Wednesday, October 1, 2014

September 26, 2014 at 04:21PM A new global network to measure the resilience of managed forests

Illegal logging, deforestation, biodiversity losses, etc, etc; logged forests often have a bad press. However, the concept of rational logging is now making headway. A global network of institutions – the Tropical managed Forests Observatory – is looking for the first time, on a regional and pan-tropical scale, at the resilience of these forests after selective logging. Its work concerns three main forest regions: the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia. The project is coordinated by CIRAD and funded by the CGIAR Forest Tree and Agroforestry programme, which involves twenty research organizations.






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