Indian forest and wood certification scheme
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has launched the Indian Forest & Wood Certification Scheme. This national forest certification scheme offers voluntary third-party certification
Forest Management
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Criteria and indicators for the sustainable management of tropical forests
ITTO released a revised edition of its pioneering criteria and indicators (C&I) for sustainable tropical forest management. The aim of this revised edition of the ITTO C&I is to ensure that this instrument
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Detecting forest fragility with satellites
Over the past decades’ forests in different parts of the world have suffered sudden massive tree mortality. Now an international team of scientists led by researchers from Wageningen University in the
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World nears 2020 goal of restoring degraded forests
HONOLULU: The world edged closer to a 2020 goal to repair vast areas of damaged natural lands and forests, officials announced Saturday at the world´s largest conservation meeting. Malawi and Guatemala
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Give indigenous people land rights or fail on deforestation pledges, governors told
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Countries will be unable to meet their climate change pledges unless they secure land rights for people living in the world's tropical forests, indigenous
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The biologist terrifying the US Forest Service and the timber and forest fire-fighting industries
In 1993, the Forest Service began managing for spotted owl habitat, implementing standards intended to reduce logging in owl territories, though cutting trees was still allowed. Since then, populations
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Logging roads have long-lasting impacts on forests
Researchers studied logging roads in the U.S., finding that the roads and log landing areas had far denser soil than even logged parts of a forest. Denser soil can make it less likely for water to be
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Africa: Tanzania Plans to Reduce Gas Emissions By 20pc in 2030
Tanga — Tanzania has planned to implement several climate change mitigation actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10-20 per cent by 2030. According to an official in the Vice President's Office
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Forest restoration can turn the clock back
The ecological and carbon cost of rainforest destruction goes on accumulating for years after nations halt the conversion of canopy into farmland, scientists have found. This implies that to meet ambitious
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REDD+ funds are being put to work in the right places: report
Close to $6 billion has been pledged to conservation initiatives in ten key forest countries in Latin America, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region under REDD+, and that money is being deployed in nations
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MoEF to State: Non-forest activity cannot be permitted in pvt forests
Conversion sanads and felling of trees not recommended in identified private forest areas, Arlekar tells House PORVORIM: The Union Ministry for Environment and Forest (MoEF) has informed the government