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One more (excellent) reason to conserve tropical forests
© K. Sloan Brown Another nail in the deforesters’ justification coffin – tropical forests are worth more intact than cut down. This one from Mongabay.com and one for the Potential section: Undisturbed...
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Tropical forests worth more standing
© R. Butler Keeping with the oil palm theme… A paper just published online in Conservation Letters by Venter and colleagues entitled Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals gets...
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Tropical forests cooking their biodiversity
Another ‘hot’ essay by Bill Laurance recently published online by Yale Environment 360 (a publication of the Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies). Bill asked me to relay it...
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No substitute for primary forest
© Romulo Fotos http://goo.gl/CrAsE A little over five years ago, a controversial and spectacularly erroneous paper appeared in the tropical ecology journal Biotropica, the flagship journal of the...
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Earth’s second lung has emphysema
Many consider forests as the ‘lungs’ of the planet – the idea that trees and other plants take up carbon and produce oxygen (the carbon and oxygen cycles). If we are to be fair though, the oceans store...
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