Asia-Pacific forestry information

2015

06.20

CBFP Partners Discuss Illegal Wildlife Trade, Sustainable Management

20 June 2015, IISD news - The 15th Meeting of Partners of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) convened from 15-19 June 2015, in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on the theme Ecosystems of the Congo Basin: Valuing Natural Capital, Green Growth and Regional Development. The meeting included a ministerial conference on wildlife...

2015

06.16

Climate negotiators make key breakthrough on forest protection deal

16 June 2015, Mongabay news - Negotiators at U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, have produced a draft agreement on the technical provisions of a plan to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Known as REDD+, the forest conservation plan is now far more likely to be included in a climate deal to be...

2015

06.09

Order bans exploitation of rare protective forest species

9 June 2015, Vietnamnews news -The Prime Minister has banned the exploitation of precious, rare and endangered fauna and flora and those species that are protected by law in natural, protective forests. A coastal protective forest in southernmost province of Ca Mau. — Photo nguoiduatin.vn The recently-issued decision...

2015

06.01

How many tree species are found in the world's rainforests

1 June2015, Mongabay news - The worlds tropical rainforests are likely home to 40,000 to 53,000 tree species, argues a paper published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Analyzing abundance data spanning 657,000 individual tress across 11,371 species, Ferry Slik of Universiti Brunei Darusallam...

2015

05.29

First-of-its-kind mapping technique sheds new light on tropical

29 May2015, Mongabay news - Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts have developed vegetation height maps for the entire tropics at very fine spatial scales. These first-of its-kind high resolution maps can help researchers estimate forest cover, monitor biodiversity and wildlife habitats, and manage and...

2015

06.02

Director-generals inaugurated as merger of Indonesian Environment

2 June 2015, Mongabay news - Indonesias newly merged Environment and Forestry Ministry completed a major step in its restructuring last week with the inauguration of 13 director-generals, with important implications for President Joko Jokowi Widodos agendas on climate change, land reform and more. The new director-generals line...

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