Sentences with phrase «area of forest with»

To illustrate the magnitude of this addition, the EF calculates the hypothetical area of forest with current world - average carbon sequestration rates that would be needed to fully offset this addition.

Polish scientists worked to protect the least spoiled area of forest with the greatest density of big trees, first as a nature reserve and then as a national park in 1932.

Not exact matches

«The association between Wallace and the local area is quite well documented, with Wallace using guerilla tactics to fight the English from the Ettrick Forest, and the Scottish nobles made Wallace Guardian of Scotland in recognition of his military successes.

Many of us recall James Watt, Secretary of the Interior, speaking before a House Committee, defending his policy of leasing wilderness areas with resultant damage to forests and rivers.

Dinosaur - Era Climate Change Study Suggests Reasons for Turtle Disappearance Mar. 14, 2013 — The dry, barren prairie around Alberta's Drumheller area was once a lush and subtropical forest on the shores of a large inland sea, with loads of wetlands inhabited by dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles and small mammals.

Large spaces in the forest of two and three hundred acres suddenly appeared cleared of the timber, and enclosed by rustic fences, with a few temporary huts run up in the centre, and all the surrounding area divided into patches of Indian corn, coracan, gram, and dry paddi: with plots of esculents and curry stuffs of every variety, onions, chillies, * yams, cassava, and sweet potatoes.

Qingyuan County is a secluded, verdant forest paradise ringed by mountains isolating the entire area not only from any major city but for most of its history from most contact with the outside world.

Increase forest cover with native species in degraded areas, improve the climate resiliency of coffee plants as a result of restoring tree cover, and enhance habitat value in the coffee - growing landscape.

With the aid of government agencies, large firms have been seizing swaths of land in forest areas that were traditionally under ancestral tenure and rapidly converting them to mono - crop rubber and oil palm plantations.

With 90 percent of the world's forests outside of protected areas, the Rainforest Alliance works to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend on them by transforming land - use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.

«Partnering with the Ivorian government, with the support of the World Bank, allows Mondelēz International to have a greater impact and to protect forest areas more effectively than any one actor could on its own,» says Hubert Weber, Executive Vice President and President Mondelēz Europe.

The communities we're working with reside on the Atlantic coast, in the central eastern and Corredor Seco regions, as well as in the remote, northeastern Moskitia area, where about a quarter of Honduras's remaining forests still stands; the commodities they produce include timber, cocoa, coffee, and rambutan (a fruit similar to lychee).

Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.

For the more daring enthusiasts, another 250 - plus miles of trails are waiting to be conquered with your off - highway vehicles in the Chappie - Shasta OHV Area, navigating through BLM land and the Shasta - Trinity National Forest.

Many sheepmen who use the national forest for grazing go in with sacks and sacks of strychnine pellets, some in peanut butter, some in honey, and throw»em around like seed, and they kill everything in the area before they bring their sheep in.»

Spaciously situated on 35 acres fields and forest with direct access to 1300 feet of private Saco River frontage; enjoy your own small campfire at our beach area or your own fire - pit.

With the help of Mass Audubon and in partnership with the U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, Everglades National Park, The Nature Conservancy, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, TIDE trained nine Belizean protected area managers to the advanced level of «burn boss,» giving them the necessary skills in prescribed fires in pine savannahs to prevent dangerous wildfiWith the help of Mass Audubon and in partnership with the U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, Everglades National Park, The Nature Conservancy, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, TIDE trained nine Belizean protected area managers to the advanced level of «burn boss,» giving them the necessary skills in prescribed fires in pine savannahs to prevent dangerous wildfiwith the U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, Everglades National Park, The Nature Conservancy, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, TIDE trained nine Belizean protected area managers to the advanced level of «burn boss,» giving them the necessary skills in prescribed fires in pine savannahs to prevent dangerous wildfires.

«We'll try to get people into nature with one of the paths into the forest area,» Schimmel said, «and we'll get rid of endangered - plant species and try to install native - species plants and trees, including oaks and maples.»

Founded by Mass Audubon in 1988, Programme for Belize is an independent Belizean nonprofit organization with a mission to preserve and protect 262,000 acres of tropical forest in northern Belize called the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA).

Roger Kotecki, vice chairman of the Forest Preserve District's Land Acquisition Committee, said the 4.9 - acre acquisition — along with the other land operated by the Glen Ellyn Park District — means there will be about 20 acres of open space in the area of St. Charles and Geneva Roads.

Troops of Sector 6, 1 Division Nigerian Army Internal Security Force deployed at Soba Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Saturday 28th October 2017 in conjunction with the Nigeria Police and vigilantes, raided and destroyed armed bandits and kidnappers hideout at a forest near Gobarawa - Matari village, Soba Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

While commenting on the arrest of the 84 - persons at Ado - odo area, Adejobi noted that the arrest took place at Imoshe forest of Igbesa council with the help of locals.

Giving further details of the arrest of the terrorists, Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman said, «Fleeing Boko Haram terrorists attempting to escape from military onslaught in Sambisa forest, through Pulka were intercepted and decisively dealt with by troops in blocking position in the area.

The governor also noted that nine local government areas in the state share boundary with the Kamuku forest, where a lot of criminal activities take place.

