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Yellow Meranti

The Yellow Meranti tree species, scientifically known as Shorea faguetiana, is a part of the Dipterocarpaceae family. These species are native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, primarily found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. The average height of these trees ranges from 65 to 130 feet, with a trunk diameter of 3 to 6 feet. The species are widely distributed across their native…

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Africa’s rainforests are different. Why it matters that they’re protected.

Corinne Staley/Flickr Martin Sullivan, University of Leeds; Oliver Phillips, University of Leeds, and Simon Lewis, UCL Around 2 million km² of Africa is covered by tropical rainforests. They are second only in extent to those in Amazonia, which cover around 6 million km². Rainforests are home to vast numbers of species. For example, the world’s tropical rainforests are estimated to be home to at…

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BGCI | BGCI Launches the State of the World's Trees Report

BGCI | BGCI Launches the State of the World’s Trees Report

A third of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction. In Europe, 58% of native European trees are threatened with extinction in the wild. Whitebeams and Rowan (Sorbus genus) are the most threatened species of trees in Europe. Brazil, which has some of the most biodiverse forests in the world, has the highest number of tree species (8,847) and also the most threatened tree species (1,788). Read…

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NC | Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity

NC | Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity

“Ambitious policies that prioritize the retention of forest integrity, especially in the most intact areas, are now urgently needed alongside current efforts aimed at halting deforestation and restoring the integrity of forests globally.” Nature Communications, volume 11, Article number: 5978 (2020)

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HRW | US Has a Chance to Protect Forests Worldwide

The bill would be a major step in the right direction for climate action by requiring businesses to ensure their operations do not fuel the destruction of crucial ecosystems. It is also a major step in protecting US consumers from unwittingly contributing to human rights abuses and environmental degradation through their shopping bags. The Biden administration should build support for it. read…

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Guardian | Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the climate crisis they are fuelling

Guardian | Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the climate crisis they are fuelling

“in some parts of the world, population growth is a major driver of particular kinds of ecological damage, such as the expansion of small-scale agriculture into rainforests, the bushmeat trade and local pressure on water and land for housing” read more here

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Grist | How to stop runaway deforestation? Look at Indonesia.

Grist | How to stop runaway deforestation? Look at Indonesia.

“This is the fourth straight year that palm-oil deforestation has been at a fraction of historic levels, and trending down” read more here

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ScienceDaily | Tropical forest loss is increased by large-scale land acquisitions

ScienceDaily | Tropical forest loss is increased by large-scale land acquisitions

An international group of researchers led by the University of Delaware’s Kyle Davis has recently published a study in Nature Geoscience to see which types of large-scale land investments may be associated with increases in tropical deforestation. They found that investment types focusing on establishing new tree plantations — where an area is cleared of existing trees and planted with a single…

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FEE | Restoration concessions: a second lease on life for beleaguered tropical forests?

FEE | Restoration concessions: a second lease on life for beleaguered tropical forests?

Logging has depleted timber resources across a considerable portion of the world’s tropical forests, leaving them vulnerable to conversion to other land‐use types. This raises the question of whether management for restoration represents an economically viable alternative.

In the tropics, selectively logged forests (that is, forests from which timber trees of harvestable size/value have been…

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Indonesia maintained lower losses for third year in a row In positive news, primary forest loss in Indonesia decreased by 5% in 2019 compared to the year before, marking the third year in a row of lower levels of loss. Indonesia hasn’t seen such low levels of primary forest loss since the beginning of the century. Read more here.

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Eco-business | What are the obstacles in protecting Indonesia’s forests and cutting emissions?

Eco-business | What are the obstacles in protecting Indonesia’s forests and cutting emissions?

  An analysis by academics finds a huge swath of forest in Indonesia that can still potentially be cleared because it lies within logging and plantation concessions, with few requirements for concession holders to conserve them.

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