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Loss big animals reduces forests carbon-storing capacity
2015-12-19 21:04:57| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Over-hunting contributes to forest carbon loss, claims a study published this week in the AAAS journal Science Advances. After looking at data from 31 sites from the Atlantic Forest researchers conclude that the over-hunting of large animals in those forests will eventually result in the widespread loss of the larger tree species responsible for storing the most carbon. The study lends further support for the need for conservation efforts that focus on protecting ecosystem services as a whole,...
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Yet another way that humans are wrecking tropical forests
2015-12-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: If the world is going to meet its goal of limiting planetary warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, well have to burn dramatically fewer fossil fuels -- but thats not enough. Well also need nature on our side, and that means dramatically halting the rate of deforestation so that tropical forests around the world stop losing their carbon to the atmosphere (currently contributing between 7 to 17 percent of global emissions) and start pulling it in again. A new study...
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Heres why market-based initiatives alone wont save the worlds forests and climate
2015-12-11 07:05:50| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A new study looked at Papua New Guinea's Wanang Conservation Area, where villagers work with conservationists in exchange for financial rewards -- the type of market-based project that is the focus of the UNs REDD+ program. When it comes to conservationists working with forest communities, the study found, direct payments may be helpful as part of a broader reciprocal relationship, but direct payments alone will likely fail. Climate negotiators at COP21 discussing REDD+ and other forest initiatives...
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Recycling: Food Waste For PigswillSave Threatened Forests
2015-12-10 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Domestic pigs have no problem eating our leftovers, and saving food waste to feed livestock could even save vast swathes of Brazilian forest and savannah, Cambridge researchers say. However, in order to protect these threatened environments, the European Union will need to lift its ban on pigswill-feeding. The ban was originally implemented across the EU in 2002 when a U.K. farmer illegally fed uncooked food waste to his pigs, causing an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a highly contagious...
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Delegates at climate talks focus on saving the world's forests
2015-12-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The climate deal being negotiated here is meant to begin a transformation of the worlds energy systems, but it has another goal that has received far less attention: a sweeping effort to save the worlds forests. Dozens of countries put forests at the center of the plans they submitted ahead of the conference, near Paris. As the talks began, more than 60 heads of state emphasized their commitment to forest conservation. If a deal is reached this week and the plans go into effect in 2020, these...
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