Tag: Forest

  • NASA | When Trees Fall, Landsat Maps Them

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    Twelve years of global deforestation, wildfires, windstorms, insect infestations and more are captured in a new set of forest disturbance maps created from billions of pixels acquired by the imager on the NASA-USGS Landsat 7 satellite. The maps are the first to measure forest loss and gain using a consistent method around the globe at…

  • Sustainability a priority as forestry sector plans way forward.

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    BY ALF JAMES SUSTAINABLE development is integral to the success of the forestry business, according to Viv McMenamin, Mondi’s director: land and forestry. She says a sustainable plantation forest aims to maintain ecosystem functionality at a landscape level, conserve high conservation value ecosystems, enhance local welfare and be financially profitable by: • identifying and protecting…

  • Indian man single-handedly plants a 1,360-acre forest

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    Jadav Payeng turned a barren sandbar in northern India into a lush new forest ecosystem. By Stephen Messenger Fri, Dec 21 2012 at 1:20 PM Forests & Trees, TreeHugger The forest, called the Molai woods, is a safe haven for numerous birds, deer, rhinos, tigers and elephants — species increasingly at risk from habitat loss. (Photo:…