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					<title>Carbon markets alone won’t keep Southeast Asia’s forests standing, study says</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/carbon-markets-alone-wont-keep-southeast-asias-forests-standing-study-says/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Aug 2026 02:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Biodiversity, Business, Carbon Credits, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Market, Carbon Sequestration, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Finance, Forest Carbon, Forestry, Forests, Funding, Mitigation, Rainforests, Research, Secondary Forests, Solutions, Sustainable Forest Management, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lush, leafy and luxuriantly diverse, tropical forests are home to an immense array of plants, animals and fungi. They also provide humanity with water, clean air and flood protection, and lock vast amounts of carbon in their tree trunks, roots and soils. Yet, forest conservation often loses out to extractive industries and agribusiness when valued [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lush, leafy and luxuriantly diverse, tropical forests are home to an immense array of plants, animals and fungi. They also provide humanity with water, clean air and flood protection, and lock vast amounts of carbon in their tree trunks, roots and soils. Yet, forest conservation often loses out to extractive industries and agribusiness when valued through a purely economic lens. As a result, forests across the planet continue to be cleared in pursuit of financial profits. Across Southeast Asia alone, nearly 68 million hectares (168 million acres) of forest was lost between 2001 and 2023, much of it cleared to make way for logging, plantations and agriculture, according to researchers. However, new research indicates “massive and untapped” conservation potential remains within commercial concessions across the region. The study, published in Nature Communications, analyzed satellite data from 3,754 logging, oil palm, timber and rubber plantation concessions across four countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar. Roughly 42 million hectares (104 million acres) of intact forest was identified inside these concessions — an area larger than the entire country of Malaysia. Losing these forests could lead to emissions in the range of 1.2 gigatons of carbon dioxide over the next three decades, the study says, equivalent to 20% of all industrial carbon dioxide emissions across all 11 ASEAN countries between 2000 and 2023. Protection of forests inside production landscapes, therefore, presents a significant opportunity for conservation, the study authors say, if concession holders could be incentivized to switch from converting land to protecting it.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/carbon-markets-alone-wont-keep-southeast-asias-forests-standing-study-says/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New analysis breaks down 2025 Amazon deforestation, with good news and bad news</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/new-analysis-breaks-down-2025-amazon-deforestation-with-good-news-and-bad-news/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Jun 2026 15:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Beef, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Fires, Forest Destruction, Forests, Heatwave, Industrial Agriculture, Land Use Change, Logging, Meat, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Secondary Forests, Soy, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Each year, researchers at the University of Maryland’s GLAD Lab in the U.S. develop one of the most important data sets on global forest loss. The data is derived from NASA and European Space Agency satellite imagery and, in the Amazon Rainforest, often helps environmental groups and government officials make decisions about conservation. The figures [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Each year, researchers at the University of Maryland’s GLAD Lab in the U.S. develop one of the most important data sets on global forest loss. The data is derived from NASA and European Space Agency satellite imagery and, in the Amazon Rainforest, often helps environmental groups and government officials make decisions about conservation. The figures for 2025 were published at the end of April, following months of processing and quality checks. But a comprehensive analysis, highlighting year-on-year trends and hotspots, was only recently released by Mapping of the Andes Amazon Project (MAAP), an Amazon Conservation initiative to track forest loss in the Amazon basin. While the data suggests that several metrics for measuring forest loss are down from previous years, they’re still concerningly high overall, researchers said. Agriculture, cattle ranching and mining continue to destroy hundreds of thousands of hectares of primary forest, often in protected areas and Indigenous territory. “I have a hard time saying it’s good news if deforestation is lower than previous years, but was still a million [hectares],” Matt Finer, MAAP director and senior research specialist, told Mongabay. He said it’s far from the zero-deforestation rate needed in the region. A: Soy frontiers of southeast Brazil; B: Soy frontiers of southern Bolivia; C: Trans-Amazonian Highway; D: BR-364; E: Agricultural areas in central Peru; F: Arc of deforestation in northwest Colombia; G: Gold mining areas in southern and central Peru: H: Gold mining areas in northern Ecuador; I: Gold mining areas in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname; J: Indigenous&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/new-analysis-breaks-down-2025-amazon-deforestation-with-good-news-and-bad-news/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-321708</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Freeing trees of their liana load can boost carbon sequestration in tropical forests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/freeing-trees-of-their-liana-load-can-boost-carbon-sequestration-in-tropical-forests/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Feb 2024 22:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mark Hillsdon]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Regenerative landscapes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Belize, Central America, Gabon, Indonesia, South America, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Loss, Forests, Global Warming, Green, Logging, Mitigation, Orangutans, Primates, Rainforests, Research, Secondary Forests, Sustainable Forest Management, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The liana is an opportunistic plant, a vine that, in the right conditions, can smother a tree as it hitches a ride up to the top of the forest canopy. It’s estimated that 250 million hectares of managed forest are affected by rampant liana growth, as the plant thrives where the forest floor has been [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The liana is an opportunistic plant, a vine that, in the right conditions, can smother a tree as it hitches a ride up to the top of the forest canopy. It’s estimated that 250 million hectares of managed forest are affected by rampant liana growth, as the plant thrives where the forest floor has been disturbed by clearing activities like logging, as well as natural events such as wildfires and hurricanes. &#8220;Liana&#8221; is a catch-all name for long, woody vining plants, many species of which are native to tropical forests around the world. While the negative effects of lianas on tree growth have been known for some time, a study published in 2023 in the journal Forest Ecology and Management has revealed the carbon benefits of stripping back these woody vines and allowing the trees to grow unencumbered. The study found that in selectively logged forests, where certain tree species are commercially cut and the rest left standing as an alternative to clear-cut felling, freeing just five trees per hectare of their liana load across the 250 million hectares of degraded managed land could remove 800 million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere over 30 years — averaging 3.2 tons of CO2 removed per hectare — as well as boosting sustainable timber production. And all at a cost of just $1.50 per hectare. The research is based on managed forests that have previously been disturbed, explains Ethan Belair, a natural climate solutions forester at The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and one&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/freeing-trees-of-their-liana-load-can-boost-carbon-sequestration-in-tropical-forests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-278479</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Oil palm and balsa plantations trigger deforestation in Ecuadorian Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/oil-palm-and-balsa-plantations-trigger-deforestation-in-ecuadorian-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Aug 2023 09:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ana Cristina Alvarado]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation and Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Ecuador, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Conservation, Crime, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Industrial Agriculture, Industry, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforest Destruction, Roads, Secondary Forests, Social Justice, and Threats To Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the Ecuadorian Amazon, a region marked by half a century of extractive industries, mainly oil, deforestation is a constant. In recent years, a new threat to the conservation of these forests has emerged: the cultivation of balsa and oil palm under a contract farming model, that is, production developed under a prior agreement between [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the Ecuadorian Amazon, a region marked by half a century of extractive industries, mainly oil, deforestation is a constant. In recent years, a new threat to the conservation of these forests has emerged: the cultivation of balsa and oil palm under a contract farming model, that is, production developed under a prior agreement between farmers and buyers. This was corroborated by a team from Mongabay Latam and La Barra Espaciadora that visited the “Via Auca” and “Via a Loreto” roads in the center-south and west of the province of Orellana. The team traveled to some of the areas that were deforested between January and March 2023, according to information from Global Forest Watch (GFW). &#8220;Ecuador is among the five most deforested