NatCat losses driven by flood damage have escalated in Canada over the past decade, but the key to preventing these may be in your client’s backyard, one expert told Canadian Underwriter.
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Enabling people and forests to thrive together through community-led climate solutions.
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“If you work with these nature-based solutions and you invest in a forest project...adjacent communities are also going to be protected."
Our ED Daimen Hardie spoke with on forests as a natural climate, and insurance, solution.
We couldn't agree more! And did you know that although the western hemlock can grow almost twice as tall as its eastern counterpart, the eastern hemlock has a much longer lifespan?
Not that it's a competition.
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My favourites are hemlock and cedar. It feels magical to walk in a hemlock forest!
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We like them too!
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Yellow birch for sure
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The Wabanaki Forest comprises a wide variety of tree species with a range of ages, including long-lived and shade-tolerant species such as sugar maple, red spruce, eastern hemlock, yellow birch, cedar, and beech.
🌳Do you have a favourite?
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The bad news: 1/3 of New Brunswick's forests have been clear-cut in the last 25 years, leaving communities vulnerable to flooding.
The good news: We can #TakeAction today to restore and protect our shared forests and communities.
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Diverse forests are a stronger climate solution, confirms new research published in .
How? Greater functional diversity increases the carbon and nitrogen stored in the soil of natural forests🌳
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"Mother Trees" act as central hubs, sharing their excess carbon and nitrogen through the fungal network with the younger seedlings in the understory. This helps increase the survival rate of the seedlings and creates a healthy #forest ecosystem!
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Nature-based solutions offer cheaper and more effective ways to manage river floods and erosion. We need to protect existing forests in NB which can reduce flood damage and ensure our communities are more #resilient to a changing climate.
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More research is in.
Protecting and restoring forests and wetlands offer cheaper, more effective ways to manage river floods and erosion.
Across sectors, #ClimateAction is increasingly non-negotiable. #cdnpoli
Says , "We have to align the financial sector with climate commitments rather than just looking at how to attempt to insulate the financial sector from climate risks."
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That is why Community Forests is committed to channeling funds directly to communities in #Zanzibar, including to help farmers like Salume adapt to climate changes.
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As reports, these farmers and their communities hold "little to no responsibility for the problem of climate change" – but disproportionately bear its costs.
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For these farmers, #agroforesty practices are not just ecologically beneficial – but "can also serve as a kind of insurance."
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From Malawi to Zanzibar, small-scale farmers are adapting to a changing climate.
They don't have another option.
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
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Healthy forests act as shock absorbers, soaking up excess water and reducing the risk of flooding. That's why we work to protect existing forests and restore degraded ones to keep our communities safe.
#forestprotection #naturebasedsolutions #forestsNB
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The data storytelling & art in this news piece is great.
Sugar maple trees and forests are complex, and like all living things they are being drastically impacted by the build up of heat around our planet.
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"In turning a blind eye to the tens of millions of tons of annual emissions from industrial logging, Canada is willfully ignoring what the atmosphere does not..."
#cdnpoli #ClimateActionNow
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The NWAI's Forest Stewardship Program provides FREE SITE VISITS and gives ecologically-focused forest management assistance to forest owners within the Watershed.
Email forest@nashwaakwatershed.ca for details. #MyNashwaak #habitatrestoration #eauNBwater #forestmanagement
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Vanilla veins that have been purchased by Community Forests Pemba (CFP) through the Viungo project to help 60 farmers establish and strengthen their farms. The Viungo Project supported with European Union (EU)
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Did you know that forests can be good for your mental health? Spending time in the forest has been shown to increase our feelings of happiness, reduce anxiety, and help us better cope with stress!
So this Earth Month, make sure to schedule yourself plenty of #ForestTime!
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Are you up for the #5kmChallenge?
Step 1 – Sign up to receive your 5KM Fundraising Guide
Step 2 – Ask friends and family to support your Challenge by making a donation of any amount.
Step 3 – Run, walk, or cycle on Saturday, April 22nd!
forestsinternational.org/5km-challenge
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In #Zanzibar, the Community Forest Pemba team has recently finished another Solar Dryer for use by the communities of Kizimbani!
This will be used by farmers to process their spice crops, allowing them to access markets for ethical and organically-produced spices 🌱
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Springtime means the array of wildflowers, ferns, moss, and lichen start to emerge in the forests. One of the greatest gifts of this season is flowering spring ephemeral plants.
Do you have any favourites?
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On Saturday, April 22nd, join us in celebrating and supporting the forests in the annual #5KMChallenge! Join a global movement of people celebrating and bringing awareness to our shared ecosystems, environments, and climate.
Learn more: forestsinternational.org/5km-challenge
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#WorkshopAlert! Are you a forest caretaker or landowner interested in learning how to manage the lands to benefit wildlife and species at risk?
is hosting a spring workshop to help!
Register for this in-person workshop today: eventbrite.ca/e/managing-for
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#Cloves are the dried flower buds from the clove tree (Syzygium aromaticum), or mikarafuu mti in Swahili!
Zanzibari cloves are particularly famous because of their high percentage of essential oils compared to cloves from other parts of the world!
#spicefacts #Zanzibar
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Starting soon, there's still space to join our #2BT Restoration Planting webinar!
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Are you part of an ENGO or community group that has received or is applying to the Government of Canada's #2BT Program? Interested in learning how this funding can be used for restoration planting?
Join us for tomorrow's webinar!
us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_
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Our own research on the flood mitigation values of a standing forest agrees:
"Maintaining and restoring natural infrastructure to support healthy functioning saves money, time and lives."
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Increasing research is arguing what Indigenous and local communities have long known:
"...developers have long conflated pricelessness with worthlessness, allowing them to profit without paying for the consequences of destroying the environment."
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The wider ecosystem benefits of natural landscapes like forests have long been ignored.
As says, "We didn't need a market for resources that industrialists saw as abundant and endlessly renewable. This exploitative assumption turned out to be very wrong."
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It's simply not acceptable.
To the hundreds of youth who worked hard to help us build the wikuom at their school, I am so sad for you to have to experience this. Whether or was vandalism or a hate crime, this affects you all.
We will figure a way out to help you move forward ❤️
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Queens District RCMP investigating vandalism to a wigwam #Liverpool rcmp-grc.ca/124535
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Are you part of an ENGO or community group that has received or is applying to the Government of Canada's #2BT Program? Interested in learning how this funding can be used for restoration planting?
Join us for tomorrow's webinar!
us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_
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"Real hope is the fact that if we do something, we are convinced that it can make a difference. We're convinced that there is a better future possible if we do everything we can to get there."
Are you hopeful for #ClimateJustice? We are.
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Read the full letter urging Canada and the US to jointly commit to transparently reporting on #emissions from industrial logging.
If we act, Canada's forests have the potential to be one of our greatest climate solutions. #cdnpoli #forests #forestcarbon
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It's #IntlForestDay and it's a perfect time to celebrate mangrove forests!
Did you know that #mangroves are one of the most effective carbon sinks on the planet? In Zanzibar, Community Forests Pemba is working to restore these special forests, benefitting our global community.
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