Community managed forests in Nepal are already achieving goals set out at this year’s Rio+20 conference by promoting sustainable use of natural resources and making sure more trees are left standing.
Maintaining and rehabilitating natural ecosystems like mangroves may be the most cost-effective way to help protect cities on small islands from rising sea levels, according to preliminary findings from a study in Fiji.
Strict law enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon has seen deforestation rates plummet, yet the government “must go beyond enforcement” and reform land use policies to restore millions of hectares of degraded land.
REDD+ as an idea is a success – but implementing it is fraught with challenges, according to a new publication from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
