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Sustainable forestry management can help developing countries achieve economic growth while protecting natural resources and wildlife habitats. Forestry projects can also help offset carbon dioxide emissions.
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Opinions and Analysis
GM tree research blocked by impossible recommendations
Essential field trials of GM trees are being hindered by anti-GM activists working through the Convention on Biological Diversity, say Steven H. Strauss and colleagues.
18 June 2009
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Source: Nature Biotechnology
We must protect our forests
Safeguarding and replanting forests are key to reducing flooding and protecting wood supplies, says Lester R. Brown.
24 April 2009
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Source: Business Daily Africa
Training tree fellers helps cut carbon emissions
22 July 2008
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Source: PLoS Biology
News and Features
Indian small-scale forestry project wins CDM certificate
A community forestry project in Haryana state has won the world's first afforestation clean development mechanism certificate.
Countries funded to plan forest protection
Developing countries have been funded to take part in the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation scheme.
16 April 2009
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African forests prove valuable carbon sink
25 February 2009
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Source: Nature
