Marcação: Rainforest Protection

BVRio participates in the restart of the Fórum Florestal Fluminense

BVRio participates in the restart of the Fórum Florestal Fluminense

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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BVRio participates in new Brazil Coalition Task Force

BVRio participates in new Brazil Coalition Task Force

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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New research demonstrates climate benefits of rainforest protection and restoration

New research demonstrates climate benefits of rainforest protection and restoration

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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