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
Today we are delighted to share three new infographics on carbon, biodiversity and primary forests!
“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
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
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 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, […]