Asia-Pacific forestry information

2015

03.17

FAO Publications Focus on Disaster Risk Reduction and Forestry Links

17 March 2015, IISD news -On the occasion of the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) released a special edition of its forestry journal focusing on the impacts of disasters on forest-dependent communities and published a brochure on natural disasters, agriculture...

2015

03.09

Green Silk Road Fund to Recover 1.3 Million Hectares of Land

9 March 2015, IISD news - On the sidelines of UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 3rd Scientific Conference, an initiative to plant 1.3 billion trees in ecologically vulnerable regions along the Silk Road over the next 10 years was launched. The Green Ecological Silk Road Investment Fund (or Green Silk Road Fund)...

2015

02.26

Researchers propose improvements for Peru's protected areas

26 February 2015, Mongabay news - In astudy published recently inPLOS ONE,researchers examined Perus network of protected areas. They found that many of these dont exist in the areas most important for preserving the countrys biodiversity and addressing its threats, and suggest alternatives to make the system more effective. To...

2015

02.12

Nepal prepares for UN forest carbon trading

12 February 2015, Eco-Business news - Nepals forests store more than 500 million tonnes of carbon, new government research has revealed. This is equivalent to about two thirds of Indias total emissions in 2011. Officials say this is the first nationwide survey of its kind and an important step towards preparing the country for...

2015

02.23

EU plan to curb illegal logging: Think big by thinking small

23 February 2015, CIFOR news - Faced with growing pressure to root out illegal timber from international trade, some tropical timber-producing countries have a choice.On one hand, they can adopt and enforce a legality verification system that instantly covers their entire timber supply chain, from large-scale industrial logging...

2015

02.18

REDD ink: Forest efforts in Peru all but absent from news media

18 February 2015, CIFOR news - Peru has received international recognition for pushing ahead with programs to tackle climate change and deforestation, but those efforts have largely been ignored in the national media, a new reportsays. The study of national and regional newspapers over a 10-year period found very few articles...

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