Study shows that 92.2 percent of tree cover loss in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and 48.2 percent in the Republic of Congo (ROC) is linked to small-scale shifting cultivation. Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) and World Resources Institute’s Congo team mapped the rural complex of DRC and ROC, with forest fragmentation to differentiate between the rural complex, fragmented forest and undisturbed forest. The DRC and ROC rural complex maps together enable better understanding which loss is caused by shifting cultivation cycling back to previously farmed areas, and which shows new deforestation, degradation or fragmentation.
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New map helps distinguish between cyclical farming and deforestation in the Congo Basin
Global Forest Watch, 16 Jan 2018
- Forest Sourcing
- Global Forest Watch
- Congo
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- 92.2 percent of tree cover loss
- cyclical farming
- Deforestation
- degradation
- Forest fragmentation
- fragmentation
- Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD)
- small-scale shifting cultivation
- Undisturbed forest
- World Resources Institute’s Congo
Assessing carbon stock value of forests is tricky business, study finds
Mongabay, 19 Feb 2015
A study recently published in Forest Ecology and Management examines the carbon stock value of forests in Guyana, finding dramatic differences between different kinds of cover and land-use types. Tropical forests are among the most valuable in terms of carbon stocks. Globally, tropical forests sequester about 2.4 billion metric tons, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. The new research found that carbon values differ according to forest type and usage pattern; for instance, carbon values from undisturbed forests cannot be applied in inhabited community lands.