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- Five facts you didn’t know about bamboo forests
Did you know? 1 Bamboo may cover as much as 50 million hectares of land In its most recent assessment, the Food and Agriculture Organisation reported there were 35 million hectares of bamboo around the world, growing in isolated patches, as part of mixed forests, or in wide swathes of pure bamboo forest
- The golden grass: Realizing the potential of bamboo
At the Global Bamboo and Rattan Congress, speakers discussed bamboo’s uses as an important tool for forest management Importantly, bamboo charcoal provides a fast-growing, legally harvestable source of renewable energy for rural communities, with a similar calorific value to other commonly used sources of biomass
- In China, the largest bamboo structure of its kind proclaims the plant . . .
Each bamboo arch comprising the Bamboo Eye Pavilion spans between 32 and 40 meters and stands nine meters tall Construction required more than 5,000 round-pole bamboo “culms,” or jointed stems – each between 8 and 10 centimeters in diameter and no more than 6 years old The rapid maturity of bamboo is an important factor in its value for sustainable development: because the plant
- Growing Bamboo: A Private Sector Approach to REDD+
US based EcoPlanet Bamboo is industrializing bamboo, produced under stringent protocols and procedures and developed around a framework of positive social and environmental impact as a private sector mechanism that has the potential to contribute towards addressing a major driver of deforestation, regenerate fragmented forest ecosystems and
- Why the Philippines should plant more native trees
The Bohol Man-Made Forest Photo: Mark Ramirez, Unsplash The approximately 20,000 hectares of land were reforested with thousands of mahogany trees (Swietenia macrophylla), which is why it’s also named the Bohol Mahogany Forest More than half a century later, the once ash-covered land has survived and been regreened with vegetation, but the mahogany trees, which are a non-native species in
- Can carbon markets boost nature-based solutions to climate change?
Burgers suggested planting a new bamboo forest in open areas occupied by cattle, leaving little room for questions about whether the landscape was more climate conscious than before
- How Amazon deforestation could trigger a climate tipping point
The Amazon is the world’s largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest – but deforestation could push it past a climate tipping point by 2040
- 100 million hectares in Africa under restoration by 2030
Words from an expert: Joary Niaina Andriamiharimanana, Technical advisor for forest landscape restoration in Madagascar, German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) On successes so far “Africa has by far the biggest potential for forest landscape restoration worldwide, with an estimated 700 million hectares of degraded land and
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