The Southern Montane Forest Project also plays a key role in the Forest Service’s Wildlife Crisis Strategy, which aims to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires across the country.

Utilizing AI technology called SILIC, researchers decipher 6 million bird sounds over two years in Taiwan's montane forests, revealing wildlife activity patterns. The study, published in the open ...

The San Diego-based Southern Montane Forest Project Tuesday unveiled its conservation strategy for Southern California's montane forests, seeking to bolster the health of high-elevation forests.

Tropical montane forests are unique ecosystems that can start at about 150-200 m and reach up to 3,500 m high up on mountains around the world. They are critical centres of biodiversity.

The forests of Mount Moco were once considered the largest montane forests left in Angola, until researchers discovered more forsts in the Namba Mountains. Photo courtesy of Google Earth.

More information: Shih-Hung Wu et al, An acoustic detection dataset of birds (Aves) in montane forests using a deep learning approach, Biodiversity Data Journal (2023). DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e97811 ...

The world’s biggest global climate fund has agreed to invest $39.1 million in Rwanda to help it tackle climate change through the restoration of the nation’s only remaining montane forests.

Montane forests have higher precipitation, so the forest generally becomes taller, wetter, darker and more dense—forming the most extensive zone in the Australian Alps.

Afromontane forests occur at high altitudes across Africa. They’re thought to be relics of former glacial periods in Africa. Studying genetic data from birds living in these moist temperate ...

5. Restoring forests holds the key to a sustainable future. It is estimated that two billion hectares of degraded land worldwide have the potential to be restored.