Australian Forests Store Most Carbon

Australian Forests Store Most Carbon

Posted on June 16th, 2009 Our Changing Climate 2 comments

A new discovery by Scientists at the Australian National University. They Claim that Ancient Australian forests are key to fighting climate change, as they contain the world’s most dense carbon store.

It had previously been believed that it was the Amazon Rain forest. Towering Mountain Ash forests covering Victoria state’s cool highlands hold four times more carbon, or around 1,900 metric tons of carbon per hectare than tropical forests, claim scientists.

“The trees in these forests can grow to a very old age, at least 350 years, and they can grow very large, very tall, and they grow very dense, heavy wood”

The findings overturn conventional thinking about the carbon density of different forest types that until now held that tropical rain forests were the most carbon-dense.
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2 responses to “Australian Forests Store Most Carbon”
1. Energy Map June 20th, 2009 at 13:10
  
  A good conference is to take place in from Dec 12-13, 2009 at Copenhagen to discuss climate changing issues and how to fight it effectively. Hope these trees are also mentioned about there by scientists.
2. Peter R. Gunn July 25th, 2009 at 19:16
  
  Dear Sirs,
  What is needed is a world wide tree planting
  program at the basic ground level. Who will
  start it??
  Peter R. Gunn
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