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Central American wetlands under the Ramsar Convention

3rd January 20154th January 2019 Chapter 6 / Mangrove loss

This figure is referred to in the book as Table 6.3 (Page 126)

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Chapter 6

    • Chapter 6: Deforestation and Reforestation
  • Hurricane Mitch: exposing the causes and effects of deforestation
    • The physical transformation of Central America’s vegetation
    • The human effects of the process of deforestation
  • Rates of deforestation in the region
    • Change in forest cover, 1990 – 2010
    • Forest area, Central America
    • Criticisms of UN estimates of deforestation rates
  • Logging laws
    • Case study: Madenica
  • Illegal logging
    • Assassinated members of the Olancho Environmental Movement
    • Honduran death squad escapes justice
    • Living on the Front Line
    • Honduras is among the leaders in destruction of forests
    • Illegal logging continues
    • Illegally logged precious wood seized, Nicaragua
    • UNES exposes illegal logging
    • Looking for the Bright Side of the Darién Gap
  • Carbon sequestration and carbon trading
    • Carbon emissions, Central America and comparisons
    • Carbon credits and carbon neutrality in Costa Rica
    • A carbon sequestration example from Guatemala
    • The Clean Development Mechanism in action in Honduras
    • Kyoto Carbon Trading Strategy Discredited
  • Seeing REDD
    • Raising funds for REDD
    • An indigenous perspective on the COP 16 summit
    • ‘Plantations are not forests’
    • Why REDD is wrong
  • Reforestation
    • Reforestation Efforts
  • Timber certification
    • Timber certification
  • Mangrove loss
    • Mangrove destruction [photo]
    • Central American wetlands under the Ramsar Convention
    • Gangsters in the mangroves
    • More on Honduran mangroves
    • Mangroves, Yes – Shrimp farms, No
  • Prospects
    • Community forestry in the Maya Biosphere Reserve

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