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Bolivian indigenous group wins big prize for reducing deforestation
2015-12-12 08:03:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Tacana have legally secured legal rights to more than 389,000 hectares of their traditional land in the mega-biodiverse Madidi region of northwestern Bolivia. Their sustainable land-management strategies have resulted in four times less deforestation than in areas outside their bounds. This year's Equator Prizes were awarded to just 21 of 1,461 nominations, for efforts to prevent deforestation. The Tacana, a Bolivian indigenous group, have spent years developing sustainable land-use...
COP21: New satellite imaging tracks REDD+ deforestation tree-by-tree
2015-12-11 07:05:50| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Critics have long argued that the inability of satellites to track deforestation with precision created a loophole that could allow tropical countries to cheat regarding their annual deforestation rates. Past satellite imaging systems could not resolve objects smaller than 500 meters (1,640 feet) across. A new system developed by Alessandro Baccini and his Woods Hole, Massachusetts, research team can see objects just 30 meters (98 feet) across. Satellite imaging, combined with imaging from...
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Big business: are deforestation goals at risk failing?
2015-12-07 15:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Paris climate talks have opened with a promise to the world: to secure a historic agreement between nations to bring the runaway train of global warming to a halt. The worlds forests play a key role in fulfilling this promise. When we keep forests standing, we have an invaluable asset in our fight against climate change. As writer Sam Knight has already highlighted in the Guardian: There are three trillion trees on Earth and they are perfectly made to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere....
Amazon deforestation jumps in Brazil
2015-11-27 23:04:19| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Deforestation jumped 16 percent in the Brazilian Amazon for the year ended July 31, 2015, but still remained well below historical levels. Forest loss amounted to 5,831 square kilometers, an area half the size of Los Angeles. The rise, which was announced just ahead of the opening of U.N. climate talks in Paris, had been widely anticipated based on data from short-term satellite-based monitoring systems. Deforestation jumped 16 percent in the Brazilian Amazon to 5,831 square kilometers for...
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Amazon deforestation leaps 16 percent in 2015
2015-11-27 22:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Illegal logging and clearing of Brazil's Amazon rainforest increased 16 percent in the last year, the government said, in a setback to the aim of stopping destruction of the world's greatest forest by 2030. The area of deforestation grew to 2,251 square miles (5,830 square kilometers) between July 2014 and August 2015, the environment ministry said. The biggest increases were in the states of Amazonas, with a 54 percent rise, Rondonia with 41 percent and Mato Grosso with 40 percent, the ministry...
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