Posted on 12 March 2009 by takecover08
Global warming will wreck attempts to save the Amazon rainforest, reports the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
It says a study presented at a major climate science conference in Denmark has predicted that one-third of its trees will be killed by even modest temperature rises.
The research, by some of Britain’s leading experts on climate change, shows that even [...]
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Posted on 11 March 2009 by takecover08
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to 291 square miles (754 square kilometres) between November 2008 and January 2009, reports Mongabay.com.
This was a drop of 70% when compared to the same period 12 months earlier, said Brazil’s Environment Minister Carlos Minc.
A decrease in forest clearing had been expected.
Economic turmoil, which has reduced the availability of [...]
Filed under: carbon, climate change, conservation, deforestation, illegal logging, tropical timber | Tagged: biodiversity, Brazil, climate change, conservation, deforestation, economic downturn, environment, forests, global warming, mongabay.com, monitoring, rainforest, recession, tropical timber | 1 Comment »
Posted on 24 February 2009 by takecover08
Nearly one quarter of Papua New Guinea’s rainforests were damaged or destroyed between 1972 and 2002, Mongabay.com reports.
Researchers, writing in the journal Biotopica, said the results – published in a report last June – show that Papua New Guinea is losing forests at a much faster rate than previously believed.
Over the 30-year study period, 15% [...]
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Posted on 2 February 2009 by takecover08
Cattle ranching is the biggest driver of deforestation in Brazil, says Greenpeace.
In evidence presented at the World Social Forum, hosted by Belem in the heart of the Amazon, the environmental group said it showed that cattle ranching was the biggest driver of Amazon deforestation.
Greenpeace Brazil has produced a series of maps which it said showed [...]
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Posted on 28 January 2009 by takecover08
The Democratic Republic of Congo government has cancelled nearly 60% of timber contracts in the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest, the BBC News website reports.
It follows a six-month review of 156 logging deals aimed at stamping out corruption in the sector and enforcing legal and environmental standards.
At the end of the World Bank-backed process, government ministers [...]
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Posted on 16 January 2009 by takecover08
Will rainforests survive? That was the topic of a debate at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.
Satellite data and other research has revealed that huge tracts of abandoned tropical forests, which were once logged or farmed, are regrowing.
This evidence has prompted a contentious exchange of views and theories among scientists around the [...]
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Posted on 8 October 2008 by takecover08
The Indonesian government and conservation group WWF have announced a commitment to protect the remaining forests and critical ecosystems of Sumatra, the world’s sixth-largest island, which holds some of the most diverse and endangered forests, a press release by the green group anounced.
They wrote:
Sumatra is the only place on Earth where tigers, elephants, orangutans and [...]
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Posted on 16 August 2008 by takecover08
A province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has pledged to stop destruction of its forests and peatlands in an effort to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation by 50% by 2009, Mongabay.com reports.
Riau’s governor announced the temporary ban, which will remain in place until signed into law, at a ceremony in the province’s capital Pekanbaru.
“The [...]
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Posted on 10 August 2008 by takecover08
Mongabay.com reports that Australia will protect its most pristine rainforest after a battle of almost 20 years between conservationists and land owners, according to a statement from the government of Queensland.
The 160,000-hectare Kulla National Park is located in the McIlwraith Ranges on the Cape York peninsula and contains the largest tropical rainforest in Australia.
The [...]
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