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Enhanced conservation management of tiger reserves in India has helped avoid forest loss, preventing one million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions. This represents $93 million in ecosystem services from the avoided social cost of emissions.  The researchers suggest that biodiversity conservation programmes could generate revenue from carbon credits that could be traded in voluntary carbon markets. Mongabay-India writer Neha Jain reports

The research by a team from the National University of Singapore involved 45 reserves.  Read more at straitstimes.com.

PARIS, May 29 — India’s efforts to protect its endangered tigers have inadvertently helped avoid a large amount of climate change-causing carbon emissions by preventing...

Three-quarters of the world's wild tigers live in India, but the destruction of their natural habitat have seen their numbers plummet.

Tigers are an "umbrella species", which means that by protecting them we also protect the forests they live in, which are home to an incredible diversity of wildlife