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Protected areas: biodiversity troves and carbon sinks under one canopy?
BOGOR, Indonesia—When biologists see a forest, they may think of the number of species it could support. When climatologists see…
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Best of 2014: In Central Africa, policymakers’ knowledge of climate change found wanting
BOGOR, Indonesia—In one of Forests News’ most unsettling stories of 2014, a study showed that policymakers working on forests and…
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Best of 2014: ‘There will be no birds or monkeys because the forest will be gone’
BOGOR, Indonesia—When it comes to tropical forest landscapes, children are often seen but not heard. A research paper published in…
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Best of 2014: For REDD+, sky-high expectations meet on-the-ground realities
BOGOR, Indonesia— The idea of paying people in developing tropical countries to protect their forests, generating carbon credits, and selling…
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How are trees good for us? ‘Sentinels’ may hold the answer
NAIROBI, Kenya—It’s a unique, massive—and massively ambitious—research initiative, spanning nine landscapes across 20 countries on three continents. It involves scores…
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In national REDD+ policy networks, a bit of conflict is not a bad thing
BOGOR, Indonesia—A balance between cooperation and conflict is one recipe for success in REDD+ moving forward, according to a global…
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Who’s actually implementing landscape approaches? Study seeks to find out
LIMA, Peru—Although land managers and policy makers increasingly talk about the use of landscapes for conserving biodiversity, and for reducing…
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To restore mangrove forests, it’s all in the planning
LIMA, Peru—Conservation and restoration of the world’s coastal wetlands and mangroves—threatened by excavation and drainage for shrimp farms and development—can…
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REDD+ on the ground: In Tanzania, funding and enthusiasm ‘faded away’
BOGOR, Indonesia—Jane Goodall is known worldwide for her decades of work with chimpanzees in the Gombe forest of Western Tanzania.…
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To include local people in REDD+ activities, four conditions required, study finds
BOGOR, Indonesia—This month in Lima, experts are debating how to safeguard the rights of local communities in global forest-carbon initiatives.…
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Strong commitments, then silence from key player in REDD+ policy arena
BOGOR, Indonesia—On the REDD+ stage, one actor speaks prominently under the lights—but remains largely invisible backstage when the decisions are…
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REDD+ on the ground: Unintended consequences in ‘a microcosm of the Amazon’
BOGOR, Indonesia—When Brazilian researcher Maria Fernanda Gebara thinks of her first visit to the Amazon municipality São Félix do Xingu…
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REDD+ on the ground: For one initiative in Indonesia, politics in the peatlands
BOGOR, Indonesia—It’s a cautionary tale. The experience of a highly politicized carbon emissions reduction initiative in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province…
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REDD+ on the ground: New book offers insights, lessons from across the tropics
BOGOR, Indonesia—From the Amazon forests of Peru and Brazil, to the Congo Basin and Tanzania, to Vietnam and Indonesian Borneo,…
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Carbon 101: Faced with teaching a complex topic, scientists get creative
BOGOR, Indonesia—It’s expected to be a major topic at the UN climate talks in Lima: how to ensure that climate…
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