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Sustainable Forestry
Posts in this category are about Sustainable Forestry. Standing forests are tremendously valuable for fish and wildlife, clean water and air, recreational uses, a stable climate, and a wide range of other ecosystem services. When logged conventionally, with large clear-cuts and insufficient attention to the health of the ecosystem, these other benefits are unnecessarily sacrificed. In order to protect these natural spaces there must be a system of forestry that takes trees while leaving the forest intact.
(Adapted from ConservationEconomy.net)
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: All Eyes on Forest Protection Body
KOTAGIRI, NILGIRI MOUNTAINS, India, Mar 15 (IPS) - Seemingly unstoppable development has made a
mockery of the protected status of this southern Indian region,
which houses vast biodiversity and some of the finest examples of
moist deciduous and tropical forests.
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(0)New study debunks myths about vulnerability of Amazon rain forests to drought
A new study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a previously published report and claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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West Africa sets out to protect dying mangroves
FOBO, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - Salt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing erosion and ravaging fish stocks.
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