Tag: Deforestation - Page 4
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Rare Plants, Heritage Trees Growing Anew in Armenia
Rare and endangered tree species, including heritage fruit trees with 3,000 years of cultivated history, are being rejuvenated thanks to the Armenia Tree Project.
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Oka! Movie: Endangered Music and People in the Heart of the Congo Forest (Interview)
Deep in the forests of central Africa live people who rely on those forests for survival. It is not a game or a TV reality show, and the jungle is not territory to be feared and overcome. Filmmaker
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Amazon Drought Released 1.8 Billion Tons of CO2 in 2010
Last year, the Amazon rainforest experienced the worst drought on record, reducing normally flowing rivers to sun-baked stretches of dried mud and pushing the fragile ecosystem to the brink. And even more troubling than the
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Remembering Wangari Maathai: People Should Be "Active Participants" in Environmental Restoration
When I interviewed Wangari Maathai in July 2004, I had no idea she would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize just a few months later. By the time the award was announced, I had booked tickets from
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Deforestation Making Somalia Famine Worse, Forestry Experts Say
Some background on one factor contributing to the severity of the famine in the Horn of Africa, from the Center for International Forestry Research: Deforestation
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Community-Managed Forests Preserve More Trees Than Government Protected Areas, Study Says
Circling back on an issue TreeHugger wrote about in 2009, with a new study backing up the idea that community-managed forests preserve them better than government-run protected areas. A new study done by the Center for International Forestry Research,
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Trouble In Lemur Land: New Film Documents the Plight of Endangered Silky Sifakas (Video)
If you've got about an hour to spare and like any of all of the following, nature documentaries, Madagascar, lemurs, learning more about illegal logging, or conservation, then spend it watching primatologist Erik Patel's new(ish) film Trouble in Lemur
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Congo Seeks $2.6 Billion To Replant Its Forests
Brazil and Indonesia get most of the public attention when it comes to deforestation, but the issue is also huge in parts of Africa. Now the Republic of the Congo (not to be confused with its much larger neighbor, the Democratic
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WWF Responds to Global Witness' "Pandering to the Loggers" Report
Global Witness released a report yesterday claiming that WWF's partnerships with logging companies, created to bring sustainability to the global timber industry, have instead had the opposite effect and facilitated illegal logging
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Is WWF Selling Out Endangered Forests to Corporations?
The World Wide Fund for Nature established the Global Forest and Trade Network 20 years ago to increase and ensure sustainability in the global timber trade. But it's doing almost the
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How Supermarkets Are Shaping Brazil's Savannah (Infographic)
We all know about Brazil's rainforests and how rapidly they're disappearing to serve every need from toilet paper to feed for pigs. However, we don't necessarily know much about Brazil's Cerrado Savannah, which is under just
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Cargill Sets Sustainable Goals for Palm Oil, But Are They Too Little, Too Late?
Agribusiness giant Cargill has announced plans to offer only sustainably-certified palm oil by 2015 for certain countries, including the U.S., and by 2020 worldwide. On the surface, that sounds like a positive step forward,
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Forests Soak Up Tons Of Fossil Fuel Emissions, But Deforestation Releases Even More Than Thought
Another study showing us how valuable forests are (among their myriad other values) for soaking up carbon emissions: According to the new research in Science the world's forests absorb 1.1 billion tons of carbon each
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Vietnam Era Weapon Being Used to Clear the Amazon
Agent Orange is one of the most devastating weapons of modern warfare, a chemical which killed or injured an estimated 400,000 people during the Vietnam War -- and now it's being used against the Amazon rainforest. According to
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Profit for Good: Carbon Credits Bring Clean Water to Rural Kenya
I spent part of last month walking from home to home in Kagamega, Kenya, a mostly-rural region known for one of the last remaining tracts of the Congolese forest belt. It is not dissimilar to so much of the developing world,
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Donald Trump's Scottish Golf Course Becomes Mini-Golf
The Donald is having a bad month. First his presidential campaign flopped and now his Scottish golf course development has too.
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Overwhelming Majority of Brazilians Want Strong Forest Protections
As battles both political and literal over deforestation in Brazil continue, with six activists killed in the past month, WWF has some hopeful stats about how Brazilians
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Mapping Central Park and All its Trees
Calling all New Yorkers. If you love trees and Central Park (and who wouldn't?) have we got a deal for you. Called "Central Park Entire: The Definitive Illustrated Folding Map", it's a map that shows all 19,933 trees in the
