Forests

Scientists develop database to help fight forest degradation in Eastern Africa

Scientists at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) have designed a forest observatory database that gives information on activities that contributes to the destructi

Publication Date: 
05/10/2017
Coast Week (Kenya)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania, Deforestation
Forests

Feigning Democracy: Performing Representation in the UN-REDD Funded Nigeria-REDD Programme

educing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation plus the sustainable management of forest and enhancement of carbon stocks (REDD+) is a global climate change mitigation initiative. The United Nations REDD Programme (UN-REDD) is training governments in developing countries, including Nigeria, to implement REDD+. To protect local people, UN-REDD has developed social safeguards including a commitment to strengthen local democracy to prevent an elite capture of REDD+ benefits.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2017
Emmanuel O Nuesiri
Conservation and Society
15
4
384-399
Tags:
REDD, Governance, Nigeria, Forest Management, Africa, Public Participation, Climate Mitigation
Forests

Disempowering democracy: Local representation in community and carbon forestry in Africa

All major agencies intervening in community-based and carbon forestry – such as international development agencies, conservation institutions, and national governments – state that their interventions must engage local participation in decision making. All say they aim to represent local people in the design and implementation of their interventions. In practice, decision-making processes are rarely 'free', barely 'prior' poorly 'informative' and seldom seek any form of democratic 'consent' or even 'consultation'.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2017
Melis Ece, James Murombedzi, Jesse Ribot
Conservation and Society
15
4
357-370
Tags:
Forests, Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda, REDD, Forest Management, Community Forest Management (CFM), Forest Policy
Forests

Brazil to reinstate protection for Amazon reserve

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil will reinstate a mining ban in a vast area of the Amazon rainforest, the government announced on Monday, in an about-face that is a victory for environmentalists who fea

Publication Date: 
26/09/2017
Reuters
Tags:
Forests, Amazon, Forest Conservation, Brazil, Forest Management, Biodiversity, Deforestation
Forests

Natura 2000 and forests: assessing the state of implementation and effectiveness

Forests are of crucial importance for Natura 2000, the EU-wide ecological network of protected areas. Nearly 25% of the total forest area in the EU is part of the network, but knowledge about how Natura 2000 is implemented in forests, and its effects on biodiversity, forest management and other land uses across the EU is fragmented.

Publication Date: 
21/09/2017
Metodi Sotirov
European Forest Institute
Tags:
Forests, Biodiversity, Europe, European Union (EU), Forest Management, Protected Area Conservation, Biodiversity Conservation, Ecosystems
Forests

Amazonian locals key to saving 'lungs of the planet' says study

- Locals are more effective than governments in protecting the world's largest rainforest, a study said on Tuesday, amid efforts to crackdown on soaring illegal deforestation.

Publication Date: 
13/09/2017
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Amazon, Brazil, Peru, Deforestation, FAO
Forests

Bunge, partners launch Brazil database to combat deforestation

Bunge Inc and partners on Tuesday launched an online database aimed at helping companies make investment and purchasing decisions that discourage farmers from cutting down trees for arable land.

Publication Date: 
13/09/2017
Reuters
Tags:
Forests, Deforestation, Brazil, Farmers, Trees, Forest Management
Forests

Top-notch reserve in Amazon brings deforestation to zero

The Juma Sustainable Development Reserve (RDS), in the northern state of Amazonas, is regarded as a model both in the country and across the world.

Publication Date: 
11/09/2017
Big News Network
Tags:
Forests, Amazon, Deforestation, REDD, Forest Management
Forests

Gambia: Tumani Tenda Community Embarks On Indigenous Tree Planting

The community of Tumani Tenda village in the West Coast Region in collaboration with All Gambia Forestry Platform, and representative from KAMFORA, Department of Forestry Tuesday embarked on a mass

Publication Date: 
07/09/2017
All Africa
Tags:
Forests, Afforestation, Gambia, Forest Management, Trees, Africa
Forests

Brazil's agents of the Amazon fighting loggers, fires to stop deforestation

APUI, Brazil (Reuters) - The small town of Apui sits at the new frontline of Brazil's fight against advancing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, where vast forest fires belch jet black smoke v

Publication Date: 
23/08/2017
Reuters
Tags:
Forests, Deforestation, Brazil, Forest Fires, Amazon, Forest Management

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