Category
page 1Forest conservation
old-growth forest
forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance
paper recycling
process by which waste paper is turned into new paper products
Julia Butterfly Hill
American environmental activist (born 1974)
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
1992 film by Bill Kroyer
forest management
branch of forestry
Dorothy Stang
Brazilian activist (1931–2005)
hand dryer
electric hand-drying machine
forest protection
preservation or improvement of a forest threatened or affected by natural or man made causes
Vicente Cañas
Spanish Christian missionary and Jesuit brother (1939–1987)
Bonn Challenge
global effort to restore the world's degraded and deforested lands
Forest Landscape Integrity Index
global index of forest condition
Wilson Pinheiro
Brazilian activist
land surface effects on climate
United Nations REDD Programme
REDD+ is a voluntary climate change mitigation framework developed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It aims to encourage developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and to promote conservation, sustainable forest management, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks through financial incentives and policy support. The acronym is commonly expanded as "reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries", and the "+" denotes the additional forest conservation and enhance
Margaret D. Lowman
American ecologist