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Hope! A reforestation corridor in Madagascar offers a future for lemurs and locals
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Madagascan Reforestation Corridor This shows just what can be done. What a great story. View of the landscape where the reforestation corridor project is located in eastern Madagascar. Image courtesy of TDARFAC. Excerpt A reforestation corridor project aims to reconnect 150 hectares of fragmented forest between Andasibe-Mantadia National Park and the Analamazoatra Special Reserve, home to a dozen lemur species and many other animals and plants that are found nowhere else on Earth. Led by the Mad Dog Initiative in partnership with The Dr. Abigail Ross Foundation for Applied Conservation, Association Mitsinjo and Ecovision Village, the project represents a unique convergence of science, private…
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Drax Should Have No Place In UK Climate Plan
Once again I have to talk about Drax. This company, Drax, burns old growth forest felled in Canada and imported to the UK. This is emphatically not green energy, nor is it renewable energy. They've just built a ship to facilitate this vile trade. Their ridiculous subsidies must stop. I need say no more.
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Biodiversity loss ‘threat to security’
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Biodiversity Loss This Biodiversity Loss article from the Ecologist is terrifying. Such is the impact of this article we are making it pillar content. The government didnt want you, the public, or us, to see this report. The government must act. We must work with the European Union very closely on this. In fact we need to rejoin the EU as a matter or urgency and national security. Read on. The science and fact behind this is absolutely solid. © Creative Commons Extract The British government’s own security experts join the dots between nature loss, security and the wellbeing of society. Global ecosystem degradation…
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Carbon Brief
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to 25 ‘climate-friendly’ farming methods Carbon Brief tell us that global food systems are responsible for around one third of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions each year. Does that include deforestation, transport of soya? If not then its much higher still. Lets find out. The answer? It does not include deforestation. Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to 25 ‘climate-friendly’ farming methods Extract Global food systems are responsible for around one third of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions each year. Agriculture is also, by far, the biggest driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss. Producing less meat, using less synthetic fertiliser, stopping food waste and…
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Worlds Biggest Deforestation Project gets Underway in Papua for Sugarcane
World’s Biggest Deforestation Project
