S1E71: Asean’s forests with benefits: Green Pulse Ep 71

The Straits Times Podcasts · Feb 20, 2022 · 10m

Synopsis: The Straits Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate change.

Conserving a forest instead of cutting it down for other uses is becoming increasingly attractive to land developers, as more companies and countries eye such projects as sources of carbon credits to offset their emissions.

But a new study by researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found that protecting forests in South-east Asia can yield many more benefits, other than just the profits from the sale of carbon credits. Communities around a healthy…