Asia-Pacific forestry information

2011

05.25

Global Warming May Increase the Capacity of Trees to Store Carbon

25 May 2011, ScienceDaily news - One helpful action anyone can take in response to global warming is to plant trees and preserve forests. Trees and plants capture carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, thereby removing the most abundant greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and storing some of it in their woody tissue. Yet global...

2011

09.08

Ghana raises minimum export trading prices for timber

8 September 2011, Ghanabusinessnews news - Ghana has raised the minimum trading prices of wood products meant for export. The Guiding Selling Pricing Committee of the Timber Industry Development Division (TIDD) of Ghana’s Forestry Commission (FC) which revised upward the Guiding Selling Prices (GSP) of sawn wood products for...

2011

08.09

U.S. Forest Service Visitor's Report Shows Strong Continued Economic

9 August 2011 ， WASHINGTON news – Recreational activities on national forests and grasslands continue to make large economic impacts on Americas rural communities, contributing $14.5 billion annually to the U.S. economy. According to the National Visitor Use Monitoring report released today by Forest Service Chief Tom...

2011

09.02

Bonn Challenge on Forests, Climate Change and Biodiversity

2 September 2011, IUCN news - The German Government, IUCN and the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) are hosting two key back-to-back meetings as the2011International Year of Forests enters its final months. A Restoration Leadership Forum, on 1 September, will be followed by a Ministerial Roundable the...

2011

04.19

‘Win-win’ is too simplistic a description for REDD+ – and

19 April 2011, CIFOR news - Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) coupled with co-benefits such as biodiversity conservation, sustainable development and enhancement of carbon stocks through afforestation (REDD+), accompanied by appropriate safeguards, offers unprecedented potential funding for...

2011

03.18

Will global climate change enhance boreal forest growth

18 May 2011, Terradailynews - With an increasingly warmer climate, there is a trend for springs to arrive earlier and summers to be hotter. Since spring and summer are the prime growing seasons for plants-when flowers bloom and trees increase in girth and height-do these climate changes mean greater seasonal growth for plants?...

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