tirto.id - Tes kepribadian Forest mt dari Seekrtech jadi viral di media sosial, terutama Instagram dan Twitter. Forest memprediksi kepribadian seseorang berdasarkan jenis-jenis bunga dan tanaman. Berdasarkan pengamatan Tirto , situs web ini memiliki tampilan yang cukup menarik dan menggunakan background music saat dibuka. Ada beberapa hasil tes kepribadian yang ditampilkan Forest mt , misalnya Bamboo. Dalam pengertiannya, Bamboo berarti " Steadfast and righteous with unwavering commitment ". Dalam penjelasannya, Bamboo digambarkan sebagai orang yang down to earth dan sangat detail. Selain itu, ia juga orang yang cepat mengambil keputusan, efisien dalam bekerja dan sangat terencana. Orang-orang dengan kepribadian Bamboo fokus dan bertanggung jawab pada tindakan yang ia lakukan. Dalam hasil tersebut juga diprediksi "Perfect Study Buddy" untuk Bamboo, yaitu Apple Tree dan "Focus Spot" untuk Bamboo adalah " A stricly supervised study room ". Hasil ini tentu berbeda-beda untuk setiap orang, tergantung pada jawaban yang disubmit dalam setiap pertanyaan dari Forest. Tes kepribadian ini dengan cepat viral di media sosial Twitter dan Instagram. Lalu, mengapa orang menyukai tes kepribadian? Forest menjadi salah satu tes kepribadian yang bukan berasal dari lembaga tertentu dan bukan untuk masuk perusahaan atau universitas. Forest adalah salah satu tes kepribadian gratis yang beredar di internet. Menyenangkan memang menjawab berbagai pertanyaan secara jujur yang hasil akhirnya akan menunjukkan orang seperti apa kita. Akan tetapi sebetulnya apa alasan di balik banyaknya orang yang menyukai tes kepribadian? Dilansir dari Psychology Today , setidaknya ada tiga alasan mengapa orang menyukai tes kepribadian. Alasan yang pertama karena ingin mengetahui banyak hal tentang diri sendiri. Seorang psikolog bernama Simine Vazire mengatakan tes kepribadian disukai karena mengungkapkan informasi yang sebelumnya tidak diketahui tentang diri sendiri. Hal ini tentu bisa menjadi sisi positif dari tes kepribadian, yang mana berarti menunjukkan sebuah tindakan ingin mengenal diri lebih baik. Dalam tes kepribadian biasanya juga menunjukkan skor-skor tertentu untuk tingkat intelektualitas maupun kreativitas diri. Tentu hal ini menjadi hal yang menarik untuk diketahui. Namun, psikolog lebih menyarankan bertanya kepada keluarga atau sahabat untuk mengetahui diri sendiri ketimbang mengikuti tes MBTI atau Ennegram. Alasan kedua, karena manusia ingin menjadi bagian dari kelompok tertentu. Manusia cenderung memiliki keinginan untuk dipahami dan hal itu adalah normal. Beberapa orang yang melakukan tes kepribadian merasa dia berbeda dengan orang lainnya. Tes kepribadian memungkinkan para penggunanya untuk mengetahui, "Ada orang lain di luar sana yang seperti saya". Alasan ketiga, karena manusia ingin memahami orang lain. Dengan mengetahui hasil tes kepribadian seseorang makan akan memudahkan untuk memahami sikap orang tersebut. Tentu hal ini akan membantu bagaimana memperlakukan orang tersebut dan menciptakan sebuah interaksi sosial yang lancar.
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VICTORIA — A forest industry trade mission to Asia faces fewer political tensions this year than last December after the arrest of a top Chinese executive, but concerns about supply issues are now on the table, says British Columbia’s forests minister.
Doug Donaldson, in a teleconference from Tokyo, said Wednesday he and 35 senior executives from B.C. forest companies and associations are on a five-day trade mission to Asia that concludes Friday.
The arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver last year prompted the minister to postpone his planned participation in a forestry trade mission to China. Donaldson said current talks in the country have focused on business.
