Canopy Watch

We monitor 'so-called' protected riparian zones supplying ecosystem services to forest-dependent communities and strategic corridors to wildlife

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Take a moment to listen to the beautiful song of the Mamuna tribespeople of South Papua

[📹 Daniel Hanson]

[Diego Saez Gil @dsaezgil]

The Amazon rainforest doesn't just remove ~2 billions tons of CO2 every year. It also moves ~20 billions tons of water through evotranspiration, the so-called "flying rivers", critical for planetary balance.

I wish more people knew this.

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

Nearly $7 trillion USD is invested annually in activities harming nature, while investments in Nature-based Solutions total only around $200 billion.

It’s time to flip these numbers.

Check UNEP’s State of Finance for Nature for more findings: https://t.co/RkqKoJN6iC

Via @UNEP

[FAO Forestry @FAOForestry]

Download a free @FAO publication offering an improved understanding of the role of forests in sustainable development

The role of forest ecosystem services to support the green recovery

👉https://t.co/M1x3iGHR4k

#SOFO2022

[Alexander Verbeek 🌍 @Alex_Verbeek]

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For all those traveling to #COP28 now: this Dutch innovation is the kind of solutions the world needs to adapt to increasingly harsher climate conditions in the countries suffering most from the climate crisis that they didn’t create.

#Sustainability

[Remote Sensing MDPI @RemoteSens_MDPI]

#mostcited
📢Forest Canopy Height Estimation Using Polarimetric Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (#PolInSAR) Technology Based on Full-Polarized ALOS/PALSAR Data by Wei Chen, Qihui Zheng, Haibing Xiang et al

👉 Read the full article: https://t.co/8XYU1gyjXv

[AKSatelliteFacility @Ak_Satellite]

We have big news! CSA's RADARSAT-1 is now FREE and OPEN to the world from the Alaska Satellite Facility SAR DAAC. https://t.co/7I3DnHV5TP
Visit our R-1 page to learn more about this valuable resource, & start downloading data today! 🌐🌎🔍 #GoldenAgeofSAR #AlaskaSatelliteFacility

[Chris J Kettle 🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌲🌴🌴🌴🍁🍂🍃 @ChrisJKettle]

Im reposting this with a link to a study just release on the challenges with current native tree seed systems
https://t.co/7aSwmd8sOc

[Fern @Fern_NGO]

Why is the EU #Deforestation Regulation important?
How will the #EUDR help to stop deforestation?
How can the #EU make the Regulation work effectively?

We answered these and other questions in our new #FAQ 👇
https://t.co/Wq9nWNir7t

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

🌳 Biodiversity is calling you to 🇨🇦

Confronting the greatest loss of species since the dinosaurs’🦕demise, the 🗺️community convenes for #COP15 from 7-19 December🗓️ with the aim of adopting a new global biodiversity framework (GBF)

Visit ➡️ https://t.co/dOHg871jty

#ForNature

[Jeff Masters @DrJeffMasters]

A new theoretical study finds a potential source of the increasingly wild global weather in recent decades: deforestation. “Loss of native forest cover should result in continent-scale destabilization of the water cycle and temperature regime.” https://t.co/9BqGQ2sGHa

[Canopy Watch @CanopyWatch]

@RandyBarnhart9 @snaglet @MarkCranfield_ @Magrus03 @erignot Great Project. We are looking forward to the 7m SAR data.

[Aida Greenbury @AidaGreenbury]

Seriously? Cutting a tree during nesting season? What are you made of?

And this is just one tree. Imagine how many living things are destroyed when forests are bulldozed? How many lost their homes and lives?
https://t.co/lbKH0fIu2M

[Rupert Seidl @RupertSeidl]

The effect of increasing disturbances and warming on the carbon balance of a mountain forest ecosystem. New study out, led by @K_Albrich w/ @dominikthom1 @RammerWerner Spoiler: Warming and disturbances interact and could turn the system from sink to source https://t.co/jIA0MdIUSi

[Aida Greenbury @AidaGreenbury]

WWF revealed that 1.4 million hectares of forests in Riau is controlled by #palmoil corporations. Using the Job Creation Laws, they also changed from ‘corporations’ status to fake ‘farmer cooperatives’ to avoid high penalties. https://t.co/k0wC8Y0xoU #deforestation

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

60% of #EU's renewable energy comes from Biomass + increasing. This leads to burning of even more wood + creation of more #emissions in a vicious circle - Is this an #Environmental practice..? Inclusion of Forest Biomass under EU Renewable Energy Directive should be questioned...

[Businessweek @BW]

Shortages of sunflower oil stemming from Russia’s war with Ukraine are forcing food suppliers to use palm oil, which fell out of fashion because of deforestation concerns https://t.co/xH03hoxrQ0

[Caitlin Henderson (She's got Legs) @gotlegsmacro]

MASSIVE NEWS EVERYONE

It is AN ABSOLUTE HONOUR to introduce you to the hitherto unknown adult female Australian Pygmy Leaf Insect (Nanophyllium australianum). You, dear reader, are one of the FIRST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD to see her. How does that feel? Pretty amazing huh? (thread!)

[SUPERB @SUPERB_project]

Today's #ThinkForest take-home messages by @HPuelzl:

1)#Biodiversity protection can be done in every forest - with society, forest owners & managers on board
2) Conservation needs long-term perspectives beyond political cycles
3) Natural & social sciences should join forces

[FAO Forestry @FAOForestry]

"We must enhance the quality, timeliness, accessibility, usability and transparency of global forest-related data in support of monitoring progress towards internationally agreed goals and targets, including the Paris Agreement." @FAO's Anssi Pekkarinen at #WFCKorea

@anssipek