Category: conservation
Forest Conservation in Light of Climate Change
This presentation examines the potential effects of climate change upon Africa's forests. All eco-regions in Africa have been experiencing warming since the 1960s, a pattern which is expected to continue. The presentation looks at the IUCN approach to conservation amongst others, and its relavance to forestry in light of climate change. It recommends three conservation strategies - adaptation, accommodation and transformation - combined with better policies and great research in order to...
Social Role-Play Games Vs Individual Perceptions of Conservation and PES Agreements for Maintaining Rubber Agroforests in Jambi (Sumatra), Indonesia
Financial incentives can both support and undermine social norms compatible with environmental service enhancement. External co-investment—e.g., through incentives from programs to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) and eco-certification—needs to synergize with local efforts by understanding local dynamics and conditions for free and prior informed consent. We assessed the perceptions and behavior of rubber agroforest farmers under existing conservation agreements as a...
Nature and Faune (Volume 26, Issue 1) The forest sector in the green economy in Africa
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Systemic Conservation, REDD, and the Future of the Amazon Basin
In a new article, “Systemic Conservation, REDD, and the Future of the Amazon Basin”, three scientists (Daniel Nepstad, David McGrath, Britaldo Soares Filho) with six decades of experience studying the Amazon region present a retrospective of the last six years and two plausible scenarios for the Amazon region in 2020. In a scenario of “accelerated frontier expansion”, the gains of the last six years are lost, deforestation rates go up, a widespread forest dieback sets in through a...
Monitoring Forest Biodiversity
The monitoring of REDD biodiversity benefits is currently being discussed in many fora. In this context, "Monitoring Forest Biodiversity" (by Toby Gardner), published by Earthscan in its Forest Library series, provides useful suggestions for improvements in analysis and interpretation of forest biodiversity data, and outlines cost-effective monitoring options
Preserving the World’s Tropical Forests - A Price on Carbon May Not Do
Climate policy will create both disincentives and incentives for tropical deforestation. Disincentives if the carbon emissions from forest clearing are priced, as is currently being discussed within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); incentives as a price on carbon will increase the demand for carbon-neutral energy sources, including bioenergy, making deforestation for biomass cultivation increasingly profitable. The question is whether the increased cost for...