“Over the past year, time has cooled tensions between the countries on this diplomatic dispute, and so in Shanghai and with our customers and potential clients, the atmosphere was very good,” he said.
But initial meetings in China and now in Japan have also involved calming concerns about reduced supplies of B.C. timber to help in the construction of major residential developments and vacation-resort projects in the countries, he said.
“They are astute business people,” said Donaldson. “They read the headlines and they know about the decline of beetle wood and the decline due to wildfires in volume that’s available.”
A decade-long pine beetle epidemic and two recent record-breaking wildfire seasons destroyed millions of hectares of B.C. forests.
Donaldson said in talks with Japanese investors he emphasized the quality and amount of B.C. timber available despite these natural disasters.
He said Japan imports on average about 2.3 million cubic metres of B.C. softwood every year and the current projection for the province’s annual allowable cut is about 55 million cubic metres, which means there is ample supply for Japanese needs.
But Donaldson is visiting Asia at a time when the province’s forest industry is struggling as mills are closing and hundreds of people are facing layoffs or plant closures.
The Opposition B.C. Liberals recently released a document detailing ongoing industry struggles, listing almost 60 examples where companies have implemented cost-cutting measures that range from harvest reductions to permanent mill closures.
The announcement of the permanent closure of the Tolko lumber mill in Kelowna last week saw the Liberals repeat their call for Premier John Horgan to fire Donaldson.
“One hundred and twenty-five more forestry workers will now be out of jobs in January after over two years of inaction from John Horgan and his forestry minister in the middle of a crisis,” said forestry critic John Rustad in a statement. “How bad does this crisis have to get under the NDP before John Horgan finally fires this inept minister?”
The Forests Ministry said China and Japan are B.C.’s largest markets outside of North America. China represents 28 per cent of the province’s total forest product exports, while Japan is its third-largest export market for lumber products.
The ministry said all forest products exported to China from B.C. in 2018 totalled $4.14 billion, while the amount exported to Japan last year totalled $1.62 billion.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 13, 2019.
A helping hand goes a long way, especially for fragmented and disturbed forests. According to a recent study published in Ecosphere, removing weeds and planting native trees in such patches can help forests recover in numerous ways (including increasing their carbon storage or sequestration levels) than when compared to just protecting them. However, there’s a critical caveat: though such restoration is important, it is no substitute for undisturbed, naturally intact forests, as the study found.
Undisturbed forests are few in the tropics due to increasing deforestation and human-caused degradation of forest tracts. Impacts include species declines (of not only large mammals and birds, but insects and even soil bacteria) as well as the release of ancient, stored carbon. When forests are logged, carbon stored in wood and other biomass above the ground over millions of years is lost to the atmosphere.
This aggravates ongoing climate change. Though forest protection, a “passive” strategy, wherein existing forest patches are afforded protection from deforestation and other disturbances, helps, numerous countries are now taking additional steps to mitigate deforestation-linked climate change. This includes active restoration, the process of removing weeds and planting native, often nursery-raised tree species to help forests recover faster.
For instance, the Bonn Challenge initiated in 2011 – a global treaty endorsed by more than 100 governments (including India), NGOs and private enterprises – aims to restore 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land by 2020. India has committed to restoring 21 million hectares by 2030 as per this challenge. This is expected to help realise several international commitments including the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
One of the targets delineates that “ecosystem resilience and the contribution of biodiversity to carbon stocks” is enhanced by 2020, through “conservation and restoration, including restoration of at least 15% of degraded ecosystems…”. In a recent assessment of the feasibility of restoration in tropical rainforests worldwide, India also emerged as one of the five countries (joining the ranks of Brazil, Indonesia, Madagascar and Colombia) with the largest restoration hotspots, the prioritisation of which are crucial for successful forest recovery.
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Yet, how effective is active restoration? And how do ongoing active restoration efforts compare to just providing a forest protection and letting it recover by itself?
