Sentences with phrase «areas of forest growing»

There are ways to grow oil palms in sustainable ways, but clearing large areas of forest growing on peat soils, further endangering wildlife (the orangutan being the most prominent example), and destroying biodiversity in general is not the way to do it.

Not exact matches

In practice, this meant more public land was set aside for conservation purposes and, in the areas still open to logging, cut blocks — those strategically shorn sections of forest seen in aerial photos — grew smaller.

None of the coffee growing areas we saw came close to matching the structural complexity of native forest, a characteristic that is highly important to biodiversity.

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.

The only other coffees on the site I see labeled shade grown are the Panama Bambito which is in an area where much of the coffee is grown under good shade plus they have 5 ha of forest (I've been in that area, too), and the Ecuadorian coffee.

We were traveling through virtual forests of cactus, many of which only grow in this area.

Business News of Tuesday, 8 May 2018 Source: ghananewsagency.org File photo Significant progress is being made towards strengthening forest landscape governance, to protect five reserves in Ghana's main cocoa growing areas in the Western Region — Sui River, Suhuma, Tano - Ehuro, Tano - Suhien and Santomang, as the local communities begin to show ownership of the reserves.

In contrast, there are more tree species growing in the forests of South East Asia and Africa that are of economic interest themselves, which means that deforestation in these areas is especially harmful.

From the shrinking area of tropical forest to a decline in the amount of wheat and rice grown per person, all their trends paint a picture of a world sinking deeper into misery.

On a per - unit - area basis, the cannabis grows resulted in 1.5 times more forest loss and 2.5 times greater fragmentation of the landscape, breaking up large, contiguous forest into smaller patches and reducing wildlife habitat.

When a fire sweeps through a forest, or a lumber company strips an area of all of its trees, the greenery will eventually grow back.

In a new study published in the African Journal of Ecology, scientists advocate the temporary removal of lianas in selected areas to help tropical forests grow back.

Certainly possible in Australia where there are large areas of relatively undisturbed forest with plenty of potential prey... there have been consistent sightings in the Blue Mountains area west of Sydney over many decades which suggest that rather than just an isolated zoo escapee or over grown pet there may be a breeding population, which would be a bit of a worry for us bush walkers!

This installation at the Forest Lane Station in the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system commemorates the Hamilton Park neighborhood, built in 1953 to serve the needs of the region's growing black professional community, Campbell says.

Riparian forests — the ribbons of trees that grow along river channels — play an important ecological role as refuges for endangered species in dry areas.

► Lightning strikes a lighthouse and we see a close - up of gel spreading and becoming larger at the base of the building where a small fire burns briefly; a wall of gel rises like a curtain from a jungle forest into the sky, making noises like muttering and muffled roars as we hear that the phenomenon is spreading and destroying all species on Earth; five scientists armed with military rifles enter the area to find trees that have become covered with flowers, woody plants have grown into human shapes covered with blossoms, the bodies of three missing soldiers have been engulfed with vines, moss, and lichens that have grown out of the bodies and the head of a soldier is found in a path (we see no blood or facial expression).

Many schools are introducing a holistic approach to supporting healthy children by embedding a culture of physical activity into every aspect of school life; for instance, teaching as much of the curriculum outside, as possible, creating «garden and grow» areas, becoming «forest schools» or opening their playground before and after school hours.

East Texas is home to pine forests, cypress swamps and the Dallas - Fort Worth metro area, one of the fastest - growing spots in the state.

They are also blessed with an incredible amount of energy and growing up in a very rural area with lakes and forest all around us, one of the freedoms our dogs got to enjoy was never really having to be on a leash or kept inside a fenced area.

Approximately 111acres of milpa cultivation, in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary abandoned immediately before its declaration, and area's previously cleared for logging operations (including an air strip) have left patches of regenerating secondary forest Some «elfin» forest grows above 655 yards on Victoria Peak itself (outside the reserve).

Sundari Trees, one of the Mangrove Variety grow in abundance here which is why the area is named Sunderbans, «the forest of Sundari trees».

Enjoy a guided walk though this unique and ever - evolving environment using a trail guide to help you identify some of the 1000 types of tree that grow in the area, as well as some of the 430 different species of birds that call the forest canopy home.

As the San Francisco Bay Area's population has swelled and the popularity of the beloved redwood grove has grown unabated, the visitation to Muir Woods — an ancient old - growth forest with some of the tallest and oldest living things on the planet — has sky - rocketed.

The TranzAlpine The Tranz Alpine Express takes us out of the city and across the Canterbury Plains through sheep and grain growing areas to Springfield where we head off to follow the Waimakariri Valley and the Craigieburn State Forest Park to the open country around Cass.

For example, one player may want to place all shops and houses together in close proximity, creating the feel of a tight - knit community while leaving the rest of the map to feature as a dense and isolated forest to grow flowers, catch bugs etc, while another player may prefer to spread all of the towns locales evenly across the map, so that no area of the town feels too barren.

The vast majority of those 131 million acres are Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified forests (about 130 million acres, or almost 30x more than Quebec's new huge protected area), while about 1 million acres are «Rainforest Alliance Certified» farmland from the agriculture program, though that number is growing fast: «In just one year, the number of certified farms increased from 25,640 to 31,156.».

They report that stopping deforestation and allowing young secondary forests to grow back could establish a «forest sink» — an area that absorbs carbon dioxide rather than releasing it into the atmosphere — which by 2100 could grow by over 100 billion metric tons of carbon, about ten times the current annual rate of global fossil fuel emissions.

Rather, while profitably meeting growing demand for wood products, humanity can vastly increase the area of forests and simultaneously reduce the amount of those forests that is disturbed.

These include the growing concern in commodity markets on the environmental performance of ranchers and farmers; greater investment in fire control mechanisms among owners of fire - sensitive investments; emergence of a carbon market for forest - based offsets; and the establishment of protected areas in regions where development is fast - expanding.

Because of the continuing climatic change, experts say some areas that are burning this year may never return as forest — they are more likely to grow back as heat - tolerant grass or shrub lands, storing far less carbon than the forests they replace.

Is it not obvious that around the world during a major climatic shift with large areas of ice receding and forest growing over thousands of years, you are going to get a mix of proxy temperature records!!

Forests are now located in areas where no tree has grown over the last millenium, says Frank Hagedorn, one of the authors.

Though it may seem small, there's also accessory areas like an outdoor deck with panoramic views of Umpqua National Forest, and a garden where they grow some their own food, so the two say that they don't feel cramped at all.

An additional 150 million hectares of forest lands have been granted protected status since 1990, and during that same period, area that were already protected have grown in size by around 200 million hectares.

As someone who grew up around Legion AA baseball, I particularly enjoyed her tour of Boise, Idaho, where Bay recommends the Boise Hawks Memorial Stadium and a write - up by Objective Justice on the «arbitrary and capricious» behavior by the United States Forest Service in a roadless area of the Tongass National Forest (Natural Resources v. U.S. Forest Service).

The Greenbelt is a permanently protected area of green space, farmland, forests, wetlands, and watersheds, located in Southern Ontario, Canada.It surrounds a significant portion of Canada's most populatedand fastest - growing area — the Golden Horseshoe.