Ecological Problems

Old trees are among the oldest living organisms on our planet. There is something special about these old trees, not just because they h...

It is estimated that in 2012 deforestation should account for approximately 12% of global greenhouse gas emissions. As in previous ye...

Reducing global deforestation is very important because of several different reasons. As many of you already know deforestation is big env...

Tropical ecologist Rhett Harrison wrote in his latest study that the hunting can today be considered as the biggest threat to tropical biodi...

Sustainable forest management is one of the prerequisites for our future wellbeing. Why? Because forests are areas with rich biodiversity th...

Forests not only absorb vast quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2), they also have other vital functions such as help retain rainwater and keep...

Climate change will likely have devastating impact on our entire environment, and forests are no exception. Today we are worried by the mass...

Tropical forests are areas of the richest biodiversity on our planet, and they hold around half of all the plants and animal species on Eart...

Only one fifth of the world's forests remain, and current deforestation rates in some parts of the world threaten this small percentage ...

Forests and rainforests around the world are still disappearing at an alarming rate, and in general very little has been done to prevent def...

Not so long ago Cyprus was known as the "Green Island" of the Mediterranean but today forests cover less than 50% of Cyprus. Cypru...

Scientists predict that as global warming will certainly strengthen its impact in years to come so will tropical forests become more vulnera...

The world's tropical forests are making a very slow comeback because only 1,7 percent of rainforests that were cut down by humans is com...

One thing is sure - we need to save our forests because they play extremely important role against global warming by sinking carbon. But the...

Global warming caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions has become serious ecological problem. Infamous Kyoto protocol failed in its inte...

As many of you already know cutting down our fossil fuels emissions is the necessary step in fight against global warming. But forests can a...