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"Saving Forests from the Group Up"
May 7, 2009
By Marsha Johnston

Summary: In 2000 a Forest Health Monitoring project began. Plots were surveyed on foot rather than photographs in Kenya.This was done so harm to wildlife could be directly monitored.

"When the farmer extends his field into the forest you can see it from the air, but you can’t see if they are cutting trees out of the forest,” he says. “Not many projects look at what’s going on inside the forest, whether human impact is happening that you can’t measure from the air.” Humans impact wildlife and forests habitats way to often because they are oblivious to the fact that its occurring.
Hertel’s painstaking legwork surveying overall forest health in eastern Africa has been a critical component of proving to local communities how protecting their forest also sustains their lives. This is good because eventually the loss of habitat leads to a loss of animals which leads to losses of species and losses of food ect.