Tropical Forests: A Review

News:

• New York Declaration on Forests 5-year assessment report calls for primary forest protection!
  23 Oct 2019
  

  “We must preserve and restore natural forests, focusing on primary forests” Read about this and more on page 14 of https://forestdeclaration.org/images/uploads/resource/2019NYDFReport.pdf

• Wild Europe, old growth and wilderness conference (Nov. 20-21)!
  23 Oct 2019
  

  Just announced, Old Growth and Wilderness Conference is November 20th-21st! More at https://www.wildeurope.org/old-growth-forest-protection-strategy-old-growth-forest-protection-conference/ and https://www.wildeurope.org/president-of-slovakia-to-participate-at-wild-europe-conference/#more-1973

• See the CLARA-Wild Heritage submission to the climate summit in NYC on why primary forests are essential for a safe climate
  27 Sep 2019
  

  FORESTS STORE MORE CARBON THAN IS CURRENTLY IN the atmosphere (and more than known oil and coal reserves combined). Forests are therefore a critical component of climate solutions because there is enough carbon in forests that if burned or otherwise released into the atmosphere, it would trigger dangerous warming, even if we eliminate fossil fuel […]

• Greta Thunberg to U.N.: you have stolen my dreams and my childhood!
  27 Sep 2019
  

  We are in the middle of a climate breakdown, and all they can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. Here is a link to the full article and video: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/23/world-leaders-generation-climate-breakdown-greta-thunberg

• A critical message from Thunberg and Monbiot: Protect, Restore, Fund
  27 Sep 2019
  

  Environmental activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have helped produce a short film highlighting the need to protect, restore and use nature to tackle the climate crisis. Living ecosystems like forests, mangroves, swamps and seabeds can pull enormous quantities of carbon from the air and store them safely, but natural climate solutions currently receive only […]

• We are destroying our ecosphere…
  15 Aug 2019
  

  A new report https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/below-the-canopy by WWF and ZSL finds that on average the world’s forests have lost over half of their vertebrates in less than fifty years – a catastrophic decline that threatens numerous species and also the vital ecosystem services forests provide and that we all depend on. Exceptionally bad news for wildlife and […]

• The IPCC releases a special report on climate change and land
  9 Aug 2019
  

  The IPCC report on desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems has some very key conclusions, including emphasizing the need for conservation of high-carbon ecosystems (such as peatlands, wetlands, rangelands, mangroves and forests), the considerable risks associated with biofuels and the need for changes in consumption patterns, […]

• Indigenous Peoples welcome IPCC report on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
  9 Aug 2019
  

  A statement on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land from Indigenous Peoples and local communities* from 42 countries spanning 76% of the world’s tropical forests. Read the full article at https://ipccresponse.org/home-en