Questions about forestry & plantations
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Questions regarding forestry and the generalities of trees? Curious about the work we do in our plantations and their future? In this group you´ll be able to get a glimpse of several key forestry topics and the nature of the projects we lead!

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 Indonesia and Brazil are well known for the deforestation they suffer. They are however not the only ones. Help the community discover which other countries are in a similar postions by posting their names here.


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One year ago I went in Malaysia during three weeks and was terribly sad to see that there are so many oil-palms forests replacing the old native forests in this beautiful country. Maybe we could have a plantation somewhere in Malaysia.
 I recently red this article about Russia. I think we should know better what's happeing in this country.

here, some news about Russia: 

- Holding almost 50% of the northern hemisphere’s terrestrial carbon, Russia’s natural forest resources play a vital role in regulating climate change.
- Recent estimates of rates of deforestation in Russia’s forests are as high as 20,000 km2 annually, comparable to the annual rate of forest clearing in the Brazilian Amazon Basin.
- The main pressure on Russian forests is caused by timber extraction
- Illegal felling is increasing, and now accounts for 30 per cent of the total felling volume (in some regions up to 70 per cent)
- Forest fires are also a major threat to the region. The average annual forest loss due to fire is approximately one to three million hectares
- Fires in Siberian forests, often started illegally and deliberately by rogue timber firms planning to sell cheap lumber to China, have increased tenfold in the last 20 years.
The massive forest fires in Siberia in 2003 are said to have released as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as the total EU reduction commitment under the Kyoto protocol.
- Thawing permafrost could also potentially increase emissions as a huge amount of carbon stored in Russia’s forests is locked in peat that is currently frozen within the permafrost.
 ¡Tenemos que parar la deforestación sea en el lugar que sea! No deberíamos dejar que los bosques tropicales sean talados. ¡Salvemos el "pulmón de la Tierra", porque es posible!

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