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Monthly update from the world's largest community of environmental experts.
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Celebrating forests Forests protect our watersheds and conserve our soil. They help combat climate change by absorbing and storing vast amounts of carbon, provide food, building materials and medicine, and are home to 80% of the world’s biodiversity. > Read more
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IUCN Director General Interview
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Julia Marton-Lefèvre talks about her hopes for 2011, the International Year of Forests. > Watch video
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Did you know? -About 13 million hectares of forests are lost every year.
-More than 1 billion hectares of lost or degraded forest lands could be restored. > More facts and figures
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Easing the energy pressure
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About a fifth of the global population do not have access to modern energy sources, and 40% of the global population depend on traditional biomass sources such as firewood for cooking. > Read full story
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Closer to forests, out of poverty
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The forests that provide most of Beijing’s water are being given a new lease of life by the partial lifting of a logging quota for the first time in 20 years. > Read full story
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Livelihoods and landscapes
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Gill Shepherd, IUCN's Thematic Adviser on Poverty and Landscapes, speaks on the latest thinking on forests and poverty, drawing from lessons that have come out of IUCN's 'Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy' (LLS). > Watch Gill Shepherd's interview
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Take a look at some images of forests, forest biodiversity and people that depend on it.
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No forest, no life
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Presenting the work of Samuel Kofi Nyame, wildlife biologist.
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Markets and incentives in livelihoods and landscapes strategy
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Using economic and financial tools to sustain forest livelihoods and landscapes.
> Download PDF
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Haiti’s frogs
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Mozart and ventriloquial frogs sound a note of hope and warning for Haiti’s recovery.
> Read full story
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Photo credits: Header banner, photo gallery, Easing the energy pressure, world's forests essential to life, quiz © Intu Boedhihartono; Expert report © IUCN; No forest, no life © Sampson Acheampong; closer to forests © Andrew Ingles; Haiti's frogs © robin Moore iLCP |
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