Okefenokee!! The Department of the Interior has provided the green light to move ahead with a World Heritage nomination (after receiving over 10,000 letters of support) for the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.
Some very good news: in April the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues held regional dialogues as part of its 22nd session and 80×25 was discussed…and included in their final report!
See the new Amazonia for Life: Protect 80×25 website!
Please see Griffith University’s website for our research and policy partnership (and many publications) on primary forests with Griffith, Wild Europe, Australian Rainforest Conservation Society, Woodwell Climate Research Institute and many others!
More than 70 groups have launched the Climate Forests Campaign calling on the Biden administration to take executive action to protect mature trees and forests on federal lands to fight climate change and protect biodiversity. Last January President Biden signed Executive Order 10048, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, pledging to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by 2050.
Read our latest publication on Mature, Old-growth Forests.
January 2024 – December 2024 National forest falls short on conservation targets September 23, 2024 Wild Heritage’s…
Golden State Natural Resources (GSNR) and Drax target forests to establish large wood pellet plants in California.
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/uks-drax-targets-california-forests-for-two-major-wood-pellet-plants/
Read the letter by scientists to President Biden, Secretary Haaland, Senator Schumer, and Advisor Zaidi – to oppose legislation that would privatize 115,200 acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, opening up more than 80,000 acres of old-growth forests to logging, mining and other natural resource extraction interests.
Read the comments On Notice of Intent To Amend Region 5 And 6 Forest Plans Under The Northwest Forest Plan.
Scientists call for a moratorium to protect Mature and Old Growth, and large trees.
January 2023 – December 2023 A nature-based solution to restore and adapt western US dry forests to…
Read about our 2023 accomplishments in Primary and Old Growth forest protection in North America and globally.
Read about climate-responsible forestry as Wild Heritage’s Chief Scientist, Dominick A. DellaSala discusses how to decarbonize forestry by protecting MOG and primary forests in Northstar’s Climate Rescue Plan.
See our new publication on An Ecoregional Conservation Assessment for the Mogollon Highlands Ecoregion of AZ & NM
Scientists urge Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau to now recognize and address forest degradation domestically, properly defined according to ecological, rather than economic, indicators, and to support, rather than hinder, global policymaking that advances efforts to halt and reverse forest degradation, in alignment with the Glasgow Declaration.
Read how home hardening and defensible space pave the way to protecting communities in this primer by Wild Heritage’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Dominick A. DellaSala: