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.
1. THE FORGOTTEN RAINFORESTS:
TEMPERATE AND BOREAL RAINFORESTS
OF THE WORLD
DOMINICK A. DELLASALA, PH.D.
IslandPress.org/dellasala J. Schoen
www.geosinstitute.org
2. TROPICAL RAINFORESTS OF THE WORLD
Corbis
Equator
Corbis
National Geographic
National Geographic
12. Roads Built in the Tongass National Forest Region
12,000
10,260
10,000
8,181
8,000
Kilometers
6,000
4,630
4,000
2,258
2,000
818
0
pre1960 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Time Step
Another 400,000 acres could be
logged this century
Roadless areas are vital
13. CANADA’S GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST
Tim Greyhavens
~ Globally unique relatively intact system
¼ of word’s temperate rainforests
21. CO2 Equivalent Stored by
Top 10 National Forests
CO2 Equivalent in One Year’s
9.8 U.S. Fossil Fuel Use
billion 5.8
billion
metric
tons metric
tons ~2 x total annual emissions
The Wilderness Society
29. Corbis
VALDIVIA’S WILDLIFE
>60% amphibians/reptiles are found
nowhere else
30% of birds endemic
20% of freshwater fish endemic
Rufous-legged owl
Darwin’s toad
Old-growth dependent species
Monito del monte
Magellanic woodpecker
30. trees > 3,000 years!
Tierra Chilean - Mitsubishi
Corbis
40% of rainforests gone!
Aaron Sanger
31. RUSSIAN FAR EAST & INLAND SOUTHERN SIBERIA
P. Krestov
~450 ~29 Nearly gone
Victor Yudin Corbis
35. 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
36. 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
Corbis change insurance
We must not let these forests become the forgotten
rainforests
Tim Greyhavens
Craig Pettitt
www.geosinstitute.org