In December 2021 BVRio reached the end of its first 10 years of operation, and in this, our 11th year, we are going to take the opportunity to celebrate the decade of impact we have made.
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BVRio Director of Forestry and Public Policy Beto Mesquita, joined the re-start of the Fórum Florestal Fluminense (FFF), one of the ten regional forums of the Forest Dialogue, an initiative which brings together environmentalists, researchers, indigionous peoples, and companies from the forest-based sector.
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In September, the Brazil Coalition created a Task Force – Força-Tarefa da Coalizão Brasil – (FT) dedicated to the Forest Code. One of the main purposes of the new group is to promote the alignment of the many discussions involving the Code that take place in the different FTs and Dialogue Forums of the movement.
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Researchers from 13 institutions studied an area of tropical forest in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, that was heavily logged in the 1980s and subsequently protected from further logging or conversion to plantation agriculture. They found that areas left to regenerate naturally recovered by as much as 2.9 tonnes of aboveground carbon per hectare of forest each year. This is important because it highlights that if degraded tropical forests are protected, they can recover well naturally.
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