To answer these questions, a team of scientists including Anand M. Osuri of The Earth Institute, Columbia University and the Nature Conservation Foundation‘s (NCF) Divya Mudappa and T.R. Shankar Raman turned to Tamil Nadu’s Valparai plateau. Owing to deforestation, the plateau’s once contiguous rainforest is now a mix of protected forests and private plantations, predominantly coffee and tea. These plantations are also home to about 45 remnant rainforest patches, ranging from 1 to 1,300 hectares in area.
While the plantation companies protect some of these patches from deforestation and disturbance (they’re being “passively” restored), Mudappa and Raman have been actively restoring some sites within these degraded patches with help from the plantation companies and the Tamil Nadu Forest Department by removing weeds and planting nursery-raised tree saplings. Osuri and his colleagues chose 25 pairs of such fragments (adjacent to each other and comparable in area, topography and other factors) that were actively and passively restored for between seven to 15 years, to study several aspects of forest quality.
In small plots within each fragment, they quantified 11 indicators of forest structure, including the expanses of tree canopies, species diversity and numbers of adult trees and saplings, and above-ground carbon levels. They also studied the same metrics in nearby contiguous, protected forests and used these as a benchmark to compare the actively- and passively-restored forest patches.
Active over passive?
The team recorded a total of 150 tree species (3,146 individual trees) from all their study plots. Benchmark forests alone contained 1,116 individual trees belonging to 97 species. Actively restored sites, however, were home to 99 tree species, while passively-restored ones housed only 79. In terms of saplings regenerating naturally on the forest floor, benchmark forests recorded the highest numbers and species (1,467 individuals of 81 species), followed by actively restored sites (1,081 individuals of 62 species). Passively restored sites showed the least numbers and species of regenerating saplings: 536 individuals of just 37 species.
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Active restoration helped these degraded forest patches recover not just in tree numbers (69%) and species (49%) but also canopy cover (82%). Tree species that are unlikely to colonise isolated and degraded patches on their own without the help of seed dispersers – such as the wild nutmeg Myristica dactyloides and dhoopa tree Canarium strictum – increased in numbers in these actively restored patches. The numbers of naturally regenerating saplings also recovered by 51%. Even above-ground carbon storage levels (obtained from measurements of tree height and diameter, and information on their wood densities) recovered in these sites by 47%.
The team also chose the actively- and passively-restored pairs of forest sites at differing distances from the nearest benchmark forest, to see how the effects of restoration varied with increasing isolation from these protected areas. Interestingly, they found that more isolated, actively restored sites recovered better in terms of several metrics including canopy cover and tree numbers than passively restored sites did. Basically, the more isolated forest patches were, the more they benefited from active restoration for they were unlikely to recover on their own.
One of the more well-recognised factors that could explain this trend is the lack of seed dispersal, says Osuri, the lead author of the study and currently with the NCF. “Studies show that large fruit-eating animals, which act as seed dispersers for many rainforest tree species, are less likely to visit and disperse seeds into the more isolated areas,” he says.
This finding – that active interventions of clearing weeds and planting trees are particularly useful in fragmented landscapes where there are various factors preventing these sites from bouncing back naturally – is a crucial take-home of the study, apart from how it shows that active restoration can help a forest recover and increase its carbon storage potential, adds Osuri.
Implications for policy
According to co-author Mudappa, these findings also carry an important message for restoration policy in India and elsewhere.
“Government policies allow afforestation or restoration to be used as a method of compensating for the destruction of mature natural forests,” she said in a press release. “However, it is wrong to assume that planted forests – even ones planted with diverse native species – can truly replace the unique biological wealth, climate regulating potential, and other ecological values of existing natural forests.”
In their study, for instance, benchmark forests trumped active and passively-restored sites in most metrics including higher sapling regeneration on the forest floor.
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“This study is timely as India and many other countries strive to meet large restoration pledges during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030),” wrote independent scientist and restoration ecologist J. Leighton Reid, Assistant Professor at the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, United States, in an email to Mongabay-India. “We need more field studies like this one to be able to match damaged ecosystems to the best possible restoration strategies.
This case study clearly demonstrates that conserving intact habitat should be the number one priority, he added.