countries in Latin America,&#8221; said Natalia Greene, vice president of the Ecuadorian Coordinating Body of Organizations for the Defense of Nature and the Environment (CEDENMA). The epicenters of deforestation, Greene said, are around the large extractive projects for which roads have been built since the mid-20th century. This infrastructure has given free rein to loggers and settlers seeking land for agricultural and livestock production. In Orellana, which is in northeastern Ecuador, these areas border Yasuní National Park and the foothills of the Andes Mountains, where there are diverse and endemic ecosystems. &#8220;Their destruction can cause habitat fragmentation and species extinction,&#8221; Greene said. However, the country’s Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition (MAATE) doesn’t think so, according to their response to a request for information for this article:&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/oil-palm-and-balsa-plantations-trigger-deforestation-in-ecuadorian-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-271568</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Young forests can help heal tropical aquatic ecosystems: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/young-forests-can-help-heal-tropical-aquatic-ecosystems-study/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Nov 2021 00:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Latin America, Panama, and Tropics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agroecology, Cattle, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystems, Environment, Forests, Freshwater, Green, Habitat, Landscape Restoration, Microorganisms, Old Growth Forests, Pasture, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Reforestation, Research, Restoration, Rivers, Secondary Forests, Solutions, Tropical Forests, and Tropics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists have long identified a link between livestock production and deforestation, with reams of research showing the detrimental effect of agricultural activities on natural resources. Little is known, however, about how much these practices impact water microbial communities — the tiny organisms that maintain water quality by cycling nutrients and energy. A new study published [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists have long identified a link between livestock production and deforestation, with reams of research showing the detrimental effect of agricultural activities on natural resources. Little is known, however, about how much these practices impact water microbial communities — the tiny organisms that maintain water quality by cycling nutrients and energy. A new study published in Scientific Reports by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) focused on just that: the specific impact of different land uses, such as cattle pastures and secondary forests, on bacterial communities in the water column of four streams in central Panama. The findings reveal key insights into nature’s ability to recover from harsh environmental changes, such as land degradation and deforestation, which are largely a consequence of human-related agricultural practices. Reforesting the land, the researchers say, can restore many aspects of water quality, allowing bacterial communities to thrive again, which directly benefits both human health and the environment. Cattle graze along a stream in Colombia. Image by Rhett Butler/Mongabay. “Microbes are the biological engines that transform the world,” Bob Hilderbrand, associate professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, who was not involved in the study, told Mongabay. “They can be particularly important for removing excess nutrients, such as pollutants, and even for breaking down toxic pollutants.” Assessing the ecological conditions of freshwater streams, specifically by identifying microbe distribution and diversity, helps researchers identify the impact of human-related activities on the environment, and can therefore aid governments and policymakers by informing&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/young-forests-can-help-heal-tropical-aquatic-ecosystems-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-249643</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Remnant forests struggle to survive amid oil palm plantations, study shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/remnant-forests-struggle-to-survive-amid-oil-palm-plantations-study-shows/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Sep 2021 14:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forests, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforests, Secondary Forests, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Most forest trees that persist in areas dominated by oil palm plantations die before they can mature, a new study shows, emphasizing the urgency of conserving or restoring forested areas to ensure the promotion of biodiversity and other ecosystem services. The study, published in journal Global Ecology and Conservation, looked at the density [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Most forest trees that persist in areas dominated by oil palm plantations die before they can mature, a new study shows, emphasizing the urgency of conserving or restoring forested areas to ensure the promotion of biodiversity and other ecosystem services. The study, published in journal Global Ecology and Conservation, looked at the density and distribution patterns of trees across a 1,120-hectare (2,768-acre) swath in the lowlands of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island. Oil palm plantations blanket this landscape. But using a drone to map the area, researchers identified a scattering of rainforest trees amid this monoculture, at about six to eight trees per 100 oil palms. But they’re distributed unevenly. In older plantations, located in the southeastern part of the study location, the researchers found the interiors of the plantations there to “barely contain scattered trees,” at 4.6 trees per hectare. In the northwestern part of the study area, where oil palm cultivation is newer, there were three times as many forest trees remaining, about 14 trees per hectare. “This might indicate that tree density declines over time in conventional oil palm monocultures,” the researchers said in the study. There are a number of possible reasons for why there are fewer forest trees inside older plantations. These include consistent removal of forest remnants, suppression of natural tree regeneration, and absence of new tree plantings. Trees also tend to grow more slowly near faster-growing oil palms, which outcompete them for sunlight, water and nutrients. But a lack of data on plantation&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/remnant-forests-struggle-to-survive-amid-oil-palm-plantations-study-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-247484</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Forest restoration, not just halting deforestation, vital to Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/forest-restoration-not-just-halting-deforestation-vital-to-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Jul 2020 12:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sarah Sax]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Conservation, Deforestation, Farming, forest degradation, Forest Destruction, Forest Fragmentation, Forest Loss, Forests, Industrial Agriculture, International Trade, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Research, Secondary Forests, Soy, Sustainability, Sustainable Forest Management, Trade, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil is well positioned to benefit from forest restoration and agroforestry, but policies in states like Maranhão fail to address that potential and could contribute to further deforestation.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agribusiness is one of the main drivers of forest loss in the state of Maranhão. Here, a lone tree stands on a patch of deforested land in the the Amazon. Image by Raymony Tayllon. As the world’s remaining old-growth forests are isolated in protected areas, or increasingly found only in remote places, secondary forests — forests that regrow in deforested or degraded areas — are becoming a crucial player in the fight to mitigate climate change and restore ecosystem services. But these secondary forests are often not seen as worth saving, nor are they offered the same protections as old-growth, with resulting negative consequences for carbon sequestration, water cycling, biodiversity conservation, and human use and subsistence. A recently published viewpoint paper by researchers from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and the University of Maranhão published in the Land Use Policy journal draws attention to the critical environmental role these forests play and the threats they face in the Brazilian state of Maranhão. Map showing the Legal Amazonia portion of Maranhão state and the current status of its forests. Graphic by Celso H. L. Silva Junior. Sources: INPE and MapBiomas. Amazon secondary forest in need of protection Maranhão state is located in the transition zone between the Amazon biome and the Cerrado biome (the country’s tropical savanna). The state’s western section is also included within the boundaries of Legal Amazonia, a national government designation that encompasses all or part of nine Brazilian states. Maranhão’s remaining Amazon forests, which hold&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/forest-restoration-not-just-halting-deforestation-vital-to-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-232810</doi>				</item>
