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1 December 2009
Tribes in remote Venezuela face the challenges of a thriving bush-meat trade, incursions by gold miners and government control over their land. [more...]
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1 December 2009
A new handbook lays out the methodology for cultural mapping, providing indigenous groups with a powerful tool for defending their land and culture, while enabling them to benefit from some 21st century advancements. Cultural mapping may also facilitate indigenous efforts to win recognition and compensation under a proposed scheme to mitigate climate change through forest conservation. [more...]
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1 December 2009
While nations bicker over the size of emissions cuts and climate funds, saving forests has turned out to be among the least contentious issues in U.N. climate talks and has achieved the most progress. [more...]
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30 November 2009
Residents of Mau forest in Kenya are being evicted over government claims that illegal settlement and deforestation have already destroyed a quarter of the forest. [more...]
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30 November 2009
Criminal gangs are stripping Madagascar's poorly-protected national parks every day of precious hardwood worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, two environmental campaign groups have said. [more...]
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30 November 2009
An Australian project tapping Aborigines' knowledge to avert devastating wildfires that stoke climate change is the world's best example of linking indigenous peoples to carbon markets, the U.N. University said. [more...]
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27 November 2009
A tree introduced to Kenya to combat desertification has itself become a problem, invading farmland and damaging farmers' livelihoods. Prosopis juliflora, known as the 'devil tree' in some areas, was introduced from Latin America to semi-arid districts of Kenya by nongovernmental organisations in the 1980s. [more...]
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27 November 2009
Wagons brimming with logs accumulate in the Siberian railway station of Dalnerechensk, more than 8,000km (4,971 miles) east of Moscow. They are waiting to cross the nearby Chinese border. [more...]
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27 November 2009
Speaking before Amazon summit, Lula calls on industrialised countries to provide financial help to halt deforestation. [more...]
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26 November 2009
Australia offset rising emissions from cars and power stations by reducing their deforestation, in Queensland and New South Wales in particular. In fact, even before signing in Kyoto, Australia had cut back deforestation emissions from 131m tonnes in 1990 to 75m tonnes. It was, according to an analysis carried out by the Sustainability Council of New Zealand, "the equivalent of Australia starting with an 11% discount on its Kyoto target." [more...]
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26 November 2009
Logging in Indonesia can be a murky business involving navigating government bureaucracy to get permits and land concessions in one of the world's most corrupt countries, to winning the hearts and minds of villagers living near the rainforests. [more...]
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26 November 2009
Millions of trees should be planted to cover an extra 4% of the UK in woodland in order to tackle climate change, the Forestry Commission has recommended. [more...]
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25 November 2009
Hundreds of successful farmers are replanting trees as part of an ambitious initiative to reduce deforestation. Their goal - to set aside one-third of their farms for native vegetation - is revolutionary in a region long resistant to environmental controls. [more...]
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25 November 2009
The Kenyan government has begun forcibly evicting thousands of people in an attempt to halt environmental degradation in the Mau Forest, one of the nation’s most critical ecosystems. [more...]
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25 November 2009
Amid the torrent of bad environmental news in recent years, the story of Amur tigers in Russia offered a flicker of optimism. Nearly extinct half a century ago, the tigers rebounded when the government imposed protections, and their numbers remained more or less stable for much of the last decade. But new data suggest that Russia’s tiger population is once again declining. [more...]
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24 November 2009
A World Bank study that cited Indonesia as the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases was wrong, an Indonesian report said, although it did not provide its own ranking. Indonesia is seen as a key player in forthcoming international climate talks in Copenhagen because its greenhouse gas emissions from peat bogs and deforestation are a major contributor to global warming. [more...]
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24 November 2009
Millions of charity dollars are flowing into water pumps driven by children's roundabouts, but is it money down the drain? [more...]
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24 November 2009
Working schemes for REDD, which stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation and allows the sale of credits to offset carbon pollution elsewhere, are few and far between now. But a climate deal including REDD could be a potent tool to cut deforestation, which globally accounts for up to 20 percent of carbon emissions -- more than all the world's cars, ships and planes combined. [more...]
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21 November 2009
Africa's freshwater resources are under serious threat from climate change and urgent adaptation measures are needed, says a study. [more...]
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21 November 2009
Even to an untrained eye, the rolling hills of Mbulu district in northern Tanzania are alarmingly bare. Thatched mud and timber houses stand out in a countryside just peppered with trees. Land is scarce here, with farmers, pastoralists (livestock herders) and hunters all vying to survive. The result is pillage. A recent government report documents five types of degradation: soil; trees; shrubs; grasslands and water sources. [more...]
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last updated: Monday, March 9, 2009