Burkina Faso – Part VI of VI-part series: WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM WEST AFRICA’S UNHEARD Hansen Apewe Abaloori, Akaa, Kassena–Nankana West District, Upper East Region, Ghana People in the community of Akaa, in Kassena-Nankana District in Ghana’s Upper East Region, remember the days before officials just across the border in neighbouring Burkina…
Alors que les ministres européens des Transports sont réunis à Luxembourg, une trentaine d’activistes de Greenpeace sont sur place pour dénoncer l’inaction face à la lourde responsabilité de ce secteur dans la crise climatique. En France, par exemple, les mesures prises sont loin d’être suffisantes et nous conduisent droit dans le mur. Cet article [ACTION]…
Timescales can be tricky in forest restoration. We might have the best arguments in the world for why it makes environmental and economic sense to plant trees and let them grow. But most people don’t have the financial flexibility to invest time and resources into planting and then wait years – or decades – for…
Africa – Agriculture continues to present the biggest threat to forests worldwide. Some experts predict that crop production needs to be doubled by 2050 to feed the world at the current pace of population growth and dietary changes toward higher meat and dairy consumption. Scientists generally agree that productivity increase alone is not going to…
Ghana – Part V of VI-part series: WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM WEST AFRICA’S UNHEARD Zizigna Bagambagui, community of Gwenia, Kassena – Nankana District West, Upper East Region, Ghana With soils becoming increasingly infertile in Ghana’s Kassena–Nankana District, many people in farming communities – especially women – rely heavily on income from tree…
Indonesia – Peran lahan gambut sangat signifikan dalam memerangi perubahan iklim. Menempati posisi tinggi dalam daftar aksi mitigasi dan adaptasi perubahan iklim dengan melindungi lahan gambut adalah mengurangi emisi gas rumah kaca melalui dekomposisi gambut. Manajemen air adalah kunci upaya ini. “Lahan gambut memainkan peran penting dalam merawat keragaman hayati, mengurangi emisi gas rumah kaca,…
Cameroon – When Caleb Yengo Tata travelled to the remote Takamanda rainforest region in southwest Cameroon on a research trip with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), he was struck by the high levels of malnutrition and infant mortality that he found there. “We would visit a community one day, and the next day…
“Tenemos unos 20 años para cambiar nuestro actuar antes de que algo irreversible suceda” dijo Robert Nasi, Director General del Centro para la Investigación Forestal Internacional (CIFOR), en la sesión plenaria de apertura del Global Landscapes Forum Kioto (GLF Kioto) llevado a cabo a mediados del mes de mayo, y cuyas discusiones continuarán en junio en…
Avec ses 58 réacteurs et 60 ans d’existence, l’industrie électronucléaire française produit des déchets radioactifs en masse, qui s’accumulent au fil des ans. Que deviennent-ils ? Où sont-ils stockés ? Par où transitent-ils ? Notre carte des déchets nucléaires vous permet d’en savoir plus et découvrir les sites et lieux de passages de matières et…
In Forests News last week: Increasing ecosystem carbon is good for species On International Day of Biological Diversity, a new study explores the relationship between payments for adding ecosystem carbon and the level of biodiversity in 12 landscapes across seven countries –Finland, Indonesia, Mexico, Laos, Peru, Tanzania and Vietnam. Read more. Shea trees and wildfire worries…