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Today for you 32 new not-so-site-specific posts about earth's trees!

(466th edition)

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Index & Links:

 

ART

1) Poetry: Pan http://bit.ly/eFEz

2) Poetry: You've got to accentuate the positive http://bit.ly/15xa5

3) Paintings of the Rainforest http://bit.ly/z4wB

 

INTERVIEWS

4) Interview: Montana Forest defenders in the 1970's http://bit.ly/vHSP

5) Interview: Mr. REDD-Monitor Man addresses a flawed carbon scheme

http://bit.ly/45iy

 

SPECIES EXTINCTION

6) For most species extinction per hectare Palm oil is better than any

other http://bit.ly/AuC1

7) World's Tropical forests will be all but gone in just 20 years!

http://bit.ly/aWv1

8) Wildlife hunting coming to a rapid end, forests soon empty http://bit.ly/ORIB

9) We must address extinction threat to wild medicines http://bit.ly/14ZRQ

10) More monitoring needed for " Tsunami stage " of global deforestation

http://bit.ly/i01X

 

GREENWASHING

11) Conservation International is heavy on Con and light on

Conservation http://bit.ly/3XNb

12) Mainstream eco-protection is corrupted by weak performance measure

& reporting standards http://bit.ly/10SJy

13) Greenwashing the long-term degradation of the planet's

forest-based biodiversity http://bit.ly/MloM

14) Can FSC forest certification model be used to demonstrate true

sustainability? http://bit.ly/HZSq

15) Consensus cuttings of a proverbial baby in half is conservation

foolery! http://bit.ly/MXmv

 

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

16) Airplane Laser technology can measure threat-level related to

forest changes http://bit.ly/hWtq

17) Damage measured by laser scanner linked to spectrometer on board

aircraft http://bit.ly/17yFN

18) High-fidelity Imaging Spectroscopy (HiFIS) http://bit.ly/cZQB

19) Protecting primary forests requires protecting secondary forests

too! http://bit.ly/41iix6

20) Flee the city! Trees & Nature make minds and bodies work better

http://bit.ly/X9qN

21) Relevancy of forest science according to Discover's top 100

science stories of 2008? http://bit.ly/15gPs

22) The truth from Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute http://bit.ly/ksfE

23) How do we know if Habitat Connectivity Corridors really work?

http://bit.ly/QOtx

24) Smithsonian's Symposium on Rainforest Survival Concludes http://bit.ly/17Tlj

25) More on Smithsonian Symposium & debate on is it climate or it

deforestation? http://bit.ly/TYTU

 

BIOFUELS / AGROFORESTRY

26) Agro-fuels are too exploitative, too harmful to impoverished

communities & ecosystems! http://bit.ly/2tioHt

27) Forest plantations for sustainable production in the tropics: key

issues for decision-makers http://bit.ly/hmMr

 

REDD & CLIMATE ISSUES

28) Wisdom on what REDD is and isn't… http://bit.ly/lrI9

29) REDD: Saudi Arabia & Brazil fight of " forests in exhaustion " based

carbon credits http://bit.ly/yoar

30) Friends of the Earth Report on forests and Climate http://bit.ly/VEdc

31) World's forests lose 40% of their greenhouse absorbing capacity in

just 20 years http://bit.ly/vAOp

 

FOREST ECONOMICS

32) According to 142 organizations: World Bank is unfit to manage

climate adaption funds http://bit.ly/RfgC