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In Kenyas Mountain Forests, A New Path to Conservation
2015-02-26 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Here is a good news story from Africa. A story about how conservationists and forest managers are putting local communities at the heart of efforts to protect forests on critical upland watersheds. In Kenya, local famers are replacing state officials and forest wardens in the battle against a corrupt system intent on ransacking natural resources that once reached all the way to the presidents office. Can local control work where the state failed? Will the countrys critical water towers be...
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The wealth of forests
2015-02-23 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: The day I first set foot in a tropical rainforest, in Malaysia in the early 1980s, I experienced something profound. From the echoes of gibbons calling from the canopy in the early morning mist to the iridescent flash of a bird in a beam of sunlight, rainforests are a sensory delight as well as a marvel to anyone's scientific curiosity. As I subsequently watched these forests dwindle and, in some cases, vanish, I have felt an equally profound sense of loss and a nagging guilt that I was somehow...
Assessing carbon stock value of forests is tricky business, study finds
2015-02-20 00:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: With financial incentives encouraging maintenance of carbon stocks and the increased popularity of carbon trading between countries, a forest has become economically a lot more than a clump of trees that supplements livelihoods. A forest now has an intrinsic value by just existing, a value that can be measured in economic terms. A study recently published in Forest Ecology and Management examines the carbon stock value of forests in Guyana, finding dramatic differences between different kinds of...
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How a small band of activists saved tropical forests by turning around 'Big Doughnut'
2015-02-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Picture a doughnut. That's small and easy, right? Now picture palm oil. Drawing a blank? That's because palm oil, a prized vegetable oil, is relatively unknown in America. But its market is huge because it's used in many different products like instant noodles, shampoo and, yes, doughnuts. It's so big that palm oil is connected to the destruction of the Earth's tropical forests on a scale that the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has called "an ecological disaster."...
Southern forests' ability to suck carbon from the air may be slowing
2015-02-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: When U.S. Forest Service scientist David Wear hikes the trails crisscrossing the Appalachian Mountains, he pauses to revel not only in the beauty and solitude, but to consider the remarkable role that the forest around him plays in the world's environment. "A walk in the woods is as much recreation as intellectual stimulation for me," Wear said. "I see questions about whats happening in the changing dynamics of the forests." One of those questions: How are today's forests doing when it comes...
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