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Presentation from Dominick A. DellaSala, chief scientist and president of the Geos Institute in Ashland, Oregon, and president of the North American section of the Society for Conservation Biology.
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THE FORGOTTEN RAINFORESTS:
TEMPERATE AND BOREAL RAINFORESTS OF THE WORLD
DOMINICK A. DELLASALA, PH.D.
IslandPress.org/dellasala J. Schoen
www.geosinstitute.org
National Geographic
TROPICAL RAINFORESTS OF THE WORLD
National Geographic
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Equator
ANNUAL PRECIP AVERAGE ANNUAL TEMP8 feet
WET SUMMERS
NCAR
tropical
borealtemperate
INTRODUCING TEMPERATE AND BOREAL RAINFORESTS
HOW MUCH AND WHERE?
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3535
17 16
11 118
30.5
TEMPERATE AND BOREAL RAINFOREST PLANETARY TOUR
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RAINFORESTS OF HOME:
ALASKA TO REDWOODS
J. Schoen
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TONGASS OLD GROWTH CHAMPIONS
John Schoen
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818
2,258
4,630
8,181
10,260
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2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
pre1960 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Kilo
met
ers
Time Step
Roads Built in the Tongass National Forest Region
Another 400,000 acres could be logged this century
Roadless areas are vital
CANADA’S GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST
Tim Greyhavens
~ Globally unique relatively intact system¼ of word’s temperate rainforests
Ian McAllister
SALMON DRIVEN RAINFOREST
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Tim Greyhavens
GREENPEACE
$120 million campaign boosted protection levels up to ~35% Scientists recommend 40-70% protection
CONSERVATION SUCCESS STORY?
OLYMPICS TO REDWOODS:
“LAND OF THE GIANTS”
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RAINFORESTS HELP STABILIZE GLOBAL CLIMATE
TOP TEN CARBON-STORING NATIONAL FORESTS
The Wilderness Society
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!
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CO2 Equivalent Stored byTop 10 National Forests
CO2 Equivalent in One Year’s U.S. Fossil Fuel Use9.8
billion
metrictons
5.8
billion
metrictons ~2 x total annual emissions
The Wilderness Society
DEFORESTATION = GLOBAL WARMING POLLUTION
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19 1713 13
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INTERIOR WET BELT RAINFORESTS
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LICHENS DRIVE RAINFOREST FOOD WEBS
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Only ~4.5% protected Caribou in peril: 2450 in 1997, 1900 in 2001
LICHEN-CARIBOU RAINFOREST IN TROUBLE
ANCIENT VALDIVIA RAINFOREST
Daniel Gomez
Darwin’s toad
Monito del monte
Magellanic woodpecker
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Rufous-legged owl
VALDIVIA’S WILDLIFE
>60% amphibians/reptiles are found nowhere else
30% of birds endemic
20% of freshwater fish endemic
Old-growth dependent species
40% of rainforests gone! Tierra Chilean - Mitsubishi
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trees > 3,000 years!
Aaron Sanger
RUSSIAN FAR EAST & INLAND SOUTHERN SIBERIA
~450 ~29 Nearly gone
Victor Yudin
P. Krestov
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JAPAN’S RAINFOREST ARE UNIQUE: FEW REMAIN
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AUSTRALASIA – SIZE MATTERS!
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SOUTH AFRICA HAS RAINFOREST PRIMATES
AND “ELEPHANTS”
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FORGOTTEN RAINFOREST THREAT LEVELS*
Redwoods, Europe, Japan & Korea
PNW, Inland BC, Russia, Chile, E. Canada
Great Bear, South Africa, Australia
New Zealand
* Logging, roads, climate change, dams, mining, grazing, exotics, international treaties
THE FORGOTTEN RAINFORESTS VISION
Rainforests are greater than sum-of-their parts
Old forests are pivotal to climate stability globally –climate summit, international year of forests
President Obama – protecting old forests = climate change insurance
We must not let these forests become the forgottenrainforests
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Tim Greyhavens
