http://conservationbytes.com/2009/06/04/tropical-forests-worth-more-standing/ Conservation research... with bite Tue, 29 May 2012 05:05:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://conservationbytes.com/2009/06/04/tropical-forests-worth-more-standing/#comment-13381 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:08:38 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2180#comment-13381 [...] which is the clever idea of trading carbon credits to keep forests intact. As we know, living forests can suck up a lot of carbon from the atmosphere (remember your high school biology lesson on photosynthesis? Carbon dioxide in. [...]

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/06/04/tropical-forests-worth-more-standing/#comment-9245 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:07:54 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2180#comment-9245 [...] palm is planted forest – It is not, either in terms of the amount of carbon it sequesters (see also here) or the biodiversity it supports (see above and Edwards et al. [...]

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/06/04/tropical-forests-worth-more-standing/#comment-2549 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:04:13 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2180#comment-2549 The best thing to be done for the cash crop is to not expanding the plantation area but increasing the production on available plantation area with new technologies.

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