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					<title>For Mexico’s forgotten cloud forests, sustainability and protection are key</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/for-mexicos-forgotten-cloud-forests-sustainability-and-protection-are-key/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Mar 2020 06:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Thelma Gómez Durán]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Maria Angeles Salazar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Latin America and Mexico]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Cloud Forests, Conservation, Environment, Forests, Secondary Forests, and Sustainable Forest Management]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2009, scientists estimated that Mexico’s tropical montane cloud forests — hillside woodlands blanketed in fog and rain — were down to 28% of their original extent. Fifty-three percent of what was left was considered secondary forest, regenerated from primary forest that had been cleared for agriculture or lost due to fires or storms. Conserving [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2009, scientists estimated that Mexico’s tropical montane cloud forests — hillside woodlands blanketed in fog and rain — were down to 28% of their original extent. Fifty-three percent of what was left was considered secondary forest, regenerated from primary forest that had been cleared for agriculture or lost due to fires or storms. Conserving these cloud forests, even the secondary ones, maintains tree cover and protects mountain basins and soil from erosion. It also helps forest corridors develop, connecting the landscape for wildlife to roam. It takes between 10 and 20 years for a secondary cloud forest to grow. Image by Tarin Toledo. Despite their importance, these ecosystems have largely been forgotten and poorly studied; and, to some extent, they are disappearing. In Mexico, they are not recognized in legal frameworks for forest use, resulting in a dearth of programs aimed at addressing their sustainable management. To raise awareness of these forests and to promote actions that support their conservation and management, researchers Tarin Toledo and Luciana Porter of the Institute of Ecology and Patricia Gerez of the Institute of Biotechnology and Applied Ecology of the University of Veracruz in Mexico conducted a study published by the Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Silviculture. The research and resulting recommendations arose from an April 2019 workshop attended by academics, forest technicians, members of civil society organizations and owners of land with secondary forests. Secondary forests, no less important Cloud forests typically occur in areas that are foggy for much of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/for-mexicos-forgotten-cloud-forests-sustainability-and-protection-are-key/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-227585</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Carbon uptake slower than expected in Amazon secondary forest: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/02/carbon-uptake-slower-than-expected-in-amazon-secondary-forest-study/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Feb 2020 12:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forests, Green, Land Use Change, Primary Forests, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Research, Saving Rainforests, Secondary Forests, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[A degraded secondary forest in Brazil stores carbon at only twice the rate of primary forest, compared to up to 11 times elsewhere; scientists could be overestimating Amazon carbon storage capacity.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Degraded forest land in the Brazilian Amazon. Carbon uptake and storage in tropical primary and secondary forests varies place to place depending upon soil properties, climatic conditions, and previous land use, among other factors. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay. Forests capture carbon from the air and store it as they grow, providing an essential service to a world where humanity is rapidly increasing atmospheric CO2 levels and escalating the climate crisis. Secondary forests — forests that are growing back after clearing — are known to have a high potential for carbon capture, with some studies suggesting that the carbon uptake of these regenerating forests can be up to 11 times that of primary forests. However, that isn’t always true — which could be bad news for humanity. In a study recently published in the journal Ecology, researchers found that secondary forests in the Bragantina region of Pará state in the Brazilian Amazon possessed carbon accumulation rates only around twice that recorded in primary forests — much lower than expected. “Our results offered a much less optimistic picture than other studies, including our own studies for other regions of Pará,” said lead author Fernando Elias, a PhD candidate at the Federal University of Pará. “We cannot always assume that secondary forests will develop quickly or completely.” The Bragantina region has been used agriculturally for hundreds of years. Today, almost no primary forest remains in the landscape. And, according to the study, it is unlikely these forests will return to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/02/carbon-uptake-slower-than-expected-in-amazon-secondary-forest-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-226889</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Brazil to receive first-ever results-based REDD+ payment, but concerns remain</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/brazil-to-receive-first-ever-results-based-redd-payment-but-concerns-remain/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Mar 2019 13:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sarah Sax]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, data, Deforestation, Emission Reduction, Environment, Forests, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Mitigation, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Redd, Remote Sensing, Research, Satellite Imagery, Secondary Forests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[GLO-4060 QZA-16/0047.4]]>
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							<![CDATA[The United Nations’ Green Climate Fund (GCF) has accepted the first proposal for REDD+ results-based payouts from Brazil, effectively paying the country for reducing its deforestation rates in 2014 and 2015, as compared to the 1996-2010 average. In return for around 19 million tons of emissions reductions, the GCF has agreed to pay Brazil $96 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The United Nations’ Green Climate Fund (GCF) has accepted the first proposal for REDD+ results-based payouts from Brazil, effectively paying the country for reducing its deforestation rates in 2014 and 2015, as compared to the 1996-2010 average. In return for around 19 million tons of emissions reductions, the GCF has agreed to pay Brazil $96 million, which the country says it will use to launch a program called Floresta+ aimed at ecosystem restoration, the provision of environmental services, and strengthening the country’s REDD+ strategy. At the GCF board meeting held earlier this week during which the decision was made, board members reportedly alluded to another, larger proposal that may be submitted at future GCF meetings. This proposal is expected to request payment for a further 47 million tons of emissions reductions made in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Many GCF board members are calling the move a “turning-point” for REDD+ and a historic moment for the conservation scheme that mitigates carbon emissions by paying countries to conserve their forests. However, some observing civil society organizations called to postpone the proposal. They drew attention to issues with how the baseline measurements against which deforestation reductions — called “forest reference emission levels,” or FREL — are calculated, whether the results will be permanent, and whether Brazil can adhere to social and environmental safeguards given the recent change in government. Light filters through Brazilian rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. While other countries gear up to submit their own proposals for portions of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/brazil-to-receive-first-ever-results-based-redd-payment-but-concerns-remain/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-216052</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New study finds young forests have a huge climate impact</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/new-study-finds-young-forests-have-a-huge-climate-impact/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Feb 2019 20:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Fires, Forests, Global Warming, Green, Habitat, Habitat Loss, Logging, Mitigation, Old Growth Forests, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Reforestation, Restoration, Roads, Secondary Forests, and Temperate Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forests store vast quantities of carbon and play a huge role in the world’s carbon cycle – as well as in human hopes of mitigating global warming. Tropical rainforests, the revered “lungs of the planet,” were once thought to take the cake when it comes to carbon sequestration. But a new study adds to a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forests store vast quantities of carbon and play a huge role in the world’s carbon cycle – as well as in human hopes of mitigating global warming. Tropical rainforests, the revered “lungs of the planet,” were once thought to take the cake when it comes to carbon sequestration. But a new study adds to a growing body of evidence that other types of forest may actually be better at sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere. Specifically it finds that young temperate forests may be more effective carbon sinks than are old rainforests. Researchers at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) in the UK modeled carbon storage in old-growth and regrown forests between 1981 and 2010 using recent data on forest ages as well as the latest global land cover change dataset produced by the University of Maryland in the U.S. Their results, published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reveal that intact, old-growth forests sequestered 950 million to 1.11 billion metric tons of carbon per year while younger forests – those that have been growing less than 140 years – stored between 1.17 and 1.66 billion metric tons per year. While regrown forests may be able to sequester carbon more quickly, old-growth rainforests are still the winner when it comes to biodiversity. This isn’t the first time younger, regenerated forests have attracted the climate spotlight. Another UK study, published just last month in Quaternary Science Reviews, found that a period of cooling during the 16th&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/new-study-finds-young-forests-have-a-huge-climate-impact/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Secondary forests in Costa Rica are re-cleared within decades</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/secondary-forests-in-costa-rica-are-re-cleared-within-decades/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Dec 2018 12:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rodrigo Pérez Ortega]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Costa Rica, Latin America, and Mesoamerica]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Recovery, Forests, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Secondary