
Community Forests International
@CanadaTrees
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Enabling people and forests to thrive together through community-led climate solutions.
Sackville, New Brunswick
Joined June 2013
We're honoured to be featured in this special edition of Tropical Forest Issues! Together, these stories provide tangible and economic evidence that agroforestry can serve as a vital tool for climate and community resilience.
๐๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ง๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ฎ: Agroforestry at work! ๐ณ.As we celebrate the International Day of (Agro-)Forests, we are excited to share our latest publication โAgroforestry at Workโ. ๐ #IntlForestDay
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If you have experience in project administration and a passion for environmental sustainability, we want to hear from you! ๐.
forestsinternational.org
Community Forests International is committed to employment equity in our workplace and encourages applications from underrepresented groups such as Black, Indigenous, and persons of colour, persons...
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We're excited to begin the ZanzADAPT Project: working to build community-led solutions that empower women, and foster gender equality and resilience to the increasing challenges of a changing climate. Stay tuned for more information coming soon!.
Canada ๐จ๐ฆ is delighted to launch the Zanzibar Women Leadership in Adaptation Project (ZanzADAPT) with @CanadaTrees, focusing on nature-based and gender-responsive climate adaptation and conservation. It is part of Canada's $5.3 billion global commitment to address #climatechange.
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According to recent studies in @Nature, global forest carbon storage is currently below its natural potential. There is a deficit of 226 Gt in areas with low human activity.
nature.com
Nature - Analysis of ground-sourced and satellite-derived models reveals a global forest carbon potential of 226 Gt outside agricultural and urban lands, with a difference of only 12% across these...
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RT @corporateknight: Tree planting in the face of Canada's worst wildfire season. As @trinamoyles reports, reforestation isn't as simple asโฆ.
corporateknights.com
In the wake of the worst wildfire season on record in Canada, it isnโt as simple as just planting more trees
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RT @ahmedkherlid: Constractive Meeting with the Management of @ForestPemba and @CanadaTrees in my Office Pemba.
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Featured in the recent @HalifaxExaminer, read more about our friends and partners at @AsitulskUEC and how they are working to heal the hemlocks:.
halifaxexaminer.ca
Ulnooweg Education Centre looking for volunteers to help protect hemlocks in one of the last strongholds of the Wabanaki-Acadian forest.
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Businesses must navigate an increasing supply of carbon opportunities. So how can they avoid projects that fail to deliver their promised emission reductions or community benefits? . Letโs take a look. @FinTechMagazine.
fintech.ca
In todayโs fast-evolving corporate landscape, climate change is increasingly recognized as a critical factor affecting business operations and public relations. As companies face mounting pressure to...
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RT @ClimateInstit: As climate change makes forests drier and hotter, fires start more easily, spread farther & are harder to put out. Drieโฆ.
cbc.ca
We reviewed historical data to get a sense of the changing nature of wildfires in the country. Overall, there are fewer fires, but an increase in area burned and number of people displaced.
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You can watch Mitata and more of the Common Ground films on our channel:.
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Through storytelling, knowledge-sharing, and community-building, we are working to bring together communities of family forest owners, Indigenous communities...
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A huge congratulations to Desmond Simon for winning Best Atlantic Film award at the @film_outdoors! . We're honoured to have helped create this film as part of our Common Ground short film series.
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Have you picked up the latest copy of @AtlanticBus?. Our own Megan de Graaf shares how adaptive forest management can mitigate the risk of wildfires while supporting the Wabanaki Forest to thrive in our rapidly changing climate.
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RT @jeff_schnurr: Canada has continued to simplify our forests - transitioning them to single species monocultures for low value pulpwood.โฆ.
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Says @bsaxifrage in @NatObserver, there is an urgent need to address the drivers of forest carbon losses, such as industrial logging and fossil fuel burning, to defuse the carbon bomb in Canada's forests.
nationalobserver.com
Unrelenting logging and fossil fuel burning have flipped one of the planet's largest forests from a critical CO2 sink into a surging CO2 source. This year's climate-fuelled wildfires are the latest...
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Our partners at @AsitulskUEC are recruiting volunteers to help #HealTheHemlocks!. ๐ณTree Marking Week: Aug 28 - Sept 1.โค๏ธโ๐ฉนTreatment Week: Sept 11-17. There are a number of volunteer positions available, regardless of your skills and experience:
asitulsk.ca
With your donation, we will be able to build a stronger foundation and see our dreams through to the future.
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#IndigenousPeoplesDay might be over, but the efforts of Indigenous Peoples to protect and restore the land, ecosystems, and relationships to nature continue every day.
bbc.com
In Canada, centring conservation with the country's indigenous peoples is allowing its original stewards to reconnect to their land and culture โ and proving remarkably effective.
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