Field Notes
LAST UPDATED
11.17.2010
Our knowledge-sharing blog highlights analysis, stories, data and events that resonate with PROFOR's broad forest interests, whether they originated in our shop or not. Feel free to share your thoughts through comments.
Trouble in the forest, seen through the eyes of orphan bonobos
05.22.13 - 05:23
To the bonobos, the signals are clear: pressure on their rainforest habitat is on the rise. It's visible in the rise of orphan arrivals at the Lola-ya-Bonobo sanctuary near Kinshasa. If nothing is done, various economic and demographic pressures on the Congo Basin forest could wipe out our closest relatives and release the equivalent of 1 billion tons of carbon in the atmosphere, by 2030.
Do trends in woodfuel consumption spell disaster for forests?
04.18.13 - 16:00
Is Western Europe climbing down the "energy ladder"? Can traditional woodfuel be part of a modern energy mix? Two recent publications outline steps to help modernize woodfuel production and use, including in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Think Globally, Act “Locally Controlled”
04.15.13 - 12:09
Diji Chandrasekharan Behr, a Natural Resource Economist at PROFOR, was one of several panelists at a side event on Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry at UNFF 10 last week. In this blog, she asks why are we not seeing more investments in small and medium forest enterprises.
Films for tree-huggers
04.11.13 - 12:13
PROFOR's manager, Peter Dewees, is attending UNFF 10 in Istanbul this week. He mentioned "brilliant and inspiring films" that were presented at a side-event on Forest Heroes, produced in some cases by very young and talented film-makers. For those who did not make it, we have embedded the winning entries.
Toward forest-friendly growth in Brazil, the Congo Basin and Indonesia
03.11.13 - 12:04
The forest transition theory holds that economic growth and deforestation go hand in hand. What is happening in the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Indonesia does not necessarily follow that model.