OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that, in partnership with The Australian National University (ANU) of Canberra, Australia, which is represented by Professor Ian Young, The Vice-Chancellor of ANU, it will propose new strategies to manage native forests to maximize carbon storage and the benefits of other ecosystem services. The proposals will be made at World Parks Congress 2014.

Fujitsu Laboratories has applied its Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) technology, used to assess its Information and Communication Technology (ICT) products and services, to analyse the post-wildfire state of Australia's native forests, where some of the world's tallest trees flourish. For its part, ANU has used long-term field data to evaluate ecosystem flora and fauna in the Central Highlands in Victoria, Australia. By analyzing ecosystem data obtained in field studies the researchers were able to quantitatively assess changes in the forest's carbon stock.

As a result of these studies, the new research has found innovative new methods of sustainably managing native forests from the perspective of carbon storage that keeps volumes of atmospheric CO2 in check and that work for protection of endangered species.

Details on the proposal will be jointly announced with ANU at the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) World Parks Congress 2014, the world's largest conference on nature preserves, which will be held starting Wednesday, November 12, 2014, in Sydney, Australia.