Hutan tropis yang ditetapkan sebagai kawasan lindung memiliki tingkat deforestasi tahunan lebih tinggi dibandingkan wilayah kelola masyarakat lokal. Demikian penuturan Manuel Guariguata, Peneliti Senior di Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) dalam siaran persnya, akhir pekan lalu.
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Deforestasi Banyak Terjadi di Hutan Lindung
Manuel Guarigata, peneliti CIFOR memberikan komentnya mengenai hasil penelitian bahwa tingkat deforestasi tahunan hutan lindung jauh lebih tinggi dibandingkan dengan wilayah hutan yang dikelola masyarakat lokal. “Hasil penelitian kami menunjukkan bahwa memagari hutan dan menetapkannya sebagai hutan lindung, tidak selalu menjamin terpeliharanya tutupan hutan dalam jangka waktu lama, jika dibandingkan dengan wilayah hutan yang dikelola masyarakat lokal. Bahkan pada kenyataannya, hutan lindung lebih banyak kehilangan pohon,” katanya.
Climate Conversations – A billion-dollar question: How much will it take to protect trees?
Riyong Kim Bakkegaard, a leader of researchers in the Amazon in association with CIFOR global REDD research initiative comments on pledge system under REDD+ in order to protect the rainforest. “The idea behind payments for environmental services is to provide an incentive to people. But the problem that we can see is that sometimes it is not big enough to become an effective incentive,” Bakkegaard said.
New Scientific Network on Climate Change Adaptation
CIFOR was part of team in Central America that finds that the temperature is rising and forests are taking longer to grow, while farther south, the Amazon rainforests have yet to feel the effects of global warming.
Climate Conversations – The squeeze: Brazil cuts off credit to illegal loggers
Peter May, a scientist working in Brazil in association with CIFOR, comments on an approach to save the Amazon. “If you can link someone who has been charged with an infraction with their accessibility to credit, that can be an effective deterrent,” said Peter.
Científicos crean red contra el cambio climático
En América Central la temperatura se eleva y los bosques demoran en crecer. Más al sur, las selvas amazónicas aún no se calientan. Es sólo un ejemplo de que el cambio climático se manifiesta de maneras diferentes en cada región. Tales iniciativas, ejecutadas entre 2008 y 2011, fueron impulsadas por el Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA) de España, el Centro de Investigación Forestal Internacional (Cifor) con sede en Indonesia, y el Catie. Los resultados de estos estudios se presentaron en Turrialba unos días antes de la primera reunión de la flamante Red de Adaptación al Cambio Climático y ecosistemas como estrategias de adaptación (RACC).
Forest experts to meet in Jakarta
Frances Seymour comments on incoming event title Indonesia’s Forest: future alternative to fulfill necessity on food, wood, energy and REDD+, 27 September 2011. “More people are realizing that we do not use land appropriately in Indonesia. Now the country should have an alternative reference to fulfill its national goals, which are so varied,” she said on Monday.