Topic: Grasslands

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Reforestation programs could threaten vast area of tropical grasslands

  2024-02-29 (or before) in Science Daily

New research reveals the scale of inappropriate reforestation projects across Africa. A new study reveals that an area the size of France is threatened by forest restoration initiatives, such as the AFR100 initiative (African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative), due to inappropriate restoration in the form of tree-planting.

  Tagged under: Carbon Offsetting | Trees | Africa | Grasslands

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Risk to rely on soil carbon sequestration to offset global ruminant emissions - Nature Communications

  2023-11-22 in Nature

While accounting for intrinsic differences between short- and long-lived greenhouse gases, solely relying on soil carbon sequestration in grasslands to offset warming effect of emissions from current ruminant systems is not feasible

  Tagged under: Grasslands

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As Canada’s boreal forests burn again and again, they won’t grow back the same way - The Globe and Mail

  2023-08-25 in The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis

Recurring wildfires are giving young coniferous forests too little time to mature, and leafy trees, shrubs and grasslands are taking hold in new, unfamiliar ecosystems

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Trees | Grasslands

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Leaked EU anti-deforestation law omits fragile grasslands and wetlands

  2021-09-14 in The Guardian

Campaigners say draft regulation contains many loopholes, including exclusion of Cerrado and Pantanal

  Tagged under: Grasslands | Wetlands | Deforestation | European Union | Trees

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Chronicle of a Grassland Saved

  2020-02-21 in A new nature blog

For those of us of a certain age, The Milky Bar Kid was part of our childhood. A boy, dressed as a cowboy, implored us to eat white chocolate  – which was not particularly popular back then. …

  Tagged under: Farming | Cattle and Dairy Farming | UK | Grasslands | Conservation

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