Did you know that the shape of airplane wings was designed to mimic the sloped wing tips of eagles? That the ridges on whales’ fins that create an aerodynamic flow in water inspired the shape of the modern wind turbine? That termites drilling holes in their mounds to cool down in the desert summers influenced...Read More
The Chair of Tropical and International Forestry, as part of the Department of Forest Sciences at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences is granting a dedicated to research in the field of “Forest Farmers’ Organizations in timber value chains: Financial performance, power, and governance”. Duration & location: funding period of the scholarship is 36 months, starting...Read More
By expanding existing park networks across one percent of the planets land area, over 1,000 habitats could be saved. In a new study, bioscientists argue that strengthening the protection given to areas already protected under law or by local communities is as critical for safeguarding biodiversity as creating new protected areas. The research team, which...Read More
Deep learning enables satellite-based monitoring of large populations of terrestrial mammals across heterogeneous landscapes. Under that title, the master’s thesis of now-former ITC student Zijing Wu (26) was published in the scientific journal Nature Communications. Wu was even the first author. Something she never reckoned with. When you started your masters in 2019, did you...Read More
The need for awareness—and action—about the threat to biodiversity is greater than ever. The world’s biodiversity has been diminishing at an alarming rate—tens of thousands of animal and plant species have vanished because of human actions such as large-scale agriculture, overexploitation of natural resources, and climate change. It is estimated that the overexploitation and degradation...Read More
Findings from a workshop on implementing safeguards in Jambi Province. Safeguards introduced as part of the reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) programme aim to address potential impacts on Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs). But how do these safeguards work, and what barriers may block them? Safeguards have been conceptualized...Read More
As South America’s most heavily forested country, Brazil has also received the largest amount of funding in the region for reducing deforestation. Its Amazon Fund, launched in 2008, was the world’s largest programme for financing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Suspended in 2019, when former Brazilian President Jair...Read More
In the context of the 2023 annual work plan of the AFF-UNREDD partnership project on “ Strengthening REDD+ implementation in Africa: capitalizing on lessons learned for an evolving environment” AFF is recruiting six national experts, one each for Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of Congo, and Uganda to take stock of progress made...Read More
For several years, ecological research has argued that climate often has no determining influence on the distribution of forests and savannas in tropical regions. However, an international research team led by Prof. Dr. Steven Higgins at the University of Bayreuth has now succeeded in proving that it depends mostly on climatic factors whether regions in...Read More
Executive Summary The frequency and severity of wildfires, as well as the duration of the fire season, are increasing in many regions of the world. The occurrence of extreme wildfires – i.e. wildfire events that are particularly severe in terms of their size, duration, intensity and impacts – is also on the rise. In Australia,...Read More
