CARBON BOMB: Study in Journal Science Advances Says Climate Impact from Loss of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported

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Visit <a href="https://www.panthera.org/" target="_blank">panthera.org</a>.</p></div>', "ZSL": '<div class="boilerplate" data-item="ZSL"><span class="name text-bold">ZSL – Imagine a world without wildlife</span><p>An elephant is killed by poachers every fifteen minutes. Amphibians across the globe are facing an unparalleled disease epidemic. Fish numbers risk being matched by toxic plastic pollutants within a decade. The world’s wildlife populations have halved in just 40 years. These can be changed if we act now. International conservation charity the Zoological Society of London is working for wildlife around the world to ensure no one has to imagine a world without wildlife. Find out how to get involved at <a href="https://www.zsl.org/withwildlife" target="_blank">www.zsl.org/withwildlife</a> or join the campaign online using #WithWildlife.</p></div>', "MacArthur Foundation": '<div class="boilerplate" data-item="MacArthur Foundation"><span class="name text-bold">The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation</span><p>The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing capital for the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Foundation continues its historic commitments to the role of journalism in a responsible and responsive democracy; the strength and vitality of our headquarters city, Chicago; and generating new knowledge about critical issues.</p> </div>', "Animal Planet": '<div class="boilerplate" data-item="Animal Planet"><span class="name text-bold">Animal Planet</span><p>Animal Planet, a multi-media business unit of Discovery Communications, is the network of hit franchise series and special programming dedicated to animals and the natural world that includes RIVER MONSTERS, DR. JEFF: ROCKY MOUNTAIN VET, PIT BULLS & PAROLEES, TANKED, TREEHOUSE MASTERS, THE VET LIFE and PUPPY BOWL, the largest non-sports TV event on Super Bowl Sunday. Animal Planet is the premiere TV, digital and social community for all things animal, providing immersive, engaging, high-quality content across all Animal Planet platforms including: Animal Planet television network, available in more than 90 million homes in the U.S., that is complimented with a deep Video On Demand offering; online assets <a href="https://www.animalplanet.com" target="_blank">www.animalplanet.com</a>, the ultimate online destination for animal lovers and pet owners; the Animal Planet Go app that allows viewers to catch up on full episodes of their favorite shows anytime anywhere; Animal Planet L!VE, the go-to digital destination for round-the-clock, unfiltered access via live cameras around the globe in a variety of animal habitats; Animal Planet Social including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram via @AnimalPlanet and on Snapchat as AnimalPlanetTV. </p></div>', "ACE": '<div class="boilerplate" data-item="ACE"><span class="name text-bold">ACE</span><p> The Mission of ACE is to honor and appreciate a legacy of conservation through recognition of men and women who share their passion to conserve the great outdoors, and have made extraordinary contributions to the sustainability of nature and wildlife. The Award will recognize a conservationist’s long-term commitment to making our planet a better place, and empower people in both local and international communities to advance wildlife conservation.</p></div>', "Doris Duke Charitable Foundation": '<div class="boilerplate" data-item="Doris Duke Charitable Foundation"><span class="name text-bold">Doris Duke Charitable Foundation</span><p>The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is to improve the quality of people\'s lives through grants supporting the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research and child well-being, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke\'s properties. The foundation’s Environment Program seeks to enable communities to protect and manage wildlife habitat and create efficient built environments. An awareness of climate change as the greatest emerging threat to biodiversity—and the need to aggressively mitigate it without unnecessarily sacrificing wildlife habitat—shapes the Environment Program’s grant-making priorities. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.ddcf.org" target="_blank">ddcf.org</a>.</p></div>', "WCS Conservation Solutions": '<div class="boilerplate" data-item="WCS Conservation Solutions"><span class="name text-bold">WCS Conservation Solutions</span><p>Conservation Solutions partners with over 3,000 field staff across 60 countries around the biggest challenges facing WCS\'s long-term conservation efforts: climate change, sustainable financing, economic and food security, and data and science gaps. Leveraging WCS\'s 100-year leadership in science and field conservation, Conservation Solutions is also home to some of our newest, most innovative partnerships that transcend boundaries, including the MacArthur-funded Intact Forests initiative to protect the world\'s vital carbon stores, the European Union-funded WILDMEAT Initiative, the USAID Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group, the Science for Nature and People Partnership, and the Doris Duke Climate Adaptation Fund. Working at multiple scales-- from indigenous engagement to global policy fora--Conservation Solutions helps WCS and its partners deliver on a mission to save the world\’s wildlife and wild places, for all people and for generations to come. For more information, email <a href="mailto:cssnyc@wcs.org">cssnyc@wcs.org</a>.