Sentences with phrase «forests action area»

This report presents the results of the formal Forests action area plenary at the Secretary - General's Climate Summit, 23 September 2014.

Not exact matches

Unless urgent action is taken to stem deforestation in key areas that are heading towards or have just dipped below the forest cover «threshold» — which, according to the research team's models, amounts to a third of the Amazon — these areas will suffer the loss of between 31 - 44 % of species by just 2030.

The work also showed that although the poorest households are reliant on forests for their daily needs, they also look elsewhere — for example, traveling to urban areas — when drastic action is needed to feed themselves or urgently acquire income.

The report identified over 40 key actions needed to boost gibbon numbers and ensure their long - term survival, including enhancing monitoring systems to keep track of remaining individuals, creating canopy bridges between forest fragments to expand their habitat range, and limiting disturbance by people in forested areas.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

Additionally FIP resources will be used to support actions at all levels (national, provincial, district) both in and outside of designated state forest areas.

There are no rushing sprints to the forest, no large area to run around, so the film is self - contained and capable of maintaining its suspense and action without waning.

Obviously, there is a direct link here to Geography with students investigating geographical features of places, this time focusing in on forests and treed areas with students then proposing actions they could take to care for resources or a place important to them.

Take the zoo bus tour to help you decide which areas you want to spend more time in — be sure to visit the Lost Forest to watch the gorillas in action and stop at the Giant Panda Research Station, which is now home to three Giant Pandas including Xiao Liwu born in 2012.

Afterwards on your 3rd day, you'll be biking around the area of the Arenal Volcano National Park and take abandoned roads to delve into deeper and richer secondary forests and topping it off with some river crossing action.

The organizations then contracted forestry experts from Bogota, Medellin, and the US state of California who compared the forest with other unguarded forested areas nearby and concluded that roughly 13,000 hectares would be lost to cattle ranching, agriculture, and selective logging if defensive actions weren't taken immediately.

A Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) report suggested a number of mitigation actions to improve the situation, which include stopping encroachment in the remaining forest covers, keeping elephant corridors intact, creating alternative livelihoods for people in the affected area, better enforcement of laws and better litigation, and providing technical support to and creating awareness among locals.

Source: Xinhua, «Yunnan Public Security Border Defense Brigade takes actions to ensure the Yunnan - Burma timber and mineral trading cooperation»; 27 March 2006 [2] Source: Global Witness field investigation; Yunnan Province, China; May 2006 [3] Source: Global Witness, «A Choice for China: Ending the destruction of Burma's northern frontier forests»; October 2005, available in English, Chinese and Burmese from http://www.globalwitness.org/reports/index.php?section=burma [4] Source: Global Witness estimates based on statistical information from the National Bureau of Statistics of China, and China Customs made available by The World Trade Atlas; February 2006 [5] Border checkpoints in all but one area along the China - Burma border visited by Global Witness investigators had been closed.

Thanks to more than 100 years of conservation action, this is among the top three most intact contiguous areas of mixed temperate forest left on Earth.

INPE's director, Gilberto Camara, credited a series of «coordinated actions» taken on behalf of the Brazilian government to combat deforestation, as well as an increase in «corporate responsibility» to not buy meat or soy produced on cleared areas of forest.

This all went to my not well received suggestion that we take constructive action to create standing forests in the vast areas of under - used land in the USA, preferably on a whole North American continental basis.