The critical time to preserve rainforest is now before more valuable forest disappears forever.
It is wise to recognize that avoided deforestation is valuable even without a guarantee of permanence. Carbon sequestration doesn’t have to be permanent to be part of a climate change mitigation program. READ MORE »
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The Driving Forces of Destruction
Commercial logging is the single largest cause of rainforest destruction, both directly and indirectly. Other activities destroying the rainforest, including clearing land for grazing animals and...
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Carbon Credits from the Forest
I recently returned from Costa Rica on a mission to work towards achieving CCB certification for the Pax Natura Project. The science involved in calculating how much carbon is sequestered in a...
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Costa Rica - A Leader in Forest Preservation
Costa Rica, itself a founder of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has been a leader in establishing and defining a category of environmental services, well ahead of...
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The problem and the solution of the destruction of the rainforest are both economic. Governments need money to...
The critical time to preserve rainforest is now before more valuable forest disappears forever. It is wise to...
We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. R...
The Amazon Rainforest covers over a billion acres, encompassing areas in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and the E...
Why should the loss of tropical forests be of any concern to us in light of our own poor management of natural...
If Amazonia were a country, it would be the ninth largest in the world. The Amazon rainforest, the world's gre...
The AmazonBasin was formed in the Paleozoic period, somewhere between 500 million and 200 million years ago. T...
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), now enshrined as the Kyoto Protocol, is an...
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Pax Natura is conducting a tour of some of the delights of Cosa Rica from January 14 through January 22, 2008....
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