Category Archives: Forests
Prince Rallies The City to Save Rainforests
The Prince of Wales has called upon hard-nosed city financiers to invest in Rainforests. Top city officials including Robert Swannell, Vice President of Citi Europe and Chris Gibson-Smith, chairman of the London Stock Exchange are among invitees to Mansion House … Continue reading
Extinction Threat for Primates at Crisis Point
The IUCN has highlighted the plight of the world’s primates in a comprehensive review of all 634 known species. The IUCN is the world’s leading conservation body, funding, equipping and managing conservation scientists and projects, as well as leading on … Continue reading
Satellite Policing to Save Rainforest
£108m is to be invested by Britain and Norway in a scheme said to provide a viable alternative to logging in the African Congo basin. The Congo rainforest is roughly twice the size of France, but is being deforested at … Continue reading
UNFF Web Forum – Forests and Biodiversity Conservation
The United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) is holding a web-forum on “Forests and Biodiversity Conservation, including protected areas”. Take part online until 30 June. Dialogue and inputs fo the forum will be used to inform one of the themes … Continue reading
Payments for Environmental Services: an Alternative to Logging in Indonesia?
A new report published in Ecological Economics suggests that payments for environmental services (PES), unless properly targeted, are ineffective at curbing forest loss. The report suggests that PES schemes will put some communities inhabiting tropical forests in a better ‘bargaining’ … Continue reading
Debate Rages on How Best to Manage Tropical Forests
At the UN climate conference in Bali in December last year, the international community accepted the need to build forest protection into the successor to the Kyoto Protocol. However, how forests will be protected was not decided and is now … Continue reading
Forest Now Decleration
Forests Now is a campaign to stop deforestation, because tropical forest ecosystems act as carbon sinks and provide ecosystems services that every human being depends on. Forests in the developing world support the livelihood of 1.4 billion people, but the … Continue reading
Future of Ireland’s Forests
How can Ireland’s forests promote its national heritage? Woodlands of Ireland is conducting a review of the Heritage Council’s forestry policy. The review group is requesting input from experts about a wide range of issues relating to forestry, including links … Continue reading