Forests

Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions

Converting forests into farms is not economically viable except in selected regions, says a global study.

Publication Date: 
18/08/2017
Eco Business
Tags:
Forests, Deforestation, Agriculture, Global, Forest Management, Brazil, Guinea, Thailand
Forests

One Billion Trees Planted in Pakistan's NW Province

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's northwestern province, Khyber Pakhtunkhaw (KPK), has planted an unprecedented 1 billion trees in just more than two years and surpassed an international commitment of restori

Publication Date: 
14/08/2017
Big News Network
Tags:
Forests, Pakistan, Afforestation, South Asia, Forest Management
Forests

Portugal asks for help from Europe to fight fires

LISBON (Reuters) - More than 3,000 firemen struggled to put out forest fires across Portugal on Sunday, after the country requested assistance from Europe to fight blazes that threaten to spread wi

Publication Date: 
14/08/2017
Reuters
Tags:
Forests, Forest Fires, Portugal, Forest Management, European Union (EU)
Forests

Government, UNDP partner on trees

GOVERNMENT in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is undertaking a five-year forest regeneration project covering 15,000 hectares in Serenje and Chitambo districts in C

Publication Date: 
08/08/2017
Daily Mail (Zambia)
Tags:
Forests, Trees, UNDP, Zambia, Forest Management, Africa
Climate Change

Feasibility of community management of Miombo woodlands for Carbon Project in southern highlands of Tanzania

In response to the pressing global challenges of climate change, community based management of miombo woodlands in Tanzania is promoted for carbon credit project development. However, evidence on its feasibility is scanty and questionable. This study examined the economic feasibility of carbon credit project development in community based forest management (CBFM) using four similar miombo woodlands from Southern highlands. The analysis was based on 144 sample plots from managed woodlands and 100 plots from business as usual (BAU) (open access).

Publication Date: 
07/08/2017
Z. J. Lupala, L. P. Lusambo, Y. M. Ngaga
International Journal of Ecology
1-10
Tags:
Forests, Tanzania, Climate Change, Carbon Sequestration, Ecosystem Services, Africa, Forest Management, Deforestation
Forests

Changes needed to the legal framework governing Community Forest Management Agreements

After decades of industrial logging and forest mismanagement, the Liberian government has pledged that it will now only issue forest licenses to the communities who own the forest. This welcome change could be undermined however, by weaknesses in the country’s laws that govern how community forest licenses are awarded and managed.

Publication Date: 
04/08/2017
Global Witness
Tags:
Community Forest Management (CFM), Liberia, Africa, Forest Management, Forest Products, Forest Policy
Forests

Frame forest fire policy in three months: Green Tribunal to govt

The tribunal has also asked the government to ensure participation and cooperation of the local communities and prepare the Forest Fire Management Plan in partnership with the village-level panchay

Publication Date: 
04/08/2017
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forest Fires, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Forest Management, Forest Policy, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Forests
Forests

Voluntary guidelines on National Forest Monitoring

FAO has developed new guidelines aimed at helping countries develop strong National Forest Monitoring Systems, which are key to measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To fulfil their pledges under the Paris Climate Agreement and Agenda 2030 countries are expected to collect more detailed forestry data.

Publication Date: 
26/07/2017
FAO
Tags:
Forest Resources, Forest Management, Forests, Biodiversity Conservation, Climate Impacts, Ecosystem Services
Forests

Malawi Aims to Restore Trees and Land Covering Half the Country By 2030

Lilongwe — Malawi plans to spend about $385 million by 2030 to plant trees and restore other degraded land, in an effort to reverse rampant forest losses in the country, forestry officials said thi

Publication Date: 
03/07/2017
All Africa
Tags:
Forests, Trees, Malawi, Forest Management, Land Degradation, Africa, Afforestation
Climate Change

Facilitating REDD+ benefit sharing in Peru

The project "Facilitating REDD+ benefit sharing in Peru" (2013-2016) aimed to implement early REDD+ actions enabled by appropriate, efficient and equitable benefit-sharing mechanisms that are sufficiently robust to be mainstreamed into long-term national and international REDD+ frameworks.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2017
Karen Podvin, Milagros Sandoval, Cecilia Gutiérrez, Claudio Schneider
IUCN
Tags:
REDD, Benefit Sharing, Peru, Climate Change, Forests, Forest Management

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