Forests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Secondary forests — those that regrow naturally after being cleared or degraded — constitute more than half of existing tropical forests. When they are old enough, they support a wide range of species and store carbon at a higher rate than old-growth forest because the trees grow more rapidly. But in southern Costa Rica, a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Secondary forests — those that regrow naturally after being cleared or degraded — constitute more than half of existing tropical forests. When they are old enough, they support a wide range of species and store carbon at a higher rate than old-growth forest because the trees grow more rapidly. But in southern Costa Rica, a country with strong environmental commitments, young forests are ephemeral, a new study claims. When Leighton Reid, a restoration ecologist at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, and his colleagues studied the history of secondary forests in a region of Coto Brus canton, Costa Rica, they found that half of them were re-cleared within 20 years. And within 54 years, 85 percent of these young forests were gone, the team reported recently in Conservation Letters. “I wasn’t expecting this at all,” said Reid, who has worked in Costa Rica for more than a decade studying tropical forest restoration. “I was shocked.” A trail through secondary forest at the Las Cruces Biological Station in southern Costa Rica. Photo by J. Leighton Reid. Previous estimates have suggested that 20 years is not enough time for a secondary forest to regain old-growth levels of biomass and biodiversity. To study the persistence of these young forests, researchers used aerial photographs taken from 1947 through 2014 across a 320 square kilometer (123.5 square miles) area in Coto Brus. The photos have a spatial resolution of 10 meters, sharper than the 30-meter resolution of Landsat satellite data other scientists have used&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/secondary-forests-in-costa-rica-are-re-cleared-within-decades/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/fire-fundamentally-alters-carbon-dynamics-in-the-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Oct 2018 09:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Drought, Ecology, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fires, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forests, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Logging, Plants, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Research, Saving Rainforests, Secondary Forests, Slash-and-burn, Solutions, Subsistence Agriculture, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[GLO-4060 QZA-16/0047.3]]>
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							<![CDATA[The fires closing in on Erika Berenguer’s research site in Brazil’s eastern Amazon were unlike anything she had seen in years working in the forest. Smoke hung heavy the air. “I couldn’t see 10 meters in front of me,” Berenguer, an ecologist at Lancaster University and the University of Oxford in the U.K., said in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The fires closing in on Erika Berenguer’s research site in Brazil’s eastern Amazon were unlike anything she had seen in years working in the forest. Smoke hung heavy the air. “I couldn’t see 10 meters in front of me,” Berenguer, an ecologist at Lancaster University and the University of Oxford in the U.K., said in an interview. “We were right in the middle of a giant barbecue of the world’s largest tropical rainforest,” helped along by an intense drought during the 2015-2016 El Niño. A fire line in the forest. Image by Erika Berenguer. As the flames lapped at her boots, she worried that more than five years of fieldwork toward her doctorate was literally going up in the smoke around her. “I’m not only losing my country’s forests,” the Rio de Janeiro native said she remembers thinking. “I’m also losing my plots and my own work, so it was all very emotional until I got out of the forest.” Once she’d had a chance to huddle with her colleagues, though, she realized, “We can actually use this data to investigate what are the impacts of the fire into carbon cycling.” Smoke billowing into the atmosphere from the 2015 fires in the Amazon. Image by Adam Ronan. They had data on plots before and after the fires, and on some plots that didn’t burn, leading to new revelations into the Amazon forest’s response to such a destructive force. Publishing their results in a series of three papers Oct. 8 in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/fire-fundamentally-alters-carbon-dynamics-in-the-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Scientists urge greater protection of Brazil’s secondary forests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/scientists-urge-greater-protection-of-brazils-secondary-forests/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Oct 2018 09:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Beetles, Biodiversity, Birds, Cattle, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forests, Infrastructure, Insects, Logging, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Research, Roads, Secondary Forests, Trees, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[G-1710-55576]]>
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							<![CDATA[With around half the world’s forest cover cleared or otherwise degraded at some point in the recent past, the new forests that pop up to replace them – called secondary forests – are often seen by conservationists as the next best thing. But just how well secondary forests compare to primary forests in terms of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[With around half the world’s forest cover cleared or otherwise degraded at some point in the recent past, the new forests that pop up to replace them – called secondary forests – are often seen by conservationists as the next best thing. But just how well secondary forests compare to primary forests in terms of biodiversity and carbon storage has been a bit of a mystery. Now, new research published in Global Change Biology sheds more light on the ecological value of secondary forests. It finds that even after 40 years of recovery, fast-growing tropical forests in Brazil house significantly fewer species and sequester less carbon than their primary counterparts. The study’s authors say that in order to meet their full ecological potential, established secondary forests need greater protection to allow them to recover more completely. The study was conducted by a team of scientists from institutions in Europe, Brazil and Australia. They measured carbon content and recorded 1,600 plant, bird and dung beetle species in 59 naturally regenerating secondary forests of varying ages and 30 undisturbed primary forests in the eastern Amazon region of Brazil. Secondary forest in the Santarém region in eastern Amazonia. Photo by Adam Ronan Abandoned pasture in Paragominas quickly reverts to secondary forest. Photo by Alexander C. Lees/Manchester Metropolitan University) According to Gareth Lennox, a senior research associate at Lancaster University in the UK and lead author of the study, deforestation starting ramping up in this part of Brazil in the 1970s with the construction&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/scientists-urge-greater-protection-of-brazils-secondary-forests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The diversity of biodiversity: Connecting shrews, ants and slime molds with carbon storage</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/the-diversity-of-biodiversity-connecting-shrews-ants-and-slime-molds-with-carbon-storage/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Jun 2018 02:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Joshua Parfitt]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, and Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Ants, Biodiversity, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forests, Insects, Logging, Mammals, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Research, Secondary Forests, Timber, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Tropical forests are key defenders in the fight against climate change. They lock down around 25 percent of the world’s carbon in their canopies, trunks and soils, a function so crucial that they play a prominent role in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Research also shows that high-carbon forests can anchor richer ecosystems. This is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Tropical forests are key defenders in the fight against climate change. They lock down around 25 percent of the world’s carbon in their canopies, trunks and soils, a function so crucial that they play a prominent role in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Research also shows that high-carbon forests can anchor richer ecosystems. This is a win-win situation for climate mitigation and wildlife conservation. However, according to a recent study published in the journal Science Advances, the riches of high-carbon stocks are not shared equally among the various species found in forests. Forests that are in the process of growing back — for example, after they’ve been logged for timber — seem to provide ideal conditions for pioneer species not found in old-growth forests. A regrowth forest canopy. Image by Frederik Van de Perre/University of Antwerp. “In the case of slime molds, we think that this less-humid environment in regrowth forests might be a more optimal growing situation,” said Frederik Van de Perre, a biologist and doctoral student at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and the lead author of the paper. Earlier studies have detected positive links between biodiversity and above-ground carbon storage. However, in one study, this positive effect was only visible when researchers drilled down to the relatively fine scale of 0.1 hectares (0.25 acres). According to a 2017 paper by ecologist Martin Sullivan of the University of Leeds in the U.K. and his colleagues, published in the journal Scientific Reports, the biodiversity-carbon relationship remains unknown at scales relevant&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/the-diversity-of-biodiversity-connecting-shrews-ants-and-slime-molds-with-carbon-storage/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bornean bantengs feeling the heat in logged forests, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/bornean-bantengs-feeling-the-heat-in-logged-forests-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Apr 2018 10:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Cattle, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, forest degradation, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, Logging, Mammals, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Secondary Forests, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[G-1710-55576]]>
