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Here you can find various news related to tropical forests - newly published papers, conferences, main political decisions etc.
We cannot cover all news related to tropical forests. Therefore, this section focuses on conferences of regional/global relevance, publications directly associated with people or organisations that are part of the Tropical Forest Arena as well as news of particular relevance for tropical forests.
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Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system
The recently (February 2024) published article by Flores et al. in Nature discusses potential critical transitions in the Amazon forest...
Feb 21, 2024
Land sparing outperforms land sharing for Amazonian bird communities regardless of surrounding landscape context
A recently published paper by Birch et al. (2024) in the Journal of Applied Ecology with Torbjørn Haugaasen (member of the TFA Steering...
Feb 14, 2024
Comparative study of carbon rights in the context of jurisdictional REDD+: Case studies from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean
REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) has been a topic here before, as e.g. in the recent summarising...
Feb 14, 2024
What do car tires have to do with tropical forests?
With a production of 2.5 billion tires annually, tires are pretty much all around us. Has it ever occurred to you that those tires could...
Feb 5, 2024
Forest carbon credits, REDD+ and voluntary markets
Mongabay published a five-part series on carbon trade related to tropical forests. If you have the time, we can recommend reading the...
Jan 23, 2024
60th Annual Meeting of The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation in Kigali, Rwanda
The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) is inviting to the 60th Annual Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda from July 14-18,...
Jan 19, 2024
What was in it for tropical forests at COP28?
What would tropical forests say about the outcomes of COP28? Would they throw a party to celebrate any good news or rather decide to turn...
Dec 22, 2023
COP28 goal to halt forest loss, but how to finance it?
At COP28 it was emphasised to halt and reverse forest loss by 2030. “Results-based finance” is supposed to help achieving that goal....
Dec 19, 2023
Cargill announces conversion-free supply chains by 2025
The multinational food company Cargill announced that its supply chains in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay will be deforestation and...
Dec 13, 2023
Paper on collective incentive-based conservation interventions in Peru
A newly published paper in Ecological Economics titled "Participation, anticipation effects and impact perceptions of two collective...
Dec 6, 2023
Reason for hope? – Deforestation rates decrease in Brazil and Colombia
Can we allow ourselves to be tentatively hopeful? As the Independent titles: “Brazil could reach all-time lowest deforestation rates...
Dec 5, 2023
Streamed event at COP28: Raising voices from the Amazon
Deforestation tends to be lower in indigenous territories in the Amazon and strengthening indigenous people's rights proves to be an...
Dec 4, 2023
Start of COP28 - What will be in it for tropical forests?
Source picture The COP28 is an important event for the world’s tropical forests, both if stronger commitments and actions are achieved as...
Nov 30, 2023
Deforestation Action Tracker 2023 reveals inadequate action of finance sector on deforestation
Global Canopy has published its 2023 Deforestation Action Tracker report assessing 713 financial institutions with high-profile climate...
Nov 29, 2023
Reminder and Update Tropical Ecology Conference, Lisbon, February 2024
Reminder of the upcoming European Conference on Tropical Ecology 2024 in Lisbon! The deadline for early registration and abstract...
Nov 28, 2023
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