Conversation: While hugging a tree sounds relaxing, its harder than you might think - especially when the tree is 20 storeys high and 3 metres wide, its hot as hell, and youre swatting away swarms of sweat bugs.
But theres a hard-headed reason behind that tree-hugging work: you cant properly manage what you dont measure.
Lack of reliable information about so much of the worlds forests is part of why were still losing forests so fast. Deforestation contributes an estimated 10-15% of all human-caused...