic of Congo (14 November, 2012)_Every year around March 3, the villagers of Lukolela were prepared. They did…
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Field research on local issues means always keeping the bigger picture in mind
PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru (13 November, 2012)_Field researchers working in remote, hard-to-reach areas have greater challenges than just navigating treacherous back-country…
5 min readIndonesia lauded for laying REDD groundwork: Next step, true forestry management reform
BOGOR, Indonesia (6 November, 2012)_Though Indonesia gets high marks for addressing governance challenges that affect the forestry sector, many of…
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