</p></div>', "EarthRanger": '<div class="boilerplate" data-item="EarthRanger"><span class="name text-bold">EarthRanger</span><p><a href="http://earthranger.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EarthRanger</a> is a data visualization and analysis system giving conservationists the real-time information they need to keep wildlife, habitats and communities safe. It collects, integrates and displays remote sensing data and field reports to effectively monitor collared wildlife, rangers, enforcement assets and infrastructure within protected areas and landscapes. The application of EarthRanger is diverse and varies relative to the primary needs of the area or organization. Among them, the platform is used to monitor vast areas, track and study wildlife, coordinate ranger units and proactively mitigate human-wildlife conflict.<br><br>The EarthRanger program has been in place for over seven years and has reduced threats to biodiversity and habitats in over 500 protected areas across 60 countries and on six continents. It has facilitated the reintroduction and restoration of diverse species and ecosystems that deliver global environmental and socioeconomic benefits. Follow EarthRanger’s work on <a href="http://twitter.com/earthrangertech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://facebook.com/earthrangertech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/earthrangertech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/earthrangertech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEEL8UKsa4gXgwoa7g0w2dA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a>.</p></div>', "WCS Conservation Technology": '<div class="boilerplate" data-item="WCS Conservation Technology"><span class="name text-bold">WCS Conservation Technology</span><p><a href="https://constech.wcs.org">WCS’s Conservation Technology</a> program empowers front-line conservationists with the tools they need to execute their mission and enables both data-driven decision-making and stakeholder engagement by providing a suite of tools to manage, explore, and visualize data. We achieve these goals through a core team that partners with peer organizations, the private sector, and academia to create compelling and globally scaled technology solutions.<br><br>Through a network of trainers and hubs, we support and nurture the next generation of conservation technology leaders. And, together with our partners, we are creating the technology that will power field conservation for decades to come to transforming humanity’s ability to preserve life on Earth. <br><br>For more information, visit <a href="https://constech.wcs.org">https://constech.wcs.org</a></p></div>', "Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS)": '<div class="boilerplate" data-item="Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS)"><span class="name text-bold">Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS)</span><p>Founded in 2012, <a href="https://wildlifeprotectionsolutions.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS)</a> is a dedicated non-profit organization based in Denver, committed to safeguarding the world’s most vulnerable species and ecosystems. We leverage innovative technology and expertise to monitor, protect, and help preserve biodiversity across more than 200 locations globally. Our mission is to build and deploy practical technology for the conservation of endangered species and ecosystems globally. <br><br>At WPS, we understand that the challenges facing wildlife and ecosystems are complex and require smart, scalable solutions. Our team works tirelessly to develop and deploy wpsWatch, a monitoring tool featuring artificial intelligence, remote monitoring, workflow and integration tools to facilitate the protection of wildlife and their habitats. As a member of the SMART Partnership, Gundi, and an EarthRanger implementation provider, we help our field collaborators turn field information into actionable insights, enabling them to make data-driven decisions to protect endangered species and their environments.   Through these partnerships, we amplify our impact, share knowledge, and drive innovation in the field of wildlife protection.</p><br>Learn more about how you can get involved and make a difference at<a href="https://wildlifeprotectionsolutions.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> www.WildlifeProtectionSolutions.org</a>.</p></div>' }; </script> <script> $(".c_DNN > h1.Title").detach(); </script> <div class="text-terciary text-center text-bold fontFamily-2 pad-top-5 pad-top-4"> <a href="/News-Releases.aspx" class="text-terciary">WCS NEWS RELEASE</a> </div> <div class="article"> <div class="article-titles text-center"> <h1>CARBON BOMB: Study in Journal Science Advances Says Climate Impact from Loss of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported</h1> <h3 class="summary-item"><ul><li><strong>READ THE STUDY: <a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaax2546">https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaax2546</a></strong></li><li><strong>New numbers reveal a staggering increase in the carbon impacts – 626 percent higher than previously thought – due to losses of intact tropical forest between 2000 and 2013 </strong></li><li><strong>Figure is equivalent to approximately two years of global land-use change emissions</strong></li><li><strong>Dramatic spike in numbers comes from factoring in full carbon accounting over the long term, including selective logging, edge effects, and</strong> <strong>wildlife loss </strong></li><li><strong>The study also factored in forgone carbon removals – carbon sequestration that would occur had cleared or degraded forest remained intact after year 2000.