Asia-Pacific forestry information

2014

09.17

Database Provides Genetic Markers for Tropical Trees

17 September 2014, IISD news - An interactive open-access database, called tropiTree, provides detailed information on genetic markers for 24 species of trees, which are important to smallholders in tropical agroforestry systems. Reduced sequencing costs made the development of the genetic markers in the database possible for...

2014

10.07

Madagascar and CITES Cooperating to Address Illegal Timber Trade

7 October 2014, IISD news - On the margins of the 69th UN General Assembly, Madagascar President, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, and John Scanlon, Secretary-General, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), discussed continued cooperation and means to stem illegal trade in timber. The...

2014

11.04

Reducing tax evasion could help save the Amazon

4 November 2014, Mongabay news - Cracking down on tax evasion and taxing unused land would help slow deforestation for land speculation in the Brazilian Amazon, argues a new report published by Imazon. The report,O potencial do Imposto Territorial Rural contra o desmatamento especulativo na Amazônia, uses satellite imagery and...

2014

10.30

Dissolving pulp: a growing threat to global forest

30 October 2014, Mongabay news - Dissolving pulp is not just athreat to the forests of Indonesia.It is a growing industry across the globe, and its putting several of the worlds endangered forests in jeopardy. You might not have heard of dissolving pulp, but that doesnt mean you arent connected to it. The term dissolving pulp...

2014

11.03

Workshop on the International Arrangement on Forests beyond 2015

3 November 2014, IISD news - The Workshop on the International Arrangement on Forests (IAF) beyond 2015, a Country-Led Initiative (CLI) in support of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF), was held in Beijing, China from 29-31 October 2014. The objective of this Workshop was to examine and consider options for a renewed IAF based on...

2014

10.02

United Nations Environment Programme and International Union for

2 October 2014, UN-REDD news - Efforts to combat climate change and improve livelihoods by restoring forest lands continue to build momentum. This was boosted on 4 September 2014, in the lead up to the UN Climate Summit 2014, with the launch of a new collaboration between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the...

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