Think “rainforest,” and in most people’s minds, the word immediately conjures up the region surrounding the Amazon River — the world’s largest rainforest, whose great biodiversity encompasses a wealth of plant and animal species. South America boasts other natural wonders as well, including the Andes Mountains and the Galapagos Islands. And the continent’s many natural [...]
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Teak is a very tall tree that grows to a height of more than 40 meters (131,24 feet). Its stem, usually round and straight, is wrapped by a thick cracked fibrous bark. The brown color of the young trees becomes grayish as they grow older.
In seasonal climates, like in Brazil, the species has a [...]
The Prince of Wales in the Indonesian rainforest. Photograph: Getty
A global emergency funding scheme to drastically reduce the destruction of tropical rainforests over the next five years was announced by the Prince of Wales today, with the US pledging $275m (£165m) towards rainforest protection.
The plan relies on developed countries paying rainforest nations such as Brazil [...]
Liane Luke’s Phaunos defines sustainable management of plantations as cutting no more trees than you plant. Natural forests including rainforests can also be selectively logged with little damage, under the right rules, said Gardiner.
But the Rainforest Foundation’s Simon Counsell rejected selective logging of rainforests, which he said resulted in far bigger carbon losses than simply [...]
Nov 12th 2009
From The Economist print edition
Now the risk for Latin America’s big success story is hubris
Rex Features
WHEN, back in 2003, economists at Goldman Sachs bracketed Brazil with Russia, India and China as the economies that would come to dominate the world, there was much sniping about the B in the BRIC acronym. Brazil? A [...]
“The ‘boom’ in development that deforestation brings to these areas is clear, but our data show that in the long run these benefits are not sustained. Along with environmental concerns, this is another good reason to restrict further deforestation in the Amazon,” added co-author Rob Ewers from Imperial College London. “However, in areas that are [...]
Our most recent trip to Brazil:
After meeting the workers at a number of our plantations, we could not help but feel heartwarmed seeing how your investments are not only changing the environment but also changing the lives of the families that work and live in and around the plantations, giving them stability, good [...]
Sustainable, high grade hardwood plantations can employ best management practices to produce 20 times more volume of timber than that in the natural forest. Teak, or tectona grandis, is the world’s most cultivated high grade tropical hardwood and it’s price has risen steadily over the past twenty years.
There have been plantations in Brazil for centuries. [...]