Thinking about Solutions
We help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by implementing several projects in Africa and Asia aimed at decreasing forest loss. Deforestation and degradation of forests contribute around 15% of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. Therefore, improving forest management could help mitigate anthropogenically-driven climate change.
Climate change is then expected to cause spatio-temporal shifts in environmental conditions. Because some species will not be able to track their optimal habitat conditions, they could face a possible increase in their extinction risk. Assisted colonization, a form of translocation, has been proposed as a tool to help reduce this risk. ZSL is currently exploring ways to improve the efficiency of such strategies.
Assisted colonization as a conservation tool
60 seconds with...Alienor Chauvenet, on her project
REDD schemes and biodiversity conservation in Indonesia
There are a couple of ways one can think about solutions to climate change: (1) one can focus on approaches to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, (2) one can focus on means to adapt to future climatic conditions. At ZSL, we do both.
The Berbak Carbon Initiative 