Topic: forests

This brief presents preliminary findings and recommendations from research on natural resources in decentralization efforts around the world.

The first-ever, detailed map of intact forest landscapes in Russia, and can be used to flag areas where special precautions must be taken before development decisions are made.

Describes, for the first time, the extent and distribution of the country’s intact forests while identifying priority areas for conservation and future monitoring work.

A comprehensive, map-based analysis of the scale and pace of change affecting Indonesia’s forests and the forces and actors that are driving deforestation – turning Indonesia from a forest-rich country to a forest-poor country.

This first attempt at identifying boreal forest areas of minimal human disturbance (intact) using high-resolution satellite imagery reveals that only 14 percent or 32 million hectares of the boreal or northern forests of European Russia remain.

Cameroon’s forestry legislation is implemented by the allocation of ventes de coupe, Unités Forestières d’Aménagement (UFA) and community forests. This paper presents information on how different logging rights were allocated and to whom.

This millennial edition focuses on five critical ecosystems that have been shaped by the interaction of physical environment, biological conditions, and human intervention: Croplands, forests, coastal zones, freshwater systems, and grasslands.

Explores the scale and magnitude of timber, energy, and mineral resources development within Canada’s northern frontier, home to over a third of the world’s boreal forest and a tenth of total global forest cover.

Warns that allowing uncontrolled extractive activities in Venezuela’s Guayana region risks opportunities for economic growth and conservation. Identifies policy options for development plans with safeguard measures based on conservation, sustainability.

Offers the first scientific assessment of the world’s large, intact natural forests and graphically depicts the extent of human impacts on global forests.

Identifies key steps Guyana can take for sustainable forestry management, providing both concrete proposals for immediate and long-term action and a comprehensive analysis of the country’s forestry programs to date.

Across the United States, air pollution is contributing to the decline and ultimate death of forest trees and to widespread losses in crop yields.