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							<![CDATA[The endangered wild cattle of Malaysian Borneo have eased back on their daytime activities because of higher temperatures brought on by loss of forest cover — a finding that has important implications for the species’ well-being. The findings, in a report published April 12 in the open-access journal PLOS One, showed that recently logged forests in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The endangered wild cattle of Malaysian Borneo have eased back on their daytime activities because of higher temperatures brought on by loss of forest cover — a finding that has important implications for the species’ well-being. The findings, in a report published April 12 in the open-access journal PLOS One, showed that recently logged forests in Sabah state were hotter, reaching temperatures of up to 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit), for longer periods of time in the day than forests that had experienced regrowth for longer. This temperature differential, it turns out, affects the activity of the Bornean banteng (Bos javanicus lowi). The researchers, from the Sabah Wildlife Department and the Danau Girang Field Centre (DGFC) in Malaysia, Cardiff University in the U.K., and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany, carried out the study from 2011 to 2013 in three secondary protected forests in Sabah: the Malua Forest Reserve, Maliau Basin Conservation Area Buffer Zones, and Tabin Wildlife Reserve. Bantengs foraging in the early morning in an open degraded area. Image courtesy of Danau Girang Field Centre (DGFC). Each of these areas has experienced extensive and repeated removal of timber, and each also have internal logging road networks with exposed and compacted substrate resulting from the use of heavy machinery. The last logging activities recorded in these areas occurred six, 17 and 23 years ago, respectively. The paper found that banteng populations in the more recently logged forests tended to show reduced activity and to avoid&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/bornean-bantengs-feeling-the-heat-in-logged-forests-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Sarawak makes 80% forest preservation commitment, but some have doubts</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/sarawak-makes-80-forest-preservation-commitment-but-some-have-doubts/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Mar 2018 16:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Illegal Logging, Industrial Agriculture, Logging, Monkeys, Montane Forests, Orangutans, Palm Oil, Plantations, Primary Forests, Primates, Rainforests, Secondary Forests, Timber, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[G-1710-55576]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Malaysian state of Sarawak is committing to the preservation of 80 percent of its land area as primary and secondary forest, according to an announcement by Sarawak Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg made February 26 in the city of Kuching. But some in the conservation community are expressing doubt that these [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Malaysian state of Sarawak is committing to the preservation of 80 percent of its land area as primary and secondary forest, according to an announcement by Sarawak Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg made February 26 in the city of Kuching. But some in the conservation community are expressing doubt that these promises will come to fruition. Occupying the northern coast of Borneo, Sarawak’s rainforests are home to unique, disappearing species like endangered proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) and critically endangered Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus). But plantation agriculture, timber harvesting and other development pressures have supplanted many areas of Sarawak forest, with data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) finding natural forest covered just under 65 percent of the state in 2010. Other research indicates the amount of 2010 forest coverage may be closer to 57 percent – much of that heavily degraded by logging, according a 2013 assessment. Sarawak&#8217;s remaining forests are home to threatened species like proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus). Research indicates much of Sarawak&#8217;s rainforest has been degraded by logging and other human activities. Photo by John Cannon. But in a speech presented to attendees of a business networking event called The Sarawak Dialogue, Chief Minister Abang Johari indicated the state will be working to preserve and restore the state’s rainforests. “Sarawak is a small state but it has its obligation in its role to preserve the environment,” Abang Johari said, as reported by regional media outlets. “We make sure that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/sarawak-makes-80-forest-preservation-commitment-but-some-have-doubts/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Oil palm, rubber could trigger &#8216;storm&#8217; of deforestation in the Congo Basin</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/oil-palm-rubber-could-trigger-storm-of-deforestation-in-the-congo-basin/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Mar 2018 13:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, and Congo Basin]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Chimpanzees, Conservation, Corruption, data, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Gorillas, Illegal Logging, Logging, Mammals, NGOs, Palm Oil, Parks, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Redd, Remote Sensing, Rubber, Satellite Imagery, Secondary Forests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[GLO-4060 QZA-16/0047.3]]>
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							<![CDATA[Thousands of square kilometers of the world’s second-largest rainforest, the Congo Basin, sit on the verge of destruction, according to a new report released today by Earthsight, the London-based non-profit that investigates global environmental issues. Earthsight documented approximately 500 square kilometers (193 square miles) of deforestation to clear the way for new rubber and oil [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Thousands of square kilometers of the world’s second-largest rainforest, the Congo Basin, sit on the verge of destruction, according to a new report released today by Earthsight, the London-based non-profit that investigates global environmental issues. Earthsight documented approximately 500 square kilometers (193 square miles) of deforestation to clear the way for new rubber and oil palm plantations in Central Africa’s rainforest countries over the past five years. But the team also found that companies in Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hold licenses for industrial agriculture on another 8,400 square kilometers (3,243 square miles) of land. Their research shows that government authorities granted several of these concessions with little regard for transparency, and in some cases in violation of laws written to protect forests, often to devastating effect for local communities. Globally, illegal conversion of forests to agriculture led to nearly half of deforestation in tropical forests between 2000 and 2012. The license area of the Atama oil palm plantation (red) based on the original 2010 contract, overlaid on a map of intact forest landscapes (the most pristine forests remaining) in the Republic of Congo. Image and caption courtesy of Earthsight (map by Global Forest Watch). The low prices that palm oil and rubber fetch on global commodity markets has held conversion in check in DRC for now, said Sam Lawson, Earthsight’s executive director, in an interview. The lack of roads and functioning infrastructure in large parts of the Congo&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/oil-palm-rubber-could-trigger-storm-of-deforestation-in-the-congo-basin/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bornean bearded pigs seen adapting to oil palm habitats, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/bornean-bearded-pigs-seen-adapting-to-oil-palm-habitats-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Mar 2018 10:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forests, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, In-situ Conservation, Mammals, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforests, Secondary Forests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[2017-65500]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bearded pigs in Malaysian Borneo appear to have adapted to oil palm plantations, a key driver of deforestation in the region, but still depend heavily on adjacent forests as their primary habitat, a recent study suggests. The paper, published Feb. 27 in the journal Wildlife Research, described the findings of surveys conducted between February and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bearded pigs in Malaysian Borneo appear to have adapted to oil palm plantations, a key driver of deforestation in the region, but still depend heavily on adjacent forests as their primary habitat, a recent study suggests. The paper, published Feb. 27 in the journal Wildlife Research, described the findings of surveys conducted between February and April 2014 in landscapes surrounding Danau Girang Field Centre in the Lower Kinabatangan area of eastern Sabah state. The site included 10 protected areas, ranging in size from 12 to 74 square kilometers (4.6 to 28.5 square miles), but 48 percent of the territory was occupied by oil palm plantations. The study found that populations of the Bornean bearded pig (Sus barbatus) were present in all forested sites and 80 percent of the surveyed oil palm plantations, but that the animals were engaged in far more activities, such as wallowing and nesting, in the forests than the plantations. A small group of bearded pigs looking for roots in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary. Bearded pigs are consistently present in both degraded forest fragments and adjacent oil palm plantations in the Kinabatangan area, but use forests much more often and for more behaviors. Photo courtesy of Danau Girang Field Centre (DGFC). The researchers noted that 95 percent of the bearded pigs in the study were considered to be in “good” or “very good” physical condition. “Consistent bearded pig presence in oil palm is potentially an indication of successful adaptation to agricultural expansion in the study area,” said&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/bornean-bearded-pigs-seen-adapting-to-oil-palm-habitats-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Estonia’s trees: Valued resource or squandered second chance?