How do #Deforestation frontiers relate with #Conservation priorities, and different forms of protection in #TropicalDryWoodlands worldwide?

A thread on our paper "Tropical dry woodland loss occurs disproportionately in areas of highest conservation value" led by Ana Buchadas, with @TobiasKuemmerle @BiogeoBerlin https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16832
(thread written by Ana for Twixxxx, reformulated here for the greater good)

#LandUse #LandSystems #Sustainability #TropicalForests #DryForests

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🌿🌴🌎 Preserving tropical forests is crucial for our planet's biodiversity, climate stability, and indigenous cultures. Let's #ProtectNature, ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come. #Conservation #HumanRights #GlobalResponsibility #TropicalForests

On this International Tropical Forests Day, let us celebrate the beauty and richness of these magnificent ecosystems. Tropical forests play a critical role in mitigating climate change, conserving biodiversity and supporting local communities. It's our collective responsibility to promote responsible forest management, combat deforestation, and empower the indigenous peoples who are the guardians of these forests. #TropicalForests #ClimateAction #Community

A new study published in the journal Nature analyzed satellite images from three major regions of tropical forest on Earth — Amazon, Central Africa and Borneo — and showed recovering forests offset just 26% of carbon emissions from new tropical deforestation and forest degradation in the past three decades.

Read the story from Jaqueline Sordi

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/tropical-forest-regeneration-offsets-26-of-carbon-emissions-from-deforestation/

#News #Carbon #ClimateChange #Environment #Conservation #TropicalForests #Tropics #Forests

Clement Albergel on forests and the carbon cycle.
#ESA #deforestation #TropicalForests
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2023/03/Clement_Albergel_on_forests_and_the_carbon_cycle

It's worth posting a fresh query here to check the latest science on cloud forest trends on a heating planet. #climatechange #tropicalforests
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RT @revkin
A deadline question for tropical climate twitter. Is there any place where long-term analysis is confirming what a lot of conservation biologists have long sensed - that cloud forests are getting "baked" off the top of mountains? e.g. Costa Rica. From this... 1/2
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1080486790421729281

A new species of frog has been described from the tropical Andes of Ecuador and named after J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of famous works of fantasy literature.

Only one individual of the species has been found, within the bounds of Río Negro-Sopladora National Park.

Read the story from Liz Kimbrough.

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/new-species-of-tolkien-frog-emerges-from-middle-earth-of-ecuadoran-andes/

#Frogs #TropicalForests #Ecuador #News #Conservation #Environment

This is the story of how three individual landowners engineered the single-largest instance of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

The clearing of 6,469 hectares (or 15,985 acres) of forest in the southern part of Pará state could earn them nearly $20 million in profit at current land prices.

Read the article from Fernanda Wenzel

#Amazon #LandGrabbing #Conservation #Forests #TropicalForests #Brail #News #Environment #Deforestation #OrganizedCrime #IllegalLogging

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/the-20m-flip-the-story-of-the-largest-land-grab-in-the-brazilian-amazon/

Go #green, at a cost?

#Patagonia’s CEO #RyanGellert: awkward to prize the planet & produce unnecessary consumer goods.

Is it better to waterproof products w/#palmoil instead of #toxicchemicals when palm oil plantations tend to compromise #TropicalForests?

Is it helpful to #recycle #plasticbottles into #fleece if these fibers are more likely to shed #microplastic particles that can end up #polluting the seas?

“I’m very clear-eyed that we still take more from the planet than we restore.”
#WSJ

RT @REDD_Copernicus: Alarming rate of #deforestation - to support #reforestation & stop #forest degradation #REDD+ @REDD_Copernicus @CopernicusEU monitoring #EO services to plan & take #sustainable #ClimateAction #tropicalforests @tfa_Global @tropeatlands @UNCCD @unredd @gfoi_forest @FAOForestry

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1603427499463114755

EU bans import of products that are 'main drivers of #deforestation'. These include cattle, coffee, cocoa, palm oil, rubber, soy and timber.

The EU accounts for 16% of global deforestation through imports and is the second largest destroyer of #TropicalForests after China, according to #WWF.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/european-union/article/2022/12/06/eu-bans-import-of-products-that-are-main-drivers-of-deforestation_6006733_156.html

"Fossilized leaves and pollen are revealing the evolutionary past of New World tropical forests. The findings are helping to reshape predictions of what might happen to these ecosystems as the climate changes."
#ClimateChange #TropicalForests #Ecosystems
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2022/new-history-tropical-forests-americas

Perhaps a belated addition to #gisday
A map of the world showing forests as mountains.

https://www.woodwellclimate.org/research-area/tropics/

#maps #forests #TropicalForests

RT @spaceforearth: A new web tool uses @CopernicusEU #Sentinel images to spot signs of unlicensed, damaging and potentially dangerous #mining in #TropicalForests 🛰️🌴

Developed by @GAF_Munich, funded by @ESA, easy to use and access 👉 https://www.gaf.de/content/satellite-data-help-detect-artisanal-mining-gaf-ag-develops-%E2%80%9Casm-alert%E2%80%9D-web-platform

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1527283950334291969

Interesting. Some research on the resilience of tropical forests conducted in Biosphere 2. Did you interact with them, @dantheclamman ?

https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/photosynthetic-resilience-to-a-warmer-world-is-revealed-by-a-tropical-forest-under-glass

#Research #Biosphere2 #Forests #TropicalForests #Environment

#Nature: "#Europe’s #GreenDeal offshores #environmental #damage to other nations
Importing millions of tonnes of #crops and #meat each year undercuts farming standards in the #EuropeanUnion and destroys #TropicalForests.
[...] For example, between 1990 and 2014, #European #forests expanded by 9%, an area roughly equivalent to the size of #Greece (13 Mha). Elsewhere, around 11 Mha was #deforested to grow #crops that were consumed within the #EU"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02991-1