Salvage logging is often a pretext for harvesting wood

Date:

March 27, 2018

Source:

University of Würzburg

Summary:

An increasing proportion of the world's protected forests are subject to extensive logging activities. The practice is called 'salvage logging' and allegedly aims to protect, e.g. areas of windthrow against bark beetle infestation. However, a new study has found that this instrument is used far too often.

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Salvage logging in the Bavarian Forest National Park according to the national park regulations. Here, trees infested by bark beetles are extracted in a future core zone.

Credit: Reinhold Weinberger, Bavarian Forest National Park management

Marine ecologists study the effects of giant kelp on groups of organisms in the underwater forest ecosystem

Date:

March 14, 2018

Source:

University of California - Santa Barbara

Summary:

When British naturalist Charles Darwin traveled to the Galapagos Islands in 1835, he took notice of the giant kelp forests ringing the islands. He believed that if those forests were destroyed, a significant number of species would be lost. These underwater ecosystems, Darwin believed, could be even more important than forests on land.