ONLINE MEDIA SEMINAR „Building a green, healthy and resilient futurewith forests -How to report on the role of forests in times of crises“ was organised from 28–29 April 2022 ahead of the World Forestry Congress in Korea, with the aim to help journalists from around the world in learning and connecting with leading scientists and […]
Read more "Launch of publications and Awards at World Forestry Congress"Heat, sun, strenuous labor (including child labor) with low pay leading to poverty and tears; these were my first impressions after visiting a sapphire mine near Ilakaka, in the Southern part of Madagascar. Sapphires mines near Ilakaka are some of the biggest. The whole town of Ilakaka on Route Nationale 7 (RN 7) was formed […]
Read more "Sapphires rush in Madagascar – cure or curse?"I originally published this article on earth.com, where I work as a contributor. Madagascar’s forests are beautiful but embattled. Humans arrived on Madagascar, the world’s fourth-largest island, for the first time only about 2,000 years ago. Since the arrival of humans the island, home to unique and strange wildlife, has changed radically. Giant flightless elephant […]
Read more "Poaching Madagascar’s Rare Trees"Caught on camera: The fossa, Madagascar’s elusive top predator Fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) at the Houston Zoo. Josh Henderson, CC BY-SA Asia Murphy, Pennsylvania State University Mention wildlife on Madagascar and the first thing listeners probably picture is the island’s famed lemurs. As many people know, these unique primates are found nowhere else, and are the […]
Read more "Fossa, Madagascar’s elusive top predator"Forestry issues on COP 23 “Climate is not for sale“ During a side event last year on COP 23 in Bonn, Germany: Bolivia has presented its answer to REDD+ mechanism; “A Sustainable and Just alternative to REDD+: The Bolivian Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism“. This mechanism promotes the integral and sustainable management of the forests, […]
Read more "Bolivian answer to REDD+"Forestry issues on COP23 It is a well-known fact that the meat industry, especially beef production is one of the largest sources of Greenhouses gases (GHG), especially methane. A relation between meat consumption and climate change was one of the hot topics of the UNFCCC COP23 that happened from 6th till 20th of November 2017 […]
Read more "“Livestock, Bio-sequestration & Forests”"DROUGHT, FIRE AND CHARCOAL PRODUCTION IN ATSIMO ANDREFANA These days Madagascar is on fire. When taking the RN7 from Antananarivo to Toliara, hundreds of fires burning in the savanna that replaced the original forest can be seen. The situation on the coast is not better. On the 10th of March, 8.5 Ha of mangrove and […]
Read more "Fires are ravaging Madagascar"In 2017 theme of the World Environment Day was “Connecting people to nature”. The idea behind the subject is to get people into the nature to appreciate its beauty and its importance. So, World Environment Day theme is an ideal occasion to go out end enjoy national parks and other wilderness areas in your vicinity. Madagascar […]
Read more "Spiny forest and the World Environement day 2017"Forestry issues on Cop 23 The new 25 -year reforestation and forest protection initiative Trillion trees was presented in WWF pavilion, PandaHub, during the COP23. The aim of this project funded by WWF, BirdLife International, and the Wildlife Conservation Society is to help end deforestation and to restore one trillion trees by 2050, a number that […]
Read more "Trillion trees project"“We, the indigenous peoples and local communities, are the guardians of the forest and we come to COP23 to tell our stories of hope and struggle “ The delegation of indigenous peoples and local communities from the forests of Mesoamerica, the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia have decided to organise a bus tour […]
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