Wild animals: The original and best carbon-capture ‘technology’

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Seed dispersal disruption limits tropical forest regrowthJuly 2025

by ACC Admin | Jul 24, 2025 | 2025, Peer Reviewed Scientific Paper, Resources, Technical / Scientific

Many trees depend on animals for seed dispersal, and human activities that disrupt seed dispersal by animals may impact forest regeneration and carbon storage. Yet whether expected negative impacts are observable across regrowing forests remains untested. We modeled...

Context matters when rewilding for climate changeFebruary 2024

by ACC Admin | Feb 15, 2024 | 2024, Peer Reviewed Scientific Paper, Report, Resources, Technical / Scientific

There is a crosssectoral push among conservationists to simultaneously mitigate biodiversity loss and climate change especially as the latter increasingly threatens the former Growing evidence demonstrates that animals can have substantial impacts on carbon cycling As...

Submission of views and information on biodiversity and climate changeMay 2023

by ACC Admin | May 25, 2023 | 2023, More In-depth, Policy Document, Resources

On 14 April 2023, the CBD Secretariat issued a call for contributions on “Biodiversity and climate” to inform the process that guides the future work of the CBD. The GRA Secretariat prepared the below paper that was submitted on 25 May 2023 and co- signed by 12...

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