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Today for you 32 new not-so-site-specific posts about earth’s trees!
(466th edition)
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Index & Links:
ART
1) Poetry: Pan http://bit.ly/eFEz
2) Poetry: You’ve got to accentuate the positive http://bit.ly/15xa5
3) Paintings of the Rainforest http://bit.ly/z4wB
INTERVIEWS
4) Interview: Montana Forest defenders in the 1970’s http://bit.ly/vHSP
5) Interview: Mr. REDD-Monitor Man addresses a flawed carbon scheme
SPECIES EXTINCTION
6) For most species extinction per hectare Palm oil is better than any
other http://bit.ly/AuC1
7) World’s Tropical forests will be all but gone in just 20 years!
8) Wildlife hunting coming to a rapid end, forests soon empty http://bit.ly/ORIB
9) We must address extinction threat to wild medicines http://bit.ly/14ZRQ
10) More monitoring needed for “Tsunami stage” of global deforestation
GREENWASHING
11) Conservation International is heavy on Con and light on
Conservation http://bit.ly/3XNb
12) Mainstream eco-protection is corrupted by weak performance measure
& reporting standards http://bit.ly/10SJy
13) Greenwashing the long-term degradation of the planet’s
forest-based biodiversity http://bit.ly/MloM
14) Can FSC forest certification model be used to demonstrate true
sustainability? http://bit.ly/HZSq
15) Consensus cuttings of a proverbial baby in half is conservation
foolery! http://bit.ly/MXmv
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
16) Airplane Laser technology can measure threat-level related to
forest changes http://bit.ly/hWtq
17) Damage measured by laser scanner linked to spectrometer on board
aircraft http://bit.ly/17yFN
18) High-fidelity Imaging Spectroscopy (HiFIS) http://bit.ly/cZQB
19) Protecting primary forests requires protecting secondary forests
too! http://bit.ly/41iix6
20) Flee the city! Trees & Nature make minds and bodies work better
21) Relevancy of forest science according to Discover’s top 100
science stories of 2008? http://bit.ly/15gPs
22) The truth from Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute http://bit.ly/ksfE
23) How do we know if Habitat Connectivity Corridors really work?
24) Smithsonian’s Symposium on Rainforest Survival Concludes
25) More on Smithsonian Symposium & debate on is it climate or it
deforestation?
BIOFUELS / AGROFORESTRY
26) Agro-fuels are too exploitative, too harmful to impoverished
communities & ecosystems!
27) Forest plantations for sustainable production in the tropics: key
issues for decision-makers
REDD & CLIMATE ISSUES
28) Wisdom on what REDD is and isn’t… http://bit.ly/lrI9
29) REDD: Saudi Arabia & Brazil fight of “forests in exhaustion” based
carbon credits http://bit.ly/yoar
30) Friends of the Earth Report on forests and Climate http://bit.ly/VEdc
31) World’s forests lose 40% of their greenhouse absorbing capacity in
just 20 years http://bit.ly/vAOp
FOREST ECONOMICS
32) According to 142 organizations: World Bank is unfit to manage
climate adaption funds http://bit.ly/RfgC
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