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/estonias-trees-valued-resource-or-squandered-second-chance/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Oct 2017 17:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rachel Fritts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Forests, Law, Logging, Old Growth Forests, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Secondary Forests, Timber Laws, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[When the last of the Russian troops pulled out of Estonia in 1994, for many their departure was bittersweet. While most Estonians were eager to join the Western world and reestablish cultural ties with Finland and other Nordic countries, the country’s transition from communism to capitalism was hindered by poverty, cultural barriers, and dilapidated infrastructure. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When the last of the Russian troops pulled out of Estonia in 1994, for many their departure was bittersweet. While most Estonians were eager to join the Western world and reestablish cultural ties with Finland and other Nordic countries, the country’s transition from communism to capitalism was hindered by poverty, cultural barriers, and dilapidated infrastructure. Today, however, Estonia appears to be coming into its own. The country has joined the EU, ranks 30th in the world on the Human Development Index, and has one of the fastest-growing economies in Europe. Estonia now has the autonomy to decide how it is going to allocate its resources, and how it wants to shape its identity on the international stage. Central to this decision is one notable parting gift left by the country’s Soviet occupiers: trees. A protected old-growth forest in Estonia. According to Global Forest Watch, 3 percent of the country’s forests are primary forests like this one. Photo by Asko Lõhmus. Trees are “one of the few positive things inherited from the age of Soviet domination,” said Linda-Mari Väli, founder of Helping Estonia’s Forests, a conservation-oriented citizens’ initiative. While Estonia is historically a tree-dense country, by the early 20th century much of its forestland had been converted to farms. Under Soviet rule, however, private landownership, and private farms, were abandoned for large collectives. By the time Estonia gained independence, the forest had reclaimed much of its former territory. The country now has over 50 percent tree cover, according to satellite data from&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/estonias-trees-valued-resource-or-squandered-second-chance/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Orangutans find home in degraded forests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/orangutans-find-home-in-degraded-forests/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Jul 2017 02:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Great Apes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animal Behavior, Animal Intelligence, Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Drivers Of Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forest Fragmentation, Forests, Fragmentation, Great Apes, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Hunting, LiDAR, Logging, Mammals, Megafauna, Old Growth Forests, Orangutans, Palm Oil, Parks, Primary Forests, Primates, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Research, Rivers, Secondary Forests, Threats To Rainforests, Timber, Tropical Forests, Tropics, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists and conservationists have long believed that the rapid loss of Southeast Asia’s old-growth, “primary” rainforests in recent decades would leave one of its most iconic inhabitants, the orangutan, with no place to go. The evidence seemed clear: In places where people take over the rainforest, orangutan populations tend to drop off. But new research [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists and conservationists have long believed that the rapid loss of Southeast Asia’s old-growth, “primary” rainforests in recent decades would leave one of its most iconic inhabitants, the orangutan, with no place to go. The evidence seemed clear: In places where people take over the rainforest, orangutan populations tend to drop off. But new research on the island of Borneo demonstrates that orangutans can survive in human-altered rainforests, pointing to the underappreciated value of these “degraded” lands. “If species like orangutans can survive in degraded forests, this means that, even after the forest is degraded, it is still worth protecting,” said Marc Ancrenaz, a biologist and the director at the orangutan-focused conservation organization HUTAN. He and his colleagues published their findings online Tuesday with the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A young Bornean orangutan in Sabah. Photo by John C. Cannon. Ancrenaz has been studying the Critically Endangered Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) in the Malaysian state of Sabah for two decades along the banks of the Lower Kinabatangan River, an area that bears many of the signs of human use. Its forests are dotted with human settlements. They have been logged – in some cases multiple times – and oil palm plantations dominate much of the landscape. And yet, a sizeable population of orangutans in the region has persisted. To understand how these animals have survived the changes from the dense rainforests that once covered much of the island to what exists now, Ancrenaz partnered with researchers from the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/orangutans-find-home-in-degraded-forests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Secondary forests offer big opportunity to fight global warming</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/high-levels-of-carbon-uptake-in-secondary-forests-can-help-identify-conservation-priorities/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Feb 2016 11:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Global, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, carbon, Cattle, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Logging, Old Growth Forests, Rainforests, Ranching, Redd, Reforestation, Secondary Forests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Secondary forests are known to sequester carbon more rapidly than old growth forests, meaning they have an important role to play in our efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change. But new research shows that some regenerating forests might have an even higher rate of carbon uptake than previously thought, which can help identify [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Secondary forests are known to sequester carbon more rapidly than old growth forests, meaning they have an important role to play in our efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change. But new research shows that some regenerating forests might have an even higher rate of carbon uptake than previously thought, which can help identify the most important conservation priorities. In an article published by the journal Nature this week, an international team of scientists led by researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands summarized the results of their study focused on secondary forests recovering from being almost completely destroyed for agriculture or cattle ranching. The researchers say that their results contradict previous studies that suggested tropical forests may collapse or switch to an alternative stable state once a certain threshold of disturbance is reached. “Our study shows that forests can be resilient, and that their biomass resilience strongly depends on water availability,” they write in Nature. “By mapping potential for biomass recovery across the Neotropics, attention can be focused on particular areas that should be conserved or treated with extra caution because they are more difficult to restore (slow recovery).” Map credit: Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature16512 The team analyzed the recovery of above-ground biomass in 1,500 forest plots at 45 sites across Latin America and found that carbon uptake is surprisingly fast in these young forests. Lourens Poorter, a professor at Wageningen and lead author of the article, said that after 20 years, secondary forests&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/high-levels-of-carbon-uptake-in-secondary-forests-can-help-identify-conservation-priorities/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-178776</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Regrown rainforests degrade after farm-fallow cycles take hold</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/09/regrown-rainforests-degrade-after-farm-fallow-cycles-take-hold/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Sep 2015 14:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jonathan Galka]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon and Tropics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Degraded Lands, Secondary Forests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Look up; look around. Look to the forests in your community. Odds are, they are secondary-growth forests (SFs), forests that regrow following major disturbances. These forests are becoming more common around the world with every passing day, particularly in the tropics where old-growth forest is often cleared to make way for agriculture. A recent study [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Look up; look around. Look to the forests in your community. Odds are, they are secondary-growth forests (SFs), forests that regrow following major disturbances. These forests are becoming more common around the world with every passing day, particularly in the tropics where old-growth forest is often cleared to make way for agriculture. A recent study shows that without careful management of farming practices, SFs that regrow on agricultural land in the Brazilian Amazon become less resilient and healthy over time. More than 21 percent of areas deforested in the Amazon by 2007 regrew into SFs, making this forest type increasingly important in the function of the Amazonian ecosystem, according to the study&#8217;s lead author, Catarina Jakovac, a forest ecologist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Covering 150,000 square kilometers (58,000 square miles), the majority of these SFs belong to small-scale