BACKGROUND The Eastern Arc Mountains Conservation Endowment Fund (EAMCEF) is a Trust Fund that was established as a mechanism to provide sustainable financing for effective conservation of biological resources in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. The Eastern Arc Mountains Conservation Endowment Fund was initially conceived as a joint initiative of the Government of the...Read More
As the second most heavily forested Amazonian country, Peru has attracted a steady stream of programmes aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from land-use change, the country’s largest source. Despite these conservation efforts, however, annual forest loss has increased over the past two decades, from about 84,000 hectares in 2001 to a record 200,000 in...Read More
Forests are essential for the health of our planet and its inhabitants. They provide shelter and sustenance to a variety of species, from birds to mammals to insects. But forests also play an important role in sustaining local communities. In addition to providing food and clean water, forests can help protect against climate change, reduce...Read More
CIFOR-ICRAF The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) envision a more equitable world where trees in all landscapes, from drylands to the humid tropics, enhance the environment and well-being for all. CIFOR and ICRAF are non-profit science institutions that build and apply evidence to today’s most pressing challenges, including energy insecurity...Read More
The Africa Regional Chapter of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, GYBN Africa, in partnership with the AWF, is organizing the 2nd African Youth Summit on Biodiversity, aimed at equipping young people in Africa with the necessary knowledge, skills, and confidence to actively participate in the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal GBF and to engage in policy advocacy for biodiversity...Read More
The Earth’s forests have been changing ever since the first tree took root. For 360 million years, trees have grown and been felled through a dynamic mix of hurricanes, fires and natural regeneration. But with the dawn of the 17th century, humans began replacing large swathes of forest with farms and cities. The global pace of deforestation...Read More
University of the Sunshine Coast Professor Jack (Francis) Putz is so buoyed by the finding that he and nine international co-authors have called for all countries with tropical forests—including Australia—to include the simple practice in their national carbon policies. “If we are to scale natural climate solutions at the pace needed to avoid a global climate catastrophe, we...Read More
The vast boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere stretch from Scandinavia through Siberia, Alaska and Canada. They cover a tenth of the world’s land but hold one-third of the land’s carbon, stored mainly in organic-rich soils and in trees. Now, a new study in the journal Science provides further evidence that emissions from wildfires in high northern latitudes...Read More
An international team of researchers led by Prof. MA Keping from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has shown that forests with higher tree species richness tend to have greater arthropod diversity. The researchers showed that higher tree diversity promotes productivity through the suppression of herbivores by enemy arthropods. These...Read More
XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024 FORESTS AND SOCIETY TOWARDS 2050 Stockholm, Sweden; 23-29 June 2024 Congress website: https://www.iufro2024.com/ REMINDER FOR CALL OF ABSTRACTS Dear All, This is a gentle reminder that the Call for Abstracts for the XXVI IUFRO World Congress on the 23-29 of June 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden, is open until 2 June 2023, 23:59...Read More
