Asia-Pacific forestry information

2014

03.14

ICRAF Partners for Agroforestry in Africa and Asia

14 May 2014, IISD News - The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) has announced a national partnership in Indonesia and a regional partnership in Africa. The partnerships aim to, respectively, provide farmers and communities with access to ICRAF research and support the implementation of climate-smart agriculture. In Indonesia...

2014

03.28

State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2014

28 May 2014, Forest Trends News - In a bid to reduce their contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, corporate leaders like Chevrolet, Marks Spencer, and Allianz continued to voluntarily purchase carbon offsets in 2013, locking 76 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, according to the annual...

2017

10.26

Reaching forest cover target ‘a challenging task': minister says

14 May 2014, Vientiane Times News - Increasing forest cover to 65 percent of the countrys entire area by 2015 and further to 70 percent by 2020 will prove challenging even though Laos plants 30,000 hectares of trees each year. Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Vilayvanh Phomkhe, made the observation recently, noting that...

2014

04.24

'Better late than never': Myanmar bans timber exports to save

24 April 2014, Mongabay news - Myanmar contains some of Asias largest forests, but has been losing them at a rapid pace during the last two decades as logging companies emptied woodlands to meet the demands of the lumber industry. In an effort to save its disappearing forests, Myanmar implemented a ban on log exports, effective...

2014

03.08

Loss of wildlife and deforestation can increase human disease

8 May 2014, Mongabay news - Deforestation is wiping out habitat for plants and animals around the world. It is linked to reductions in air and water quality, hastening climate change, and is contributing to increased rates of drought and fire. Now, for the first time, researchers have found that deforestation may also lead to a...

2014

03.06

Almost 90 percent of Republic of the Congo's lowland forests open to

6 May 2014, Mongabay news - Although the Republic of the Congo has opened up nearly 90 percent of its lowland forests to logging, the majority of the logging occurring in the country is still illegal, according to a new report from the Chatham House. In fact the UK policy institute finds that illegal logging in the Republic of...

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