Sunday, September 19, 2010

New maps show the carbon in the trees


Where the carbon is - image shows an area of road building and development adjacent to primary forest in red tones, and secondary forest regrowth in green tones

Lima, Peru: A revolutionary approach for mapping and monitoring the carbon held in tropical forests is a major step forward in protecting the climate and biodiversity, WWF said today.

Among new insights developed from mapping the carbon in the forests of the Madre de Dios, an area the size of Austria in Peru’s south-western Amazon region, is the significance of emissions from forest degradation.

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