Asia-Pacific forestry information

2016

02.02

New deforestation hotspot threatens southern Peru’s tremendous

2 February 2016, Mongabay news - The lower Las Piedras River, in the far west Amazon rainforests of the Madre de Dios region of southern Peru, is an incredibly biodiverse area — but its also the site of an increasing amount of deforestation. The headwaters of the Las Piedras River are in Alto Purus National Park, but the...

2016

01.26

Most ‘frontiers of plantation expansion’ are losing far more

26 January 2016, Mongabay news - Nearly all of the recent tree cover loss in several frontiers of plantation expansion is happening outside established plantation boundaries, according to a study released Monday by the World Resources Institute. The study finds 90 percent of that loss is coming at the expense of natural forests...

2016

01.14

Forest loss increased annually for 25 years at oldest Amazon mega-dam

14th January 2016, Mongabay news - Researchers examining changes in forest cover encircling the Amazons oldest mega-dam have found that hundreds of square kilometers of forest have been lost each year of the dams 25-year history. The study, published in Applied Geographylate in 2015, was undertaken by an international team from...

2016

01.06

Global wood production shows a record high elevation

6January 2016, MNA news - The press release of the FAO Representation in Iran shows growth in wood products in 2014, including industrial roundwood, sawnwood, wood-based panels and pulp and paper, ranging from 1 to 5 percent, surpassing the pre-recession levels of 2007. The fastest growth was registered in Asia-Pacific and...

2016

01.20

Widespread death of evergreens predicted in American Southwest

20 January 2016, Mongabay news - Researchers published a paper last month in the journal Nature Climate Change predicting widespread death of needleleaf evergreen trees in the Southwest United States by the year 2100 due to global warming. Trees have already suffered mightily as historic drought conditions exacerbated by...

2016

01.21

Yaguas National Park, another great attempt at conservation in Peru

21 January 2016, Mongabay news - Much is known and has beenstudied about the rampant deforestation inMadre de Dios due to illegal mining and logging. The destruction of primary forest in Perus Amazon region has left in its wake degraded soils and mercury contamination, as well as the irreversible loss of ecosystems on which the...

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