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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Local uptake of climate change adaptation measures and practices by forest farm producers in Nepal. In an effort to determine a way forward to mainstream and up-scale the best climate change adaptation measures and practices of the Forest and Farm Producer Organisations (FFPOs), a two-day workshop titled “Local uptake of climate change adaptation measures and […]
INTRODUCTION The African Forest Forum (AFF) is a pan-African non-governmental organisation with its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. It is an association of individuals who share the quest for and commitment to the sustainable management, use and conservation of the forest and tree resources of Africa for the socioeconomic wellbeing of its peoples and for the […]
Department of Ecosystems and Conservation of Sokoine University of Agriculture is offering Forest Botany course among others. This Forest Botany is offered under BSc Forestry and BSc Wildlife Management. From 12th to 16th June 2023, Students undertaking BSc Forestry Year 1 conducted field practicals at SUA Botanical gardens, Kimboza Forest Reserve and Kitulangalo Forest Reserve, Morogoro. Upon successful completion of Forest Botany course, the student will be […]