New Maps To Show Carbon In Trees
WWF says that mapping and monitoring the carbon held
in tropical forests is a major step forward
to protect Bio Diversity and Today’s Climate.
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.
The new procedures to develop, for the first time, high resolution maps of stored carbon were the result of a collaboration between scientists from WWF’s Conservation Science Programme, WWF Peru, the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment (MINAM) and the Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica (ACCA).
“This is ground-breaking because we can now calculate, with unprecedented certainty, how much carbon is in forests and monitor the climate change-causing carbon emissions released as forests are damaged or destroyed” said Dr. George Powell of WWF’s Conservation Science Programme and a co-author of the study.
Source:WWF
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