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Scientists find surprising biodiversity between forests

2014-05-20 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: The Theory of Island Biogeography, coined by Robert MacArthur and E.O. Wilson, helps describe why species are distributed as they are. The larger and closer an island is to another (or to the mainland), the more biodiverse it should be. This can be used to describe actual islands in the ocean, like the Galapagos, or even mountaintops, like the Madrean Sky Islands in southern Arizona and New Mexico. In human-dominated countryside areas, forests are often fragmented and scattered among a matrix...

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New tech, better map on tap to protect Indonesian forests

2014-05-20 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: In Indonesia, a new tool that offers the best view yet of ongoing deforestation may soon be accompanied by a new map to translate that data to action. Global Forest Watch (GFW), unveiled earlier this year, is an online platform that uses satellite imagery, open data and crowdsourcing, enables users to monitor forests and track deforestation anywhere in the world in near-real time. An initiative of the Washington, D.C.-based World Resources Institute, GFW addresses the widespread problem of inconsistent...

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City Forests Ltd Of Dunedin, New Zealand, Implements Trimble's Enterprise Forest Management Software

2014-05-14 11:32:11| publicworks Home Page

Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) announced today that its Enterprise Forest Management™ software has been implemented by City Forests Ltd, based in Dunedin, New Zealand

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Brazil beef tax could spare forests

2014-05-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News: Scientists have come up with a new prescription to address the Amazon rainforests health problems: Reduce deforestation more efficiently by taxing free-range beef. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and international colleagues from Australia and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, make their case in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They argue that by taxing cattle on conventional pasture and by subsidizing semi-intensive...

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