REDD

An ecological tragedy has been happening in Madagascar since January arousing a great number of reactions at national and international level. Logging of endemic precious wood – rosewood, palisandre and ebony – has been flourishing more than ever this year due to the political crisis. "Logging of precious wood can have severe impacts on both the forest and indigenous peoples," anticipated Erik R. Patel of Cornell University, USA, in December 2007.

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Le drame écologique se produisant à Madagascar depuis janvier a suscité un grand nombre de réactions au niveau national et international. Le trafic de bois précieux endémiques n’a jamais été aussi florissant que cette année à cause de la crise politique. « (…) les exploitations illicites de bois précieux pourraient (…) produire des effets néfastes autant pour les forêts que pour les communautés de base », a anticipé Erik R. Patel de l’université de Cornell, Etats-Unis, en décembre 2007.

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Papua New Guinea stands out clearly as an island country in the south pacific ocean that is vulnerable to ongoing impacts of climate change among other small island nations. Impacts of climate change are real in PNG as we have seen in recent times that, there has been a rise in sea levels covering the atolls near Bougainville and Siassi island; habitat loss for plant and animal species near Sepik river; and sea level rise covering coastal parts of Wewak and New Ireland.

IPACC has uploaded a series of interviews with indigenous African leaders about REDD. They are on the IPACC website:

http://ipacc.org.za/eng/resources_videos.asp

08/11/08 Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Damien Ase writes:
I am from Papua New Guinea and currently we are working on climate change campaign. It would be good to network and share information on climate change.

14/11/08 Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Damien Ase writes: