Bamboo forests are a natural defense against calamity, as well as a
carbon sink.
'Part of the
carbon sink area focus will be to bring many other native species that can be found so eventually a large arboretum can be developed both for observation of specimen trees as well as potential seed sources in the future,' said William Granert, executive director of SWCF.
Plastic litter could impact the oceanic
carbon sinkSummary: TEHRAN (FNA)- More than half of the
carbon sink in the world's forests is in areas where the trees are relatively young -- under 140 years old -- rather than in tropical rainforests, research shows.
Forests have a critical role to mitigate climate change, he said, adding that jungles work as a
carbon sink. Deforestation weakens this foremost
carbon sink function, he said, and pointed out that it is estimated that 15 to 20 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions are the result of deforestation.
Forests are nature's own
carbon sink and if protected and managed well, can increase the resilience of rural landscapes.
Lee Cheng-hsien , deputy director of Hulien Forest District Office, said the forest park has an area of 1,250 hectares, which is the equivalent of 48 times of the Daan Forest Park, and is therefore a huge
carbon sink.
The Cuvette Centrale peatlands in the central Congo basin is believed to be the world's largest peatland system, and the region's most important
carbon sink.
Carbon sinks are forests, oceans, or other natural locations that have the ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere.
Study author Dr Trevor Keenan, from the US Department of Energy's Berkeley National Laboratory, said: "This highlights the need to identify and protect ecosystems where the
carbon sink is growing rapidly."
During the past 50 years, the land-based
carbon sink's "interannual variability" has grown by 50%100%.
"We've found a
carbon sink in the most unlikely place," says Yan Li, an ecologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Urumqi.