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The world’s forests will collapse if we don’t learn to say ‘no’

Posted by hughes on Monday, 22 February 2016 in Forestry

Author Bill Lawrence - Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University An alarming new study has shown that the world’s forests are not only disappearing rapidly, but that areas of “core forest” — remote interior areas critical for disturbance-sen...

ENDANGERED SPECIES PAY THE PRICE OF PALM OIL’S EXPANSION

Posted by jonehopp on Friday, 05 December 2014 in Forestry

There have been a number of reports in recent months shedding light on the serious threat industrial agribusiness plantations can pose to the habitat of large mammals. Be this the gorilla, the chimpanzee, the forest elephant or numerous others. Companies may p...

Your Old Cell Phone Can Help Fight Rainforest Poachers

Posted by Calle on Tuesday, 24 June 2014 in Clean Technology

A technology that uses discarded mobile phones to create a real-time alert system against logging and poaching will soon be deployed in the endangered rainforests of Central Africa. Rainforest Connection (RFCx), a San Francisco-based non-profit startup, is partnering with the Zoological Society...

A Plan to End Deforestation by 2020

Posted by amir on Friday, 18 January 2013 in Forestry

Greenpeace reiterated its call for an end to deforestation in Brazil by 2015 and globally by 2020 during its launch of an awareness-raising expedition down the Amazon River aboard the Rainbow Warrior. Brazil is now the sixth largest economy in the world, the largest meat exporter and second largest...

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Sustainable Forests Working Worldwide

Posted by grant on Friday, 10 June 2011 in Forestry

A study of the world’s forests has found a 50 per cent rise in sustainably managed tropical woodlands since 2005, helped by rising demand in developed countries for certified wood and UN programmes to reduce carbon emissions. The International Tropical Timber Organisation, an intergovernmen...