Trees

This was revealed here recently by Mr Simon Msoka, an official of the Kilimanjaro Regional Secretariat, during a land use and climate smart agriculture workshop.

Publication Date:

02/01/2018

Source: Daily News (Tanzania)

Tags:

Forests, Afforestation, Tanzania, Trees, Africa

Forests

The business of planting trees: a growing investment opportunity

In recent years, hundreds of companies have entered the restoration industry. They represent a wide range of business models that deliver financial returns for investors while restoring forests and agricultural lands. This report profiles 14 businesses that are part of an emerging restoration economy.

Publication Date:

01/01/2018

Author(s): Sofia Faruqi, Andrew Wu, Andrés Anchondo Ortega, Alan Batista, Eriks Brolis

Source: World Resources Institute

Tags:

Trees, Forests, Industry, India, Global, Finance

Biodiversity

Endemic trees in a tropical biodiversity hotspot imperilled by an invasive tree

Non-native plants invade some tropical forests but there are few long-term studies of these invasions, and the consequences for plant richness and diversity are unclear. Repeated measurements of permanent plots in tropical montane rain forests in the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park in Jamaica over 24 to 40 years coincided with invasion by a non-native tree, Pittosporum undulatum.

Publication Date:

01/01/2018

Author(s): Peter J. Bellingham, Edmund V.J. Tanner, Patrick H. Martin & et al

Source: Biological Conservation

Vol:

217

pp:

47-53

Tags:

Biodiversity Hotspots, Trees, Invasive Alien Species, Tropical Forests, Jamaica

Climate Change

Dendrogeomorphic potential of the Himalaya – case studies of process dating of natural hazards in Kullu valley, Himachal Pradesh

Trees impacted by the forces of natural processes such as flash floods, snow avalanches, landslides, rockfalls or earthquakes, record these events and exhibit growth disturbances in their growth-ring series. As a consequence, these disturbances provide an excellent signal for the spatio-temporal reconstruction of past natural hazard activity and a means to date and document past disasters.

Original Source

Publication Date:

25/12/2017

Author(s): Amalava Bhattacharyya, Markus Stoffel, Mayank Shekhar & et al

Source: Current Science

Vol:

113

Issue:

12

pp:

2317-2324

Tags:

Himalaya, Natural Disasters, Kulu (D), Himachal Pradesh, Trees, Climate Change, Climate Science, Avalanches, Floods, Deforestation

Forests

Uganda: 3,000 Residents Defy NFA Directive to Vacate Forest

Jinja — More than 3,000 residents living in Butagaya Forest Reserve in Jinja District have defied a directive by the National Forestry Authority (NFA) to vacate, arguing that they have not been giv

Publication Date:

12/12/2017

Source: All Africa

Tags:

Forests, Forest Encroachments, Uganda, Trees, Deforestation, Africa

Forests