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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.
Created a Post in Forestry
Brazil’s conservation reform and the reduction of deforestation in Amazonia
New portal tracks policies and trends impacting forests in Central Africa
Forest care, interconnectivity and maintenance of ecological resources among the Manobo-Matigsalug people of the Southern Philippines
New laws could help prevent UK consumers from buying food grown on rainforest land that has been illegally logged. The change will be included in a new Environment Bill that MPs will discuss. The aim is to stop British consumers playing an inadvertent role in an environmental crime through the goods in their supermarket basket. The key commodities most grown on land that is illegally cleared are cocoa, soya, palm oil, beef and leather, rubber, timber, and pulp and paper.
Trading connectivity improvement for area loss in patch-based biodiversity reserve networks
Between ecological theory and planning practice: (Re-) Connecting forest patches for the wildcat in Lower Saxony, Germany interesting case study of a developed country
Divergent socioeconomic-ecological outcomes of China’s conversion of cropland to forest program in the subtropical mountainous area and the semi-arid Loess Plateau
Ecosystem services from mountain forests: Local communities’ views in Kibira National Park, Burundi
To protect the world’s invaluable forests, we need greater engagement and collaboration between companies throughout supply chains, that source and produce commodities in high-risk regions. CDP calls on their supply chain forests member to pursue collaborative projects to tackle deforestation.
Where and when does forest monitoring inform problem solving? Learn from the experiences of Vietnam, Cameroon, and Brazil.