“Ecological restoration can help replenish carbon stocks and conserve some species, but we never get back everything that we lose when an ecosystem is destroyed. This paper shows that is as true in the Western Ghats as it is anywhere else.”
A set of wide concrete stairs leads up to Casa en el Bosque (translated to “house in the forest”). True to its name, the modern house is nestled into a forest in El Barrel, Mexico, where its layout has been arranged around 17 trees that originally inhabited the land.
Instead of a building a monolithic structure, Mexican studio WEYES split the home into four separate volumes that move up the sloped plot of land and are connected by a series of external stairs, corridors, and walkways. Each volume appears to float on a concrete slab and is set amongst the trees like its own discrete treehouse.
The four sections of the house—the “social pavilion,” “private resting pavilion,” “pavilion for visitors,” and a garage and storage area—together form blocks of glass, brick, and concrete. WEYES aimed to design the spaces to minimize energy consumption. Skylights and windows provide lots of natural light; the trees provide enough shade on hot days, and the double brick walls retain the heat during the winter.
The interior of the house is a direct reflection of what’s happening outside—brick walls sit next to timber built-in storage, while concrete floors abut a span of floor-to-ceiling windows that seem to bring the outside indoors.
Federal and state officials have reached an agreement they say will strengthen their relationship as they work to improve forest conditions in New Mexico.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and U.S. Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen will be signing the so-called shared stewardship agreement during a gathering Thursday in Santa Fe.
The agreement has been a work in progress over years and will address issues such as wildfires, drought and invasive species.
Officials say the challenges faced by land managers transcend boundaries and affect people beyond the jurisdiction of any single organization, so they have to find new ways of working together and doing business at a greater pace and scale.
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Under the agreement, the state and national forests plan to evaluate opportunities, threats and alternatives for risk management.
A new partnership aims to support sustainable forests and carbon market development in targeted areas in Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Nature Conservancy are working together to create the Healthy Forest Reserve Program, or HFRP.
This program will offer financial assistance in the form of easement payments for specific conservation actions on private forest and tribal lands.
According to a release, an acre of eastern hardwoods can sequester 85 tons of CO2 equivalent on average.
Landowners develop a carbon forest project with TNC and get assistance with carbon credit development and marketing as well as some potential additional income from the sale of credits.
The release says the restored and protected forests also promote biodiversity among plants and animals, help threatened and endangered species.
The program offers a 30-year term and permanent easement options for private landowners or a 30-year contract for tribal lands.
The USDA will pay 75 percent of the value of the land enrolled in 30-year easements plus 75 percent of the average cost of the approved conservation practices.
Landowners who select the permanent easement option can get 100 percent of the easement value of the enrolled property.
“Improving forest management on a regional scale is a win for landowners and the environment,” said Virginia State Conservationist Jack Bricker. “Integrating an emerging voluntary forest carbon market with HFRP supports local economies and fits seamlessly into our new five-year initiative to improve forest health in Appalachia.”
Virginia is currently offering the program through a Regional Conservation Partnership Program project with TNC in several counties in the southwestern part of the Commonwealth. The counties covered include Bland, Buchanan, Dickenson, Giles, Grayson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, Wise and Wythe.
Eligible landowners need to submit an application by Dec. 30 in order to be considered for fiscal year 2020 funding. All applicants must provide proof of ownership, and operators or tenants need to provide written concurrence from the landowner of tenancy for the HFRP restoration agreement period.
To apply or get more information, call Steve Lineman or Greg Meade with the Nature Conservancy at (276) 676-2209, NRCS Easement Program Manager Diane Dunaway at (804) 287-1634 or the NRCS field offices that serve the eligible counties.
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Under the scheme, announced on Monday by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 26 nations will soon be able to provide improved data on forest and land use – a key pledge of all State signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement.
Accurate monitoring of forest and land use is essential if countries are to track progress towards the sustainability goals (SDGs) as they adopt climate change-mitigation and adaptation measures, FAO explained.
Forests provide security, income
“Forests are more than trees and fundamental for food security and improved livelihoods”, FAO said in a statement.
