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The Role of Forests in Supporting Biodiversity Hotspots
Why some forest regions hold exceptional numbers of species, how the hotspot idea is defined, and why these places are treated as conservation priorities.
How Forests Work
Wildlife and Biodiversity
Habitats, species and the effects of splitting up forests.
Forest Birds and Nesting Habitat
What nesting and feeding birds need from a forest: layered structure, cavities, dense cover, food supplies and enough room, and how management can help or hurt.
Pollinators in Forests
Bees, flies, beetles, moths and other insects pollinate many forest trees and understory flowers. Here is who does the work and what they need to persist.
The Impact of Forest Fragmentation on Forest Ecosystems
How breaking forest into patches creates edges, changes light, wind and moisture, and affects tree health and regeneration, with notes on what limits the damage.
The Impact of Forest Fragmentation on Wildlife Populations
How isolated forest patches cut animals off from one another, why small populations are at greater risk, and how linking habitat can reduce the harm.
The Impact of Logging on Local Wildlife Populations
How felling, roads and the stages of regrowth affect local animals, why effects differ by species and method, and which practices can reduce harm to wildlife.
The Importance of Forest Conservation in Protecting Endangered Species
Why protecting forest habitat is central to saving threatened species, which threats matter most, and the conservation measures commonly used to reduce extinction risk.
Wildlife Corridors Between Forest Patches
How strips and stepping stones of habitat link isolated forest patches, help animals move and exchange genes, and what makes a corridor work or fail.
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