</strong></li><li><strong>Authors warn that the climate change mitigation benefits from remaining intact tropical forest will soon dwindle if their rate of loss continues to accelerate.</strong></li><li><strong>2.1 million square miles (549 million hectares) of tropical intact forests remain, but the extent is declining rapidly. </strong></li></ul></h3> <div class="location fontFamily-2 text-bold"> <span class="place text-xxs text-uppercase">NEW YORK</span> <span class="place text-xxs text-uppercase">, N.Y. | </span> <span class="date text-xxs text-uppercase">October 30, 2019 </span> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-9"> <div class="article-main"> <div class="articleImages"> <div class="flexslider"> <ul class="slides"> <li data-thumb="/Portals/164/road for oil plantations in West Kalimantan Indonesia credit Rainforest Action Netwrok.jpg" style="position:relative;" > <img src="/dnnimagehandler.ashx?mode=file&file=/Portals/164/road for oil plantations in West Kalimantan Indonesia credit Rainforest Action Netwrok.jpg&w=785&h=500&resizemode=crop" alt="Road for oil plantations in West Kalimantan Indonesia CREDIT Rainforest Action Network"/> <span class="credits"> Road for oil plantations in West Kalimantan Indonesia CREDIT Rainforest Action Network</span> </li> </ul> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> $('.articleImage').detach(); $(document).ready(function(){ $('.flexslider').flexslider({ animation: "slide", directionNav: false }); }); </script> </div> <div class="article-body"> <p style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong>NEW YORK (<span style="color: red;">EMBARGOED UNTIL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019, 2:00 PM USET</span>) – </strong>A new <a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaax2546">study</a> in the journal <em>Science Advances</em> says that carbon impacts from the loss of <a href="https://www.wcs.org/our-work/solutions/climate-change/intact-forests">intact tropical forests</a> has been grossly underreported. </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">The study calculates new figures relating to intact tropical forest lost between 2000-2013 that show a staggering increase of 626 percent in the long-term net carbon impacts through 2050. The revised total equals two years’ worth of all global land-use change emissions.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">The authors of the study, from WCS, University of Queensland, University of Oxford, Zoological Society of London, World Resources Institute, University of Maryland, and University of Northern British Columbia, found that direct clearance of intact tropical forests resulted in just 3.2 percent of gross carbon emissions from all deforestation across the pan-tropics. However, when they factored in full carbon accounting, which considers forgone carbon removals (carbon sequestration that would occur annually into the future if cleared or degraded forest had remained intact after year 2000), selective logging, edge effects and declines of carbon-dense tree species due to overhunting of seed-dispersing animals, they discovered that the figure skyrocketed by a factor of more than six times. </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">Said the study’s lead author Sean Maxwell of WCS and the University of Queensland: “Our results revealed that continued destruction of intact tropical forests is a ticking time bomb for carbon emissions. There is an urgent need to safeguard these landscapes because they play an indispensable role in stabilizing the climate.” </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">According to 2013 estimates, 549 million acres of intact tropical forests remain. Only 20 percent of tropical forests can be considered “intact,” but those areas store some 40 percent of the above-ground carbon found in all tropical forests.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: black;">The authors say that intact forest retention rarely attracts funding from schemes designed to avoid land-use and land cover change emissions in developing nations. </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: black;">Notably, the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) approach enables developing countries to receive financial incentives for enhancing carbon stocks, or avoiding the loss of carbon that would otherwise be emitted due to land-use and land cover change. Among other activities, REDD+ covers support for conservation of forests not under immediate threat, and was formally adopted by parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2008 at the 14th Conference of the Parties in Poland. Since then, however, financial support and implementation has predominantly focused on areas with high historical rates of deforestation (i.e. ‘deforestation frontiers’). </span>This is widely believed to deliver more immediate and more clearly demonstrable emission reductions than conserving intact forest areas. The latter tend to be treated as negligible sources of emissions as a result of the short timescales and conservative assumptions under which REDD+ operates – assumptions which the present study suggests are causing key opportunities to be missed.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">Said WCS’s Tom Evans, a co-author of the study: “The relative value of retaining intact tropical forest areas increases if one takes a longer-term view and considers the likely state of the world’s forests by mid-century - a milestone date in the Paris Agreement. Agricultural expansion, logging, infrastructure and fires reduced the global extent of intact forests by 7.2 percent between 2000 and 2013 alone, yet the eventual carbon emissions locked in by these losses have not been comprehensively estimated.”