agricultural operations. The most common small-scale agricultural practice in this region is swidden, or slash-and-burn, farming. The system functions cyclically: a farmer slashes and burns a tract of forest, farms it, then leaves it fallow and moves on to another tract of land. The cycle length varies, with plots left fallow between two and 15 years before they are slashed and burned anew. In the meantime, trees typically dominate fallow land within a year or two, growing into young SFs. Swidden agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon directly following a prescribed burn, allowing farmers to plant desired crops. Photo by Catarina Jakovac. “[S]econdary forests could play an important role in connecting&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/09/regrown-rainforests-degrade-after-farm-fallow-cycles-take-hold/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-140026</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Protecting rainforests could sequester equivalent of a third of global emissions annually</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/06/protecting-rainforests-could-sequester-equivalent-of-a-third-of-global-emissions-annually/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Jun 2014 21:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Peru]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Emissions, climate finance, Conservation, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forest Recovery, Forestry, Forests, Green, Logging, Mitigation, Old Growth Forests, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Redd, Satellite Imagery, and Secondary Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global carbon emissions from human activities. Eliminating deforestation, peatlands and forest degradation, and forest fires in the tropics could reduce global carbon emissions by two billion tons a year, or nearly a fifth, argues a new study published in Global Change Biology. The research, authored by John Grace and Edward Mitchard of the University of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global carbon emissions from human activities. Eliminating deforestation, peatlands and forest degradation, and forest fires in the tropics could reduce global carbon emissions by two billion tons a year, or nearly a fifth, argues a new study published in Global Change Biology. The research, authored by John Grace and Edward Mitchard of the University of Edinburgh and Emanuel Gloor of the University of Leeds, analyzed various emissions sources and sinks across the tropics. They found that carbon emissions from activities that damage and destroy forests are nearly counterbalanced by forest regrowth, reforestation, and afforestation. Cutting destructive activities would therefore be a substantial net gain in efforts to slow climate change. &#8220;If we limit human activity in the tropical forests of the world, this could play a valuable role in helping to curb the rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,&#8221; said Grace, who led the study, in a statement. &#8220;Preventing further losses of carbon from our tropical forests must remain a high priority.&#8221; Rainforests in Borneo store especially large amounts of carbon in their vegetation but are being rapidly destroyed for oil palm plantations and timber production. While protecting forests to mitigate climate change is widely known and is in fact the focus of the U.N. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program, the study offers a more comprehensive breakdown of carbon fluxes in the tropics. For example, Grace and associates estimate that tropical deforestation accounts for roughly eight percent of carbon emissions, while degradation from logging and other&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/06/protecting-rainforests-could-sequester-equivalent-of-a-third-of-global-emissions-annually/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25089</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Leftover trees enhance the biodiversity of new forests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/leftover-trees-enhance-the-biodiversity-of-new-forests/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Mar 2014 20:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Nicholas Barrett]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Tiffany Roufs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Costa Rica]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Recovery, Forests, Green, Rainforests, and Secondary Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Trees left standing after deforestation have a discernible impact on the composition of local biodiversity in secondary growth forests, according to a new study published in PLOS ONE. Researchers working on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica discovered that remnant trees could affect species composition of regenerated forests up to 20 years after being logged. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Trees left standing after deforestation have a discernible impact on the composition of local biodiversity in secondary growth forests, according to a new study published in PLOS ONE. Researchers working on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica discovered that remnant trees could affect species composition of regenerated forests up to 20 years after being logged. When land that was once forest is abandoned after being cleared for timber or agricultural purposes, what emerges is known as a second-growth forest. Such &#8220;secondary forests&#8221; currently account for the majority of woodland in Europe and the U.S. and increasingly in the tropics as old-growth forests are lost. Ecologists have long suspected that remnant trees left over from original forests&#8211;often found in clusters known as “tree islands”&#8211;aid and accelerate the growth and development of secondary forests by altering soil chemistry, producing seeds and attracting small animals that disperse the seeds. The Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / mongabay.com A team of scientists, including Manette Sandor and Robin Chazdon from the University of Connecticut, monitored the biodiversity of small plots of land in a secondary-growth forests that had previously been cleared for cattle pastures. By examining aerial photography and interviewing locals, the researchers were able to ascertain that the areas of woodland were approximately 20-years-old and had been farmed for 20 to 30 years before secondary growth occurred. The researchers chose ten remnant trees visible in old aerial photographs, each 50 meters from the edge of the old growth forest.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/leftover-trees-enhance-the-biodiversity-of-new-forests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25520</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The next best thing: how well do secondary forests preserve biodiversity?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/01/the-next-best-thing-how-well-do-secondary-forests-preserve-biodiversity/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Jan 2014 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Bobbie Edwards]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Tiffany Roufs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, Panama, and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Forests, Green, Old Growth Forests, and Secondary Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Secondary forests, which are areas that were previously cleared of old-growth cover, now comprise the majority of the forested areas in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. A heavily debated issue is to what extent secondary forests are able to contribute to the preservation of biodiversity. In an article published in PLOS ONE, a group [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Secondary forests, which are areas that were previously cleared of old-growth cover, now comprise the majority of the forested areas in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. A heavily debated issue is to what extent secondary forests are able to contribute to the preservation of biodiversity. In an article published in PLOS ONE, a group of researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute led by Michiel van Breugel evaluated the biodiversity preservation potential of secondary forests. However, while they found that secondary forests can provide suitable homes for broad arrays of species, the true biodiversity potential of these forests is often limited by cycles of reclearing. According to the researchers, in tropical regions like Panama’s Agua Salud, where the study was conducted, young secondary forests comprise more land area than do mature forests. Their study examined patterns of how plant species and plant diversity are established over time, both within small areas called “patches” as well as across the larger scale of landscapes. This allowed for a comparison between the processes occurring at both levels. Agua Salud landscape, with a recently slashed and burned secondary forest on the foreground. The forest patch was about 15 years old. Author: Jake Slusser This capacity to compare across areas of varying size and ages was a plus given, “local niche-based processes do not predict landscape scale patterns of diversity and composition nor how these change during succession,” states the study. The Agua Salud Project is located in the watershed of the Panama Canal.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/01/the-next-best-thing-how-well-do-secondary-forests-preserve-biodiversity/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25786</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Tree islands more effective way to replant the world&#8217;s forests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/01/tree-islands-more-effective-way-to-replant-the-worlds-forests/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Jan 2014 13:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Dr Liz Kimbrough]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central America and Costa Rica]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environment, Forest Recovery, Forests, Green, Land Use Change, Rainforests, Reforestation, Secondary Forests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Worldwide, large swaths of land lay barren in the wake of agricultural expansion, and as global forest cover continues to decline, carbon and water cycles, biodiversity, and human health are impacted. But efforts to restore abandoned pastures and agricultural plots back into functioning forest ecosystems are often hindered by high costs and time requirements. Fortunately, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Worldwide, large swaths of land lay barren in the wake of agricultural expansion, and as global forest cover continues to decline, carbon and water cycles, biodiversity, and human health are impacted. But efforts to restore abandoned pastures and agricultural plots back into functioning forest ecosystems are often hindered by high costs and time requirements. Fortunately, scientists have developed a new method for a more cost effective solution to forest restoration, the establishment of &#8220;tree islands.