Large areas of tropical lowland forests have been replaced by oil palm plantations, with major impact on environment and people.

«One of the toughest challenges of lung cancer is what to do for patients when the cancer comes back in an area that's been treated previously with radiation treatment,» said James J. Urbanic, M.D., lead author of the studies and a radiation oncologist at Wake Forest Baptist.

The relatively flat ground and rocky soil of the research sites within the Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest in California's Lassen National Forest, where the Cone Fire burned, may have reduced negative effects associated with ground disturbance, leading researchers to caution applying their findings to areas where soil disturbance from logging is greater.

We worked with the Cambodian government to provide the technical background to allow them to set up the Seima Protection Forest which is in eastern Cambodia — really wonderful area for wildlife about the size of Yosemite — and set up strictly for the protection of carbon, when it was being deforested by people in search of economic well being.

Today, that is down to around a third, although in more western and coastal regions, including the UK and Republic of Ireland, the decline has been far greater with forest coverage in some areas dropping below 10 %.

ZSL, together with collaborators from Queen Mary University of London, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and University of Malaya, continues to work closely with Malaysian palm oil producers in determining if simple modifications to agricultural practices may bring some of the forest species back into areas planted with oil palm and allow them to survive and reproduce in plantations.

Scientists only found this species in forest areas, and if palm oil plantations continue to take over, the peat swamp frog, along with its forest home, could be a thing of the past.

Many hours later, it leads to an area of protected land called Iwokrama, a Rhode Island - size forest in the heart of Guyana, crowded with ancient buttress - trunked trees draped in liana vines.

Interviews with scientists and other experts to assess the relative health of some 60 protected areas of tropical forest in 36 different nations reveal that roughly half are continuing to lose unique species of plants and animals.

It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

With over 80 percent of forests already degraded by human and industrial activities, today's findings underscore the immediate need for international policies to secure remaining intact forests — including establishing new protected areas, securing the land rights of indigenous peoples, regulating industry and hunting, and targeting restoration efforts and public finance.

Small communities, living in large areas of intact forest and with access to healthy stocks of fish, do not appear to be emptying their forests.

But a new study reveals that subsistence hunters from small communities in large areas of intact forest and with access to healthy fish stocks do not appear to be emptying their forests.

Along with reports on these countries, the maps reveal how logged and slated - to - be-logged areas have expanded from 8 % to 76 % of Cameroon's forest since 1959 — even though many of the operations are illegal.

In February and March of this year, Morton met with ministers in Brazil and Peru to discuss the model's 2012 performance and preliminary 2013 fire forecasts, and to examine potential uses of the forecasting information by the area's forest managers.

«If Amazonian societies want to increase the resilience of the forest, they might consider developing fire management plans with a special attention to these seasonally inundated areas,» says Flores.

What's more, Wardle says, a three - dimensional forest of carbon nanotubes would provide much more surface area on which target molecules may interact, compared with the two - dimensional surfaces in conventional microfluidics.

In cooperation with scientists from the Thünen - Institut and the Ecuadorian Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, a team from TUM compared the predicted loss of area of tree species caused by deforestation on the one hand and by predicted forest losses in an extreme climate change scenario on the other.

«Together with a 50 - hectare permanent plot in the Danum valley conservation area and the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, the SAFE project means that we can now study the entire gamut of land use in the region, from pristine forest to fragmented forest and restored forest, to oil palm plantation.

Anthropologist Michael Heckenberger of the University of Florida teamed with the local Kuikuro people in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso to uncover 28 towns, villages and hamlets that may have supported as many as 50,000 people within roughly 7,700 square miles (20,000 square kilometers) of forest — an area slightly smaller than New Jersey.

In the Huangnihe conservation district, a patchwork of old growth forest and reforested former logging areas adjacent to Jilin's two main tiger habitat reserves, Huangnihe forest reserve director Li Cheng is working with scientists and conservation groups to find alternative jobs for locals, for example by training loggers and poachers as organic honey farmers.

«Borneo is a network of timber plantations, agro-forestry areas and mines, with patches of natural forest,» said Loken.

Bornean orangutans living in forests impacted by human commerce seek areas of denser canopy enclosure, taller trees, and sections with trees of uniform height, according to new research from Carnegie's Andrew Davies and Greg Asner published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Forest Service scientists expect to see continued elevated levels of tree mortality during 2017 in dense forest stands, stands impacted by root diseases or other stress agents and in areas with higher levels of bark beetle actForest Service scientists expect to see continued elevated levels of tree mortality during 2017 in dense forest stands, stands impacted by root diseases or other stress agents and in areas with higher levels of bark beetle actforest stands, stands impacted by root diseases or other stress agents and in areas with higher levels of bark beetle activity.

With the data they simulated 130 years of growth following the Yellowstone Fires using a computer model calibrated to the study area and used by forest and land managers around the U.S., called the Forest Vegetation Simuforest and land managers around the U.S., called the Forest Vegetation SimuForest Vegetation Simulator.

The researchers produced forest microclimate maps for an area of 16,000 km2 in central Sweden (covering parts of Värmland, Örebro län, Västmanland and Dalarna) with the help of small temperature data loggers, not larger than a finger nail.