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New funding to help University Herbarium identify and digitise globally-important specimens Cambridge University Herbarium’s new grant from the Isaac Newton Trust will fund a Special Collections Researcher to focus on identifying a significant proportion of the estimated 50,000 type specimens held in this extraordinary...

New UAV-based system enables efficient forest restoration monitoring Ecologists at the Conservation Research Institute have developed a new method of mapping early successional species in tropical forests using Unoccupied Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) to generate reference crown images with attached GPS, a system that will enable...

Modelling the future of soils in the world’s savanna-grasslands – new tools to help manage 24 million square km of drylands A new grant from the ERC's ‘Starting Grants’ scheme will fund studies to improve carbon credit schemes in dryland areas by boosting our grasp of the effects of periodic fire events on carbon capture...

New evidence suggests that REDD+ projects in the tropics have helped reduce deforestation, particularly in regions of rapid land use change Tropical deforestation and degradation are significant contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions. Projects aimed at Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (...