CEESP News - by Christoph Weigl
After seven years of preparations, the Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR opened to the public last month. The jungle of regrowth which almost obliterated the garden has given way to an extensive series of medicinal plants, lotus-filled ponds, bamboo and palm trees and a鈥
In July 2016, the Miombo Network 鈥 southern Africa鈥檚 oldest regional network 鈥 met in Mozambique to discuss the conservation of the endangered Miombo woodlands. The meeting resulted in a roadmap for the protection of this fragile ecosystem.聽
Today, a rapidly increasing number of people are flocking to the coasts 鈥 to build their homes, to spend their holidays or to conduct business activities. Meanwhile, climate change is turning coasts into increasingly hazardous living environments. Human conversion of coastal ecosystems is鈥
On February 2nd the world聽celebrates its聽wetlands 鈥 complex ecosystems that provide a wide variety of services and benefits for people and聽nature.聽 Wetlands such as estuaries, mangroves, marshes, and swamps play, beyond their biological role, a key part in helping people cope with disasters. Yet鈥
People and forests are connected. Study after study confirms this linkage, and it is known that hundreds of millions of rural people around the world either derive a portion of their livelihoods from the forest or are deeply dependant on forests in some way. Unlike measuring benefits from鈥
This document provides information on how implementing forest landscape restoration (FLR) at the jurisdictional and national level can offer countries a way to recover degraded forests and bring back key forest ecosystem functionalities in a way that will increase biodiversity levels in a鈥
Climate mitigation and adaptation are a country鈥檚 most pressing actions in the face of a looming global climate crisis 鈥搘ith catastrophic consequences already occurring in many coastal regions. Now, the restoration of mangrove forests and other coastal systems is emerging as a solution聽鈥 serving鈥
A new report explores the results of Viet Nam鈥檚 policies on protecting and restoring forests, with a special focus on the country鈥檚 efforts to implement sustainable forestry models.聽
The workshop on 鈥淩estoring Myanmar鈥檚 Degraded and Deforested Landscapes鈥 was jointly organised by the Forest Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC), 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC).聽The鈥