Category: conservation
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...
