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Coverage of forest reserves since December 9, 2022.

In Uganda, bamboo has government's backing as a crop with real growth potential

"...This East African country is seeing growing interest in bamboo, a perennial plant cultivated in many parts of the world. It can be burned for fuel in rural communities, taking pressure off dwindling forest reserves of eucalyptus and other natural resources. It's a hardy plant that can grow almost anywhere..."

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Letter: Private logging should encourage North Cowichan to protect its forests

"...Logging and private land development are among the leading threats to this forest type, or biogeoclimatic zone..."

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Letter: North Cowichan cannot be a leader if it is not a team player

"...Time to join the team effort to protect a critically emperilled ecosystem Jul. 11, 2023 10:36 a. m..."

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Human activities affect wildlife even in nature reserves

"...The study used results from one of the largest long-term standardized camera-trap wildlife surveys to date. It produced millions of camera images, which researchers analyzed to see how human activity has affected 159 mammal species in 16 protected areas across tropical regions on three continents. The camera traps across 1,000 sites collected images over up to 10 years across tropical forests..."

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Conservation preferred option for North Cowichan's public forests

"...Active conservation would focus on targeted logging with the goal of restoring and enhancing ecosystem conditions that promote biodiversity, while providing some income from harvesting and generating income for North Cowichan from carbon credits..."

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Guest column: Poor information will cost taxpayers, says pro-logging group

"...Since the 1960s North Cowichan has been one of a handful of small municipally owned successful forest businesses. The small forest reserve balanced environmental, recreational, and economic interests until a small but very vocal group started demanding a stop to all timber harvesting..."

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Conservation activist hopes old growth giants in North Cowichan forest reserve can inspire vision for future

"...Larry Pynn hopes the discovery of some very large old-growth trees in a remote area in North Cowichan’s 5,000 hectare municipal forest reserve will give people an idea of what the previously logged local public forests could look like years from now if the right choices are made..."

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Letter: Restore logging in forest reserve

"...In a recent letter critical of the history of the forest reserve, the writer made reference to significant remarks by our new tall premier. The impact attributed to the remarks and their significance on the MFR was the equivalent to the Sermon on the Mount to Christians, the Gettysburg Address to Americans, of Churchill’s “We will fight them on the Beaches” to the Allied nations. So I checked and what I found was run of the mill “we must do better” with our forests..."

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Letter: Setting the record straight on the ‘imperilled' Municipal Forest Reserve

"...It’s coming from a loud few who believe in continued logging of North Cowichan’s Municipal Forest Reserve — which falls within the coastal Douglas-fir forest, the most imperilled forest landscape in B. C..."

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Letter: North Cowichan leads the way on community forestry

"...At the online workshop I attended, 60 people volunteered two hours to learn and ask questions about eco-forestry, variable retention, sustainability, clearcutting, carbon offsets and many other forestry topics..."

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Letter: Complete municipal forest survey to resume logging

"...In the early 1980s a forestry advisory committee, made up of professional foresters and lay people, was established to guide the management of these forest lands. The result is our Municipal Forest Reserve is amongst the best managed if not the best managed of all small private forest land holdings in the province. It provides jobs and economic benefits for local people and businesses not to mention recreational opportunities for hikers and trail bikers..."

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Letter: Bias shown in forest reserve article

"...That story concerns our municipal forest reserve program’s history and revenues — plus our current public discussion and survey regarding our nationally rare reserve’s future. The public input deadline is Dec. 31, 2022..."

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Informative Video

Discussions, Documentaries, and Investigative Reports about forest reserves.

Carlos Peres | Sustainable-use protected areas improve community well-being | Frontiers Forum 2023

"...Through their research, professor Carlos Peres and his team showed that community-based conservation programs in the Amazon not only benefit natural ecosystems but also improve the livelihoods of people living in protected areas..."

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Wild City | Episode 5: Secret World | Free Documentary Nature

"...Meanwhile, in Singapores forest reserves, joggers and cyclists are largely oblivious to the work going on under their feet: termites constructing elaborate tunnels and recycling precious nutrients through the forests ecosystem, and rare snails and gigantic forest ants foraging in the canopy and undergrowth..."

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Academic Research

Recent peer-reviewed papers about forest reserves relevant to the latest news.

Unveiling the ?Green?: Media Coverage on the Aceh Green Vision, Indonesia

"...Indonesia has had many trials in recent years associated with legal and illegal threats to forests and their biodiversity, including in Aceh?s forests?Leuser ecosystem, which are home to one of the key forest reserves..."

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Nexus of village land use planning, village land forest reserve and REDD+ in Tanzania: a synthesis of concepts

"...Land use planning (LUP) and village land forest reserve (VLFR) have been integral to the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation plus (REDD+) initiative in Tanzania since its inception in 2008..."

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Assessing habitat requirements of Asian tapir in forestry landscapes: Implications for conservation

"...To date, little is known about how tapir respond to habitat fragmentation in forestry landscapes..."

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The impacts of invasive trees on the structure and composition of tropical forests show some consistent patterns but many are c

"...It also provides insights into silviculture and other forest management decision-making and interventions, with respect to invasive tree species in forest reserves..."

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Camera-trapping assessment of terrestrial mammals and birds in rehabilitated forest in INIKEA Project Area, Sabah, Malaysian Bo

"...The Innoprise-IKEA (INIKEA) Forest Rehabilitation Project in Kalabakan Forest Reserve, Sabah, was established to rehabilitate degraded forest affected by conventional logging and forest fires that occurred during an El-Nino event (1982?1983)..."

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Assessing the Community Participation in Ecotourism at Ulu Muda Forest Reserve, Malaysia

"...The Ulu Muda Forest Reserve (UMFR) is one of the most attractive natural areas in Kedah, Malaysia, and has the potential for ecotourism..."

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"...Few studies regarding the assessment of the growing season?s trends and the associated agro-climatic risks are focused on agro-ecosystems around forest reserve although adaptive extensive agriculture poses severe threats due to climate variability and change..."

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A new evaluation of the influence of climate change on Zagros oak forest dieback in Iran

"...These vital ecosystems hold great environmental and ecological importance in protecting water resources in the climatic dry conditions of the country..."

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Soil microbial community response to ectomycorrhizal dominance in diverse neotropical montane forests

"...We examined fungal and prokaryotic community composition in surface soil samples from mixed arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EM) stands as well as stands dominated by EM-associated Oreomunnea mexicana (Juglandaceae) in four watersheds differing in soil fertility in the Fortuna Forest Reserve, Panama..."

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Bird species use of Tapinanthus dodoneifolius mistletoes parasitising African locust bean trees Parkia biglobosa in Amurum Fore

"...The relationship between mistletoes and their host trees constitutes one of the unique host?parasite interactions in ecosystems..."

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Land cover change and its impact on human?elephant conflict: a case from Fashiakhali forest reserve in Bangladesh

"...Therefore, it is essential to understand how land cover changes may threaten future land cover trends and wildlife habitat loss, especially in protected areas..."

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