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Forests are a source of food, medicine and fuel. In addition to helping to respond to climate change and protect soils and water, they hold more than three-quarters of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity, provide many products and services that contribute to socio-economic development and are particularly important for hundreds of millions of people in rural areas, including many of the world’s poorest.
Yet, deforestation and forest degradation continue to take place at alarming rates, which contributes significantly to the ongoing loss of biodiversity. Forests are also particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts such as insect outbreaks, fires, strong winds, droughts, and pathogen attacks.
There are ways, however, to manage the world’s forest ecosystems that will ensure the conservation and sustainable use of their biodiversity. This requires effective governance, integrated policies, land-tenure security, respect for the rights and knowledge of local communities and indigenous peoples, and enhanced capacity for monitoring of biodiversity outcomes. It also requires innovative financing modalities.
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A Lesson of Sustainability Given by The Tropical Modernism in Kinshasa: The BCB Headquarters by Maurice Houyoux
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Exciting new position with Conservation International in Cambodia -- Landscape Technical Manager to support the conservation and sustainable management of the Central Cardamoms Mountain National Park (CCMNP) and the broader landscape
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There’s been a resurgence in the old-fashioned technique of burning wood to produce energy. [But] the idea that setting trees on fire could be carbon-neutral sounds even odder to experts who know that biomass emits more carbon than coal at the smokestack, plus the carbon released by logging, processing logs into vitamin-sized pellets and transporting them overseas. And solar panels can produce 100 times as much power per acre as biomass.
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Created a Post in Climate Change, Forestry, Natural Capital
An environmental podcast with a punny title? Yes, please!
ICYMI - Webinar recording and new FAO report out on the institutionalisation of forest data and establishing legal frameworks for sustainable forest monitoring in REDD+ countries
A Review of Geospatial Information of Carbon Stocks for Forestry Management, Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning: A Case Study of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
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New NASA maps will help Liberia chart course for a sustainable future
Created an Event in Natural Capital, Agriculture, Forestry