Intensive forest management weakens biodiversity and reduces the amount of forests valuable for biodiversity worldwide, including Finland. Research carried out at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) ...

Forests are great carbon sinks – they absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than they release. Globally, forests remove nearly all of the two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide that is currently being ...

African forest are increasingly in decline as a result of land-use conversion due to human activities. However, a consistent and detailed characterization and mapping of land-use change that results ...

Natural regeneration of tropical forests following deforestation and land degradation offers scalable and cost-effective opportunities for recovery of forest structure, return of native species and ...