Anna van Paddenburg, Sustainable Finance and Policy Leader of the Heart of Borneo (HoB), was one of the panel members during the celebration of the 2011 World Environment Day (WED) held at the Asian ...

Introduction / Aline Chiabai -- Part I. Central American tropical forests, ecosystem services and human wellbeing -- An overview of forest biomes and ecoregions of Central America / Lenin Corrales, ...

How valuable are mangroves? A recent study of the Pichavaram mangrove ecosystem estimated its Total Economic Value (TEV) at ₹2,485.38 crore ($289 million), with a per-hectare value of ₹1.83 crore, ...

New report by WWF is a contribution to the FSC's work on payment for ecosystem services. During its last General Assembly in October 2021, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) announced a new roadmap ...

Forest fragmentation—the division of large, intact woodlands into smaller patches—has emerged as a critical issue in 21st-century global land cover change, with far-reaching implications for ecosystem ...

Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds ...

As one moves north, Maine's kelp forests are being overtaken by dense mats of carpet-like turf algae. The steady decline of ...

Climate change, together with decades of land mismanagement, has made wildfires more frequent, more intense and harder to control – especially in Southern Europe. Citing the European Forest Fire ...

Forest ecosystems are among the most structurally complex and biodiverse habitats on Earth, spanning tropical rainforests to boreal taiga. They perform critical ecosystem functions—photosynthetic ...