“They contribute to resilience of communities by regulating water flows, providing food, wood energy, shelter, fodder and fibre, generate income and employment as well as harbour biodiversity. Furthermore, forests support sustainable agriculture and human wellbeing by stabilizing soils and climate.”
#GoodNews! @FAO & @theGEF team up in a new $7.1 million project to make forest data more transparent, accessible and available.
The initiative will help developing countries meet the #ParisAgreement's enhanced transparency requirements.
👉 https://t.co/GeWcYRjygj #ClimateAction pic.twitter.com/dcXqc5JKbV — FAO Newsroom (@FAOnews) November 11, 2019
The $7.1 million initiative is being implemented by FAO and national officers, who already support 70 countries with forest-monitoring to ensure more sustainable land management.
The data gathered on the status of the world’s forest resources is available via FAO’s Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2020) reporting platform.
Welcoming the launch of the project, Hiroto Mitsugi, from the agency’s Forestry Department, explained that many developing countries are unable to generate reliable forest data to highlight their “climate achievements”.
“This project will provide an essential platform for more transparent forest-related data, helping countries to compile, analyse and disseminate better data in line with the Paris Agreement's requirements," he said.
In concrete terms, the scheme will support an e-learning course on transparency in the forest sector for national forestry staff.
The course will also be made available more widely, to universities, the private sector and intergovernmental organizations, FAO said.
Reached on 12 December 2015, the Paris Agreement calls on countries to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low-carbon future.
To date, 187 Parties have ratified the Agreement, out of 197 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The United States formally announced its withdrawal just last week.
The Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping global temperature rise this century to well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Countries are also expected to pursue efforts to limit the planet’s temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius and invest in ways to strengthen their ability to deal with the impacts of climate change.
All Parties to the Agreement are also required to implement “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs) and to strengthen these efforts in the years ahead.
This includes requirements that all Parties report regularly on their emissions and on their implementation efforts and participate in a global stock take every five years to assess progress.
Forestry officials in Tennessee say a strike team is being created to perform prescribed burning on public and private forest land in the Cumberland Plateau.
Tennessee Division of Forestry officials said Tuesday that a $200,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will be used to expand forest fire use and management in Tennessee.
Officials say the forest strike team will perform prescribed burns on more than 1,200 acres (485 hectares) to help reduce damage from wildfires caused by excessive brush, shrubs and trees.
Officials say prescribed fires also encourage native vegetation to grow and maintain plant and animal species whose habitats depend on periodic fire.
Tennessee's forests cover 14 million acres (5.6 million hectares). That's more than half of the state's total acreage.
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A pack of feral hogs -- perhaps 30 to 50 of them -- reportedly sniffed out and destroyed a stash of cocaine worth $22,000 that drug dealers had hidden in an Italian forest.
The wild boar dug up and broke into the sealed package, scattering its contents across a Tuscan forest near Montepulciano.
Police discovered the work of the helpful swine after they wiretapped suspected drug traffickers -- one Italian and three Albanians-- and heard them complaining about the damage to their woodland stash. The four suspects were arrested, after which two were taken to jail and two more were placed under house arrest, Il Tirreno reported.
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There was no word on what became of the hogs who'd dug up the narcotics.
The drugs came from Perugia and were to be peddled throughout Tuscany. Each month the four suspects managed to peddle two kilograms of cocaine, charging $90-120 per gram.
Police began to suspect the group after the drug-related murder of a 21-year-old Albanian in May of last year. A group of Albanians with links to the murder victim who sold drugs became suspicious to police.
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The wild boar population in Italy has seen a major spike, and now stands at about 2 million -- double the 2015 population. Last week hundreds of Italian farmers descended on Rome to protest, arguing that the government has not taken proper measures to control the population, according to The Guardian. Farmers said the animals are destroying their crops and killing their livestock.
Wild boar are also responsible for around 10,000 road accidents per year.
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Female wild boar can give birth to six to 14 piglets at a time. The abandonment of farmland in recent years has led to increased forest covering, a prime habitat for the creatures. They have no natural predators other than wolves.
