Forêt, Bois, Milieux naturels : sciences et techniques

Based on Corine Land Cover 2006, the map shows the distribution of aggregated land cover classes.

Strict conservation areas and indigenous reserves are more effective at reducing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon relative to 'sustainble-use' areas set up for non-indigenous resource extraction, reports a new study published in the journal...

La mode est au chauffage à bois, il se vend en France plus de 450 000 chaudières, inserts ou poêles à bois chaque année ! Certes les ventes se sont effritées ces dernières années, mais elles ont rebondi en 2011.

Global comparative forest research on climate change, adaptation, production forests, indigenous groups, REDD, dry forests,food security, illegal logging, deforestation, small holder and community groups, forest governance, trade and conservation,...

Researchers are finding that massive deforestation may have a profound, and possibly catastrophic, impact on local weather

A paper appearing in the open-access journal PLOS ONE presents the first whole-ecosystem analysis of carbon stocks of different kinds of coastal wetlands in a tropical karstic zone.

Le bois de douglas indigène est très apprécié ici, et se prête à de nombreuses applications. Sa qualité varie toutefois plus fortement que chez toutes les autres espèces commerciales.

Based on Corine Land Cover 2006 and changes between 2000 and 2006, the map shows the distribution and intensity of selected Land Cover Flows (LCF) in forest area

En février le site Faune Flore du Massif Central s’est encore enrichi.

Wie hat sich die Waldfläche in der Schweiz seit 1945 entwickelt? Wie hoch waren die Einnahmen der Forstbetriebe? Wieviel Wald ist zertifiziert? Wieviele Waldbrände gibt es in der Schweiz? Anworten liefert das Jahrbuch Wald und Holz.

"The UN-REDD Programme is an initiative to support efforts contributing to the implementation of REDD+ in Viet Nam. The accounting system of emissions reductions in the forestry sector must be as much as possible transparent, accurate, consistent, comparable and complete."

Tropical forests may be less sensitive to global warming than previously thought, argues a new study published in Nature Geoscience..

Elephants are vanishing. The booming illegal ivory trade is decimating the world's largest land animal, but no place has been harder hit than the Congo basin and its forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis).

"The European Forest Institute (EFI) is involved in the forest related DataStream development to provide information on Carbon stock and fluxes of European forests in the newly launched CARBONES project."

La filière du chauffage au bois domestique française est l’une des plus dynamiques d’Europe. Le marché français d’appareils de chauffage au bois domestique est le premier marché européen, avec plus de 450 000 appareils vendus par an (l’Allemagne...

The latest edition of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) Tropical Timber Market Report has been released with a headline story on the joinery sector in the European Union (EU), which remains dominated by EU-based manufacturers.

"The forest transition theory holds that economic growth and deforestation go hand in hand. What is happening in the Amazon, in the Congo Basin and in Indonesia does not necessarily follow that model. A seminar on forest-friendly growth in the three major tropical forest areas, held at the World Bank on February 28, 2013, gave the following food for thought."

"The recently finalized project NOVELTREE  (www.noveltree.eu ) has resulted in a number of valuable research results and publications on genetic breeding of forest trees."      

Clusterpflanzungen werden seit Jahren als ökologische und ökonomische Alternativen zur Reihenpflanzung genutzt. In einer internationalen Studie sind erstmalig Wachstum und Qualität von derartig begründeten Eichenbeständen untersucht worden.

New research shows that scientists have significantly overestimated the damage that logging in tropical forests has done to biodiversity, a finding that could change the way conservationists think about how best to preserve species in areas...