last year's #seasonal feature calling to #celebrate ancient living #trees rather than cutting millions of #conifers is now in the #openArchives. #FreeAccess for all: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/12/lets-celebrate-trees.html
#science #plants #ecology #forests #xmas #christmas

Cameroon’s coastal fisheries are in decline as mangroves — crucial breeding grounds for fish — are cleared for urban growth, agriculture, sand mining and fuelwood.

In response, the government and NGOs plan to restore 1,000 hectares by 2050, working with local communities on replanting and alternative livelihoods.

by Ngala Chimtom
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/as-fish-catches-fall-and-seas-rise-doualas-residents-join-efforts-to-restore-mangroves/

#news #mangroves #forests #deforestation #fish #conservation #biodiversity

Burned trees are seen through morning mist, in the aftermath of a wildfire near Arganil, #Portugal, September 11. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes

#photography
#wildfires
#forests

Uganda’s Echuya Forest Reserve will become a national park, a move welcomed by conservationists working to protect the vulnerable African golden cat.

Forest-dependent and heavily threatened by snaring, the elusive cat may benefit as national parks increasingly act as species strongholds, alongside new community programs offering alternatives to bushmeat.

by Sean Mowbray
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/small-cat-conservationists-hail-ugandas-new-echuya-forest-national-park/

#news #wildlife #forests #conservation #biodiversity #bigcats

An evacuation order after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake uprooted Hiromichi Sato from his hometown of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture. He is now looking to revitalize the town through forestry. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/15/japan/society/fukushima-forestry/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #fukushima #namie #forests #311 #radiation #fukushimano1

I love how beeches hold on to those leaves far past Fall.

Beeches on Rice Camp Trail in the Cohutta Wilderness --> https://www.nateshivar.com/32120/beeches-on-rice-camp-trail-in-the-cohutta-wilderness/

#ChattahoocheeOconeeNationalForest #CohuttaWilderness #Forests #Trees

#News: African swine fever has wiped out wild boars, leaving hungry Amur #tigers raiding villages in #Siberia— it's not their fault! Protect #forests #indigenous sovreignty and tiger habitats for them 🧐☠️ #Boycott4Wildlife #Deforestation @palmoildetect https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/10/siberian-amur-tiger-endangered-russia-siberia-killings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#Bats 🦇 are super seed dispersers in #forests all over the world. Discover how the straw-coloured fruit #bat is saving #Africa’s forests. Yet they’re endangered by #deforestation. Help them and go #vegan #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-90u?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

10-Dec-2025
#NewSpecies of tiny pumpkin toadlet discovered in #Brazil highlights need for #conservation in the mountain #forests of Serra do Quiriri

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1108329

#science #ecology #amphibians

.. equally astonishing to me was this map, a foldout from the back of a small pamphlet titled 'Hamburg as Market for Overseas Wood 1795-1920'.

This diagram of timber #extraction routes shows how, in this period, all #forests flowed to Hamburg. It's also eerily reminiscent of contemporary fibre-optic network diagrams.

All Season's Tree. A colorful celebration!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/all-seasons-tree-colorful-art-sharon-cummings.html

#tree #trees #treebranches #colorful #colorfulart #colorfulgift #colorfulgifts #season #seasons #art #artwork #fediart #mastoart #SharonCummingsArt #fedigiftshop #forest #forests #handmade #handmadeart #handmadeartwork

#Cretaceous #Forests were lush, diverse, and highly productive, thriving in a warm, high-CO2 world with ice-free poles supporting temperate rainforests even in #Antarctica.

It created varied landscapes from polar evergreens to tropical jungles with abundant ferns, cycads, and unique insects, all supported by massive growth rates fueled by atmospheric carbon.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/kbits/6936905f153b881fa8a08915

Walhi Urges Forestry Ministry to Revoke Permits of Companies Linked to Sumatra Floods - Environment En.tempo.co
https://en.tempo.co/read/2072288/walhi-urges-forestry-ministry-to-revoke-permits-of-companies-linked-to-sumatra-floods
#Indomesia #forests #floods #nature

The growing population of #India’s mighty #tiger 🐯🐅is lauded as a conservation success story. However more remains to be done to safeguard India’s #forests #animals and #mangroves for the future 🙏🇮🇳🪷 #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8V5?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#Christmas is a time for celebration 🎅🎄 This #holiday season try 10 yummy, #palmoilfree and #Vegan #recipes. Good for #forests, #animals 🦧🦏🐘🐒🐍 and your #health 🥦🍆 Use your wallet as a weapon, #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/12/10/palm-oil-free-and-vegan-christmas-recipes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

❓Did you know that #soil is a dynamic #ecosystem that supports 95% of all the food we eat, filters every drop of our drinking water, and silently stores more carbon than all the world’s #forests and the atmosphere combined?
While an estimated 75% of our soils are already degraded, current trends suggest that - without coordinated intervention- up to 90% of the planet’s land surface could be degraded by 2050😮.
What can be done to address this?
Read more here #GeoLog: https://egu.eu/5K6B6K

It is #ForestFriday! New month, new season! We welcome you to share your forest-related images (with snow or sans snow) with the hashtag #ForestFriday. All people are welcome as well as any art form. #EastCoastKin #Hiking #Forests #Fungi

Check out this guest essay in Brief Ecology on clubmosses, the oldest group of vascular plants and a source of green biodiversity in the winter woods

https://www.briefecology.com/p/the-quiet-persistence-of-clubmosses?r=1x8f3o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#ecology #plants #forests #biodiversity