Forests and Food: Thoughts on Our Fear of Working Together
Last week the Yale chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters webcast its annual conference, this year focused on Food and Forests: Cultivating Resilient
Globalisation, logging concessions, conservation organisations and local people
A commonly held view in the developed part of the world is that conservation organisations are doing "good" when offering small-scale development activities to improve local livelihoods of people in remote forested areas, such as those in southeast Cameroon.
As tropical forests give way to cities, roads and soybean fields, what’s left behind is a collage of forest remnants and ‘secondary’ forests that regrow after agricultural lands are abandoned.
Logging companies may assist rural development: Study
Logging companies play a key role in developing forest regions in Central Africa, a CIFOR report studying the impact of commercial forest management says.
Rebirth Control: Lessons Learned from 90 Years of Rainforest Regeneration
There are macaques everywhere—climbing on the rocks, grooming one another as they sit on the forest floor. Others have babies on their backs as they trot along at a fair clip.