</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">The authors go on to say that a comparable analysis is needed for intact forests outside of the tropics such as the boreal forests of Canada and Russia, given that approximately half to two-thirds of carbon removals on earth’s intact ecosystems occur outside the tropics. Without this global clean-up service, CO<sub>2</sub> from human activities would accumulate in the atmosphere markedly faster than it does at present.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">Said co-author James Watson of WCS and the University of Queensland: “Clearly, the climate mitigation potential of retaining intact forests is significant, but without proactive conservation action by national governments, supported by the global community, this potential will continue to dwindle.  </p> <p><span style="background: white; color: black;">At least 35 percent of the intact forests studied are home to, and protected by, Indigenous Peoples. Intact forests also provide exceptional levels of many other environmental services – for example they protect watersheds much better than degraded forests, return moisture to the air that falls in distant regions as rain, and help to keep vast numbers of species safe from extinction. W</span>hen compared to forests that have been degraded by large-scale human activities, intact forests are more resistant to shocks such as fire and drought and usually less accessible to logging and agriculture conversion, <span style="background: white; color: black;">making them one of our best conservation bets in the face of a rapidly changing climate.</span></p> <p>###</p> <p> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt;">This research is an output of the <a href="https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/13109/Forests-for-Life-New-Global-Partnership-Targets-Planets-Great-Forests-for-Urgent-Protection.aspx">Forest for Life Partnership</a> and also supports the <a href="https://www.trilliontrees.org/">Trillion Trees</a> vision that by 2050 one trillion trees have been restored, saved from loss, and better protected around the world.</p> </div> </div> <div class="hidden-xs"> <hr/> <div id="boilerplate"> <div id="boilerplate-list" class="hide">WCS, , </div>  </div> </div> </div> <div id="article-column" class="col-md-3"> <hr class="margin-top-0" /> <div class="pad-top-2"> <ul class="article-references fontFamily-2 terciary_style"> <li id="mediaContacts"> <strong class="h3 text-bold text-terciary fontFamily-1">Media Contacts</strong> <div id="contact-list" class="hide">Stephen Sautner, </div>  </li> <li> <strong id="title-resources" class="h3 text-bold text-terciary fontFamily-1 margin-0" style="display:none;">Resources</strong> <ul class="article-resources list-unstyled"> <li> <a href="https://doi.org/https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaax2546" class="text-default" target="_blank"> <strong>Read</strong> Publication</a> </li> </ul> <ul class="article-resources list-unstyled"> <li> <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u554trkepwtaxy2/AAC1kOG4tYEam2iuZ9mIwj5_a?dl=0" target="_blank" class="text-default"> <strong>Download</strong> Photos</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gW0q5w4F00&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" class="text-default"> <strong>Watch</strong> Video</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <strong class="text-xxs text-bold text-color1 fontFamily-2">CATEGORIES</strong> <br /> <a href="https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/CategoryView/categoryId/123/Global-Conservation.aspx" > Global Conservation</a>, <a href="https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/CategoryView/categoryId/177/Discover.aspx" > Discover</a>, <a href="https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/CategoryView/categoryId/181/Protect.aspx" > Protect</a>, <a href="https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/CategoryView/categoryId/210/Climate-Change.aspx" > Climate Change</a>, <a href="https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/CategoryView/categoryId/214/Protected-Area-Planning-Creation-Management.aspx" > Protected Area Planning, Creation, Management</a> </li> <li> <strong class="text-xxs text-bold text-color1 fontFamily-2">TAGS</strong> <br /> <a href="https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/TagView.aspx?Tag=intact+forests">intact forests</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="deEditLink" class="hidden terciary_style text-bold fontFamily-2"> <a href="https://newsroom.wcs.org/NewsroomTagging/ctl/detail/mid/49297?denav=DnnForge_NewsArticles_Article|13450|ed" target="_blank">WCS Metadata</a> </div> <hr /> <div class="border-top"> <span class="h3 fontFamily-2"> <strong>Related</strong> News</span> <ul class="article-related row pad-top-2">   <li class="col-sm-12 col-xs-6"> <a href="https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/20980/SCIENTISTS-Want-to-Fight-Climate-Change-Dont-Poach-Gorillas-or-Elephants-Hornbills-Toucans-etc.aspx"> <img src="/dnnimagehandler.ashx?mode=file&file=/Portals/164/Forest Elephant © S.Ramsay_WCS.jpg&w=600&h=400&resizemode=crop"> </a> <div class="content"> <span class="place text-bold text-xxs text-uppercase"> NEW YORK,</span> <span class="place text-bold text-xxs text-uppercase">NY | </span> <span class="date text-bold text-xxs text-uppercase">August 29, 2023</span> <br /> <a href="https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/20980/SCIENTISTS-Want-to-Fight-Climate-Change-Dont-Poach-Gorillas-or-Elephants-Hornbills-Toucans-etc.aspx" class="text-xxl text-underlined text-darker">SCIENTISTS: Want to Fight Climate Change? 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