&#8221; Typically, forest restoration involves planting rows of trees, plantation style, which cover the entire restoration site. However, a team of researchers led by Rakan A. Zahawi of Las Cruces Biological Station in Costa Rica and Karen Holl of UC Santa Cruz recently tested an innovative method known as applied nucleation or the &#8220;tree island method&#8221; to facilitate forest recovery. In the tree island method, clusters of trees are spread out across the site instead of covering the whole deforested area. For this study, the researchers tested three different treatments on abandoned pasture plots in Costa Rica: planting tree islands, plantation style planting, and no planting or what is known as &#8220;passive restoration.&#8221; &#8220;We were surprised,&#8221; Karen Holl told mongabay.com, &#8220;that the applied nucleation strategy was as effective in facilitating the natural establishment of forest tree seedlings as planting the entire area with trees, even though we only planted 27% of the trees in the applied nucleation treatment.&#8221; Two-toed sloth hanging out in tree plantation five years after planting began. Photo by: J.L. Reid. The establishment&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/01/tree-islands-more-effective-way-to-replant-the-worlds-forests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25850</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Still hope for tropical biodiversity in human modified landscapes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/still-hope-for-tropical-biodiversity-in-human-modified-landscapes/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Apr 2013 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Dr Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Farming, Fragmentation, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Rainforests, Secondary Forests, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Forest Management, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[As primary forests become increasingly rare and expensive to protect, many ecologists are looking to better management of Human Modified Landscapes (HMLs) to shepherd and shield biodiversity in the tropics. Secondary forests, selectively logged forests and lands devoted to sustainable agriculture already play an important role in conservation efforts. However, the idea that HMLs will [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As primary forests become increasingly rare and expensive to protect, many ecologists are looking to better management of Human Modified Landscapes (HMLs) to shepherd and shield biodiversity in the tropics. Secondary forests, selectively logged forests and lands devoted to sustainable agriculture already play an important role in conservation efforts. However, the idea that HMLs will serve as a &#8220;Noah&#8217;s Ark&#8221; for biodiversity, is controversial. In the 2013 paper, &#8220;On the hope for biodiversity friendly tropical landscapes&#8221; published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, scientists venture into the complex topic of HMLs, setting up a framework that connects disturbance, land use, ecosystem services and biodiversity. The paper also offers a model showing potential outcomes for forests in response to different styles of forest management. &#8220;The most important controversy is that the HML is sometimes assumed by default as viable conservation landscapes, mostly based on the number of species they can harbor at the present,&#8221; lead author Felipe Melo of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, told mongaby.com. &#8220;However, we argue that biodiversity persistence in HML is completely context-dependent.&#8221; Context does seem to be key. Along with human use and disturbance, forest size, type, and the surrounding landscape matrix all affect the biodiversity friendliness of an HML. The landscape matrix is the background cover type in a landscape, the stuff between and around the HMLs. An HML is limited in biodiversity conservation potential by this very matrix. For instance, a forest fragment embedded in a harsh matrix, such as a large clear-cut area,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/still-hope-for-tropical-biodiversity-in-human-modified-landscapes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29249</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Rodents have lowest diversity in primary forests in the Congo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/09/rodents-have-lowest-diversity-in-primary-forests-in-the-congo/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Sep 2012 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Congo Basin, and Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Environment, Forests, Green, Mammals, Old Growth Forests, Primary Forests, Rodents, Secondary Forests, Tropical Conservation Science, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[For many animal families, diversity and abundance rises as one moves away from human-impacted landscapes, like agricultural areas, into untouched places, such as primary rainforests. However, a new study in mongabay.com&#8217;s open access journal Tropical Conservation Science, shows that the inverse can also be true. In this case, scientists working in the Democratic Republic of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For many animal families, diversity and abundance rises as one moves away from human-impacted landscapes, like agricultural areas, into untouched places, such as primary rainforests. However, a new study in mongabay.com&#8217;s open access journal Tropical Conservation Science, shows that the inverse can also be true. In this case, scientists working in the Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s (DRC) Masako Forest found that both rodent diversity and abundance was lowest in primary forest. Capturing over 1,200 rodents across 24 species, scientists found that abundance and diversity were highest in transition areas between secondary forest and fallow cropland and lowest in primary forests. This is not entirely surprising as past studies have found similar results. Many rodents species thrive in human-impacted landscapes. The scientists also found that rodent abundance changed significantly during seasons in secondary forest and fallow cropland. However, in primary forests, seasonality made little difference. Other research has shown that sometimes bird diversity is actually higher in a landscape of forest patches and cropland than in primary rainforests. Still, primary forests often contains specialist species found no-where else. CITATION: Iyongo Waya Mongo, L., Visser, M., De Cannière, C., Verheyen, E., Dudu Akaibe, B., Ulyel Ali-Patho, J., and Bogaert, J. 2012. Anthropisation et effets de lisière : impacts sur la diversité des rongeurs dans la Réserve Forestière de Masako (Kisangani, R.D. Congo). Tropical Conservation Science Vol. 5(3):270-283. Related articles Bizarre new rodent discovered in Indonesia has only 2 teeth (08/22/2012) The Indonesian island of Sulawesi is a workshop of bizarre evolutionary experiments.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/09/rodents-have-lowest-diversity-in-primary-forests-in-the-congo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30284</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Tink frog calls allow researchers to measure population</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/tink-frog-calls-allow-researchers-to-measure-population/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Mar 2012 16:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central America and Costa Rica]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amphibians, Animals, Environment, Forests, Frogs, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Reforestation, Secondary Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Given their often tiny size and cryptic nature, how does one determine frog populations in the rainforest? Just eavesdrop. A new study in mongabay.com&#8217;s open access journal Tropical Conservation Society (TCS) employed automated recorders to listen to amphibian calls to determine if the common tink frog (Diasporus diastema) could be found in recovering secondary forests [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Given their often tiny size and cryptic nature, how does one determine frog populations in the rainforest? Just eavesdrop. A new study in mongabay.com&#8217;s open access journal Tropical Conservation Society (TCS) employed automated recorders to listen to amphibian calls to determine if the common tink frog (Diasporus diastema) could be found in recovering secondary forests in Costa Rica. &#8220;[The common tink frog&#8217;s] small size and its preference for calling from hidden sites make it difficult to observe in the field. In contrast, its &#8216;tink&#8217; call is loud and easily differentiated from other species,&#8221; the researchers write. A brown bear in Alaska. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Gathering 49,273 recordings from 12 secondary forests and 3 primary forests, the researchers noted the tink frog&#8217;s distinct call in about 21 percent of the total recordings (10,605). Surprisingly, they found no change in the number of tink frog&#8217;s calls in primary forest over secondary forest. &#8220;Given that the secondary forests were abandoned pastures, and [the tink frog] has been reported as a forest species, it appears that the species has recovered rapidly in these sites,&#8221; the researchers write. Their study contrasts with earlier research that failed to find the tink frog in secondary forest, however the scientists note that in the previous study &#8220;a large river separated the mature and secondary forest, which may have limited colonization.&#8221; The scientists did find that calling changed depending on the season and time. Peak calling occurred from 10 PM to 1 AM, and calling was very&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/tink-frog-calls-allow-researchers-to-measure-population/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-31163</doi>				</item>
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