News G20: Minister Highlights the Role of Agroecology 🌾 The minister reinforced that the agroforestry program gives priority to the recovery of the vegetation of the settlements created in the Amazon during the military dictatorship.
Spotlight - Original Spotlight Open Geospatial Data Slashes Forestry Costs by 60% 🛰️💸 Monocultures still dominate Nordic forestry—67% of seedlings in Finland are Norway spruce.
News - Original Tech Suma and Forus Tree Team Up for Calder Valley Planting🌳 Forus Tree’s fencing-first model offers a potential plastic-free alternative, but whether it can scale remains to be seen.
Spotlight Carbon Projects Boom in DRC, But Are Communities Protected? 🌿 Moretti said the allure of carbon credits has enticed not just private companies like KMS, but also “a lot of development actors, NGOs and even government officials”.
Spotlight Mass Data Haul Reveals Life after Wildfire There are several ways frequent fire before the megafires could allow species to increase.
Tech - Original Tech Open Foris Whisp: A Game-Changer for Forest Monitoring 🌳💻 At its core, Whisp is like a forest detective armed with satellite maps, land-use data, and tree-cover analyses.
News - Original News COP29 Drills Down Forest Carbon Rules... in Theory 🌍💸 “This is not abstract bureaucracy,” he insisted. “These markets can drive real emissions reductions.”
Spotlight Governments Must Tackle Climate Disinformation, Experts Urge Therefore, more proactive, clear, accurate and effective communication efforts are consistently and repeatedly needed.
News Venezuelan Forest Research Faces Crisis Amid Collapse 🌳 The fragmentation of political control is also taking a toll on Amazonian research in Venezuela.
News - Original News Northwest Forest Plan Embraces Community Engagement 🌲 Don’t just scroll—save the owls and the trees.
Tech Tech - Original The Biggest Forest Carbon Database 🌲🌍 Covering 529 forest sites across eight biomes, it’s a meticulously curated resource for anyone studying carbon fluxes, forest traits, or the effects of climate change.
Spotlight How Rethinking ‘What Is a Forest’ Can Result in More Effective Conservation When the policy community asks, “is deforestation going up or down?” an acceptable answer can no longer be, “it depends."