Forests

This article originally appeared on WRI’s blog. Este blog se puede leer en español. By Nancy Harris, Octavia Payne and Sarah Mann. With the world’s appetite for chocolate at an all-time high, producers are looking for new places to grow cacao—the raw ingredient in cocoa and chocolate. Some are turning to South America, where satellite images […]

The Amanalco Valle Bravo Basin in central Mexico provides vital water and forest resources to millions of people. But recently the land has suffered due to population pressures and unplanned development. CCMSS has built the capacity of 1,500 families of smallholder farmers for sustainable agriculture and forestry management over 15,200 hectares. They also are piloting […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Samuel McGlennon. BOGOR, Indonesia – Indonesia’s mangroves are a massive storehouse of carbon and a key bargaining chip for the country in the upcoming climate change negotiations in Paris, according to the authors of a new study published in Nature Climate Change. “Indonesian policymakers should see protecting and […]

 

Originally posted on IUCN’s blog. Reposted by the World Resources Institute (WRI). By Aaron Reuben, IUCN, and Kathleen Buckingham, World Resources Institute. Three short stories of landscape restoration in the western United States show that restoration can mean a lot more than just planting trees. Sometimes it means cutting trees, setting fires, and unleashing destructive […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Douglas Sheil, Manuel Boissiere and Guillaume Beaudoin. Late last year, there was publicity about the plight of the San (bushmen) of the Kalahari in Botswana – part of a growing number of ‘conservation refugees’ from across the world who have been forcibly evicted from large areas of land […]