Geography Environmental Interactions: Intermediate v. 1&2: Deforestation and Desertification Support Notes (National Qualifications Curriculum Support)
virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's probably no great secret to TreeHugger readers at this point that part of the reason carbon emissions in developing nations are rapidly rising is partially because manufacturing of goods for export to the developed world. In fact in China at least...
Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The journal, Nature, has an outstanding success story about efforts to protect Brazil's Atlantic Coastal Forest: Stemming the deforestation required a broad set of measures: new laws and governmental incentives, the commitment of researchers and conservationists, increased funding from international donors and the Brazilian government, and a growing community awareness. Lately, a boost has come from...
Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
While the world's efforts to sustain biodiversity continue to fall short, the journal Nature reports that there are some silver linings to the continuing cloud of biodiversity loss: Since the 2010 target was adopted in 2002, the Brazilian government has increased the proportion of land designated as protected by 25% and deforestation rates have been reduced by 60%. It plans to identify further priority...
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nairobi — Houses left behind by Mau settlers were demolished on Thursday in a clear indication that the government would not allow the evicted squatters to return to the forest. The Kenya Forest Service has also sent more rangers to the South Western Mau to ensure that the families that leave the country's largest source of water do not return. In Nairobi, Forestry and Wildlife minister Noah...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
As temperatures rise, drought, crop failure and deforestation have combined to create a crisis of malnutrition. Foreigners have come to Anjandobo village, a cluster of wooden huts on the desolate red dust of southern Madagascar. They're vaza -- outsiders.
CienciaPR News Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two new endemic plant species from Puerto Rico were found recently: Tabebuia karsoana and Reynosia vivesiana. They are both endangered species. Tabebuia karsoana's habitat in the northern Karso is being threatened by deforestation and a modifications to the Karso Law approved by the Legislature. Reynosa vivesiana is considered critically endangered because there are about a dozen specimens.
eNewsUSA (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Nov 19: November 2009 – With just 17 days left before the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Yvo de Boer predicted success for a framework accord including "specific reduction targets from the United States, the only hold-out among industrialized nations, with a formal treaty to follow within...
Wadds' PR blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
If you’re in London and near Trafalgar Square in the next week go and have a look at the graveyard of tree roots called Ghost Forest. Its been put there by artist Angela Palmer in a bid to raise the issue of deforestation of the world’s forests.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Britain is to contribute hundreds of millions of pounds to an emergency rainforest protection fund.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A global emergency funding scheme to drastically reduce the destruction of tropical rainforests over the next five years was announced by the Prince of Wales today, with the US pledging $275m (£165m) towards rainforest protection. The plan relies on developed countries paying rainforest nations such as Brazil and Indonesia to reduce rates of deforestation and thereby cut carbon emissions. Currently,...
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
TARUNA JAYA, Indonesia - Across a patch of pineapples shrouded in smoke, Idris Hadrianyani battled a menace that has left his family sleepless and sick -- and has wrought as much damage on the planet as has exhaust from all the cars and trucks in the United States. Against the advancing flames, he waved a hose with a handmade nozzle confected from a plastic soda bottle. The lopsided struggle is part...
What Really happened (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A new research has determined that despite the economic effects of the global financial crisis (GFC), carbon dioxide emissions from human activities rose 2 per cent in 2008 to an all-time high of 1.3 tonnes of carbon per capita per year. The research, by scientists from the internationally respected climate research group, the Global Carbon Project (GCP), said that rising emissions from fossil fuels...
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
After 25 years of living in Delhi, my family and I are just discovering Southeast Asia. We went pony trekking in Bhutan. I’d met the King in Delhi and he lent us his horses, so there we were at 16,000 feet with all the King’s horses and all the King’s men. We stayed in magnificent tents with hot water and we even had our feet bathed. Bhutan is like the Indian Himalayas must have...
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Tourism, tea and energy industries threatened after a quarter of huge Mau forest destroyed in 20 years By Xan Rice in Nairobi, www.guardian.co.uk , Wednesday 18 November 2009 22.48 GMT Several thousand people who had settled illegally in Kenya's most important forest have left their homes at the beginning of an eviction plan designed to end rampant environmental degradation in the Rift valley. Security...
Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Speaking of the law of unintended consequences... Scientists have sounded the alarm about the need to properly design schemes to pay countries to protect their tropical forests as a means of slowing global warming. Deforestation is estimated to contribute about 20% of global emissions of the heat-trapping gas, carbon dioxide (CO2). In a paper published in Current Biology magazine, the scientists warned...
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Eileen Murphy | 23/10/2009
In the Imbabura province of Ecuador lies the beautiful Manduriacos Valley, a sub-tropical zone surrounded by primary forest and rich in bio-diversity. Life for the valley’s human inhabitants, however, hasn’t been easy. The continuing decline in farming income, poor infrastructure and limited economic resources have all had an impact on the 500 families that make up the area’s twelve communities. The
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