Grist

JULY 14, 2020

But conservation areas are often vulnerable to illegal logging, poaching, mining, and other activities that threaten biodiversity. Sound has long been used by soundscape ecologists to assess biodiversity and other metrics of ecosystem health. How can land managers detect these kinds of human impacts on protected ecosystems?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In addition, the firm has teamed up with rainforest charity Cool Earth as part of an initiative that will see VOXI donate over £60,000 towards supporting "biodiversity, people, and trees".

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

This sobering deforestation figure highlights the harsh landscape changes caused by intentional human encroachment for commercial development purposes, such as logging, mining and cattle ranching. For one, the Amazon rainforest is a biodiversity hotspot, home to thousands of plant and animal species at risk of endangerment and extinction.

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Grist

AUGUST 5, 2022

If deforestation continues, they say, it could also jeopardize international goals to preserve biodiversity and limit global warming. “[T]he According to a study published earlier this year , tropical forests can cool the planet by an entire degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

A report out last Thursday found that the understudied cooling effects of trees — like their role in the water cycle and the compounds they emit — have kept the planet half a degree Celsius cooler, not even accounting for the carbon dioxide they capture. When tree planting goes wrong. It all comes down to trade-offs.

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Grist

OCTOBER 25, 2020

But overall, besides being better for biodiversity, the study showed, natural regeneration can capture more carbon more quickly and more securely than plantations. The remaining three-quarters suffered from forest fires, shifting cultivation, temporary grazing, or logging, and at least had the potential for natural recovery.

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