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Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Thomas Hubert. When trying to protect carbon stocks and biodiversity, the expression “to kill two birds with one stone” seems hardly appropriate. And indeed, it seems that the REDD+ stone isn’t hitting the dual targets of storing carbon and protecting wildlife, according to recent research from Indonesia. The new […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Manuel Guariguata, principal scientist at CIFOR. Subsidized by Mother Nature, society has consumed, for various reasons and over centuries, vast amounts of timber extracted from primary tropical forests. The trees were not planted nor tended.  And usually, companies just rented the much needed forestland from the government, at […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Robert V S Redick. REDD+ is at a crossroads in Lao PDR, and needs to “think bigger” to survive. As the anti-deforestation project nears its eighth birthday, that’s the blunt claim from anew study that says tough decisions, choices and tradeoffs must be made to avoid further lost […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Jack Hewson. BOGOR, Indonesia—A 90 kilogram full-grown male orangutan is sitting in your garden, eating mangoes stolen from your mango tree. You are unhappy about this. So how do you get rid of him? According to conservation scientist Erik Meijaard, the best method is to find some friends, […]

Originally posted by The Nature Conservancy. By Justin Adams | TNC Global Solutions | June 4, 2015 Like most fathers of teenage children, I am often accused of being out of touch. While my work takes me to many places, geographic and esoteric, my children do have a point: it is fair to say that […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forest News. By Terry Sunderland, principal scientist at CIFOR. In your best John Cleese voice: “All right… all right… but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order… what have the Romans ever done for us?” Monty Python’s […]