27 January 2012, the Guardian news - GScientists record Amazons structure and biodiversity by bouncing laser beams off forest 400,000 times per second. Five thousand metres above the most biodiverse corner of the Amazon, tropical ecologist Greg Asner and his team see a kaleidoscope of colours among a mass of green. Huddled in a...

27 Jan 2012, EFI news - Major forest infrastructure will be opened up to researchers from the public and private sectors across Europe thanks to the newly started project Designing trees for the Future (Trees4Future). For the first time key infrastructures within the European forest based sector, including databases...

20 January 2012, The Jakarta Globe news -President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has issued a regulation that sets aside for conservation 45 percent of Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo Island, to be the “lungs of the world.” In a press release, the president’s office said the plan would ensure that local ecosystems...

14 January 2012, Vietnamnet news - The Vietnam Environment Administration officially launched the largest ever biodiversity conservation project on January 12, aiming to establish a biodiversity corridor in three central provinces of Quang Nam, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue. The budget for the eight-year project, titled Greater...

13 January 2012, Sciencemag news - After receiving pledges totaling more than its goal of $100 million by a year-end deadline, the Ecuadorian government last week announced that it would move forward with the so-called Yasuni ITT Initiative, aninnovative plan to leave untapped more than 900 million barrels of crude oil beneath...

13 January 2012, Islamabad news - Since the adoption of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the government took measures to enhance forests cover from 5% to 6% including approval of forestry mega projects at the cost of Rs12 billion, said Muhammad Javed Malik, Federal Secretary, Ministry of National Disaster Management. He...