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The forestry industry wants to remove damaged logs from native forests after the bushfires. But our wildlife needs them now more than ever.
Village Forests can reduce poverty and also deforestation if done properly.
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Village Forests under the Social forestry Scheme can not only reduce poverty but also deforestation, study finds.
Drones are increasingly used to gather information and inform research. As technology develops longer-lasting batteries and more sensitive cameras, the role of drones in research will continue to grow.
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Drones have proven extremely useful for research, collecting detailed data to help monitor hard-to-access areas.
John Evelyn.
Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1687
John Evelyn’s 1664 work ‘Sylva’ called for a mass tree planting campaign.
An old male reindeer weathers a heavy snow storm.
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The winter of 2018-19 claimed 200 reindeer in Svalbard, Norway, according to a recent census.
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The species which surround a tree in a forest make up the character of its neighbourhood. Good neighbours can make forests resilient to climate change.
A Landsat view of Mount St. Helens in 2011.
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Since 2008, Landsat data has been free for the world to use, spurring new applications and scientific research. But that door could soon slam shut.
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Integrating trees into farming systems can improve farming, help the environment, and boost animal welfare too.
Like Dr. Seuss’ imaginary truffula trees, baobabs are endangered.
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Without an array of ecosystems and species, it’s tough for farmers to grow crops or ranchers to raise animals.
Clearfell logging in the Thomson Catchment with the Thomson Reservoir in the background.
Chris Taylor
Logging in the Thomson Catchment could reduce water supply by the equivalent of 600,000 people by 2050.
Missing the wood for the trees.
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Planting trees is a popular way for companies to clean up their image. Unfortunately, it may cause more problems than it solves.
Cal Fire Division Chief Mark Higgins directs helicopters dropping water in Lakeport, California.
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September 10, 2020
Max Moritz , University of California, Santa Barbara ; Naomi Tague , University of California, Santa Barbara , and Sarah Anderson , University of California, Santa Barbara
As California reels from another devastating fire season, environmental resource scholars explain how the state – and other fire-prone areas – can better prepare and coexist with wildfires.
Wildland firefighters, like this crew heading into New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, in 2012, are equipped and operate differently from urban firefighters.
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A historian of wildfires explains the difference between urban and rural fire cultures, and what it means for protecting communities in fire-prone rural areas.
Increased logging in NSW could affect threatened species.
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More logging will occur in NSW if conservation areas are rezoned by the state government.
Enviva’s wood pellet plant in Ahoskie, NC.
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Deriving fuel from trees costs more than wind and solar power and it emits more carbon than coal. There are many heated debates about this kind of energy, known as forest or woody biomass.
Trunk road.
Paul Biden
Europe loses as many trees to storms each year as Poland produces in timber. Until now, the models for predicting which trees are at risk have not been good enough.
Log barges with illegally felled timber, waiting to be loaded onto the “Harbour Gemini” ship in Paia inlet, Papua New Guinea,
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The federal government is considering watering-down laws against importing illegal timber, but this flies in the face of international evidence.
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It’s as if Socrates’ remark that ‘the trees teach me nothing’ is very much still the attitude today.
Bob Brown was arrested under an anti-protest law after refusing to obey police directions to leave a forestry coup at Lapoinya State Forest.
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Bob Brown’s successful High Court challenge to an anti-protest law in Tasmania will cause many states to review their own protest laws.
A fire recently tore through an Italian memorial to Mussolini made of trees.
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A forest that is also a disturbing memorial to Mussolini recently burned down.