Foundation president, Harvey Fineberg, and chairman emeritus and co-founder, Gordon Moore, discuss the Statement of Founders’ Intent with staff.
New findings from research supported in part through the Moore Foundation appear in the journal Nature Communications today, showing that just one percent of all tree species in the Amazon make up half of the entire rainforest and therefore store 50 percent of the region’s carbon. Moore Foundation grants (#1656 and #3000) helped support the Amazon Forest Inventory Network (RAINFOR) and the Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystems Research Group (ABERG) in conducting long-term data collection and research at hundreds of intensive plots across the Amazon-Andes region.
Read a sampling of related coverage here:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/just-1-percent-amazon%E2%80%99s-trees-hold-half-its-carbon
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32497537
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-amazon-basin-is-home-to-about-16000-tree-species/
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University of Leeds
$3,893,432
48 months
Quantifying the Role of Tropical Forests in the Global Carbon Balance and Future Climate Change
Nov 2007
$681,055
18 months
Assessing the impacts of the 2010-2011 drought on Amazon forests.
Jun 2011
