Sentences with phrase «areas of the forest as»

While all are bad, according to Tejedor, logging is less problematic because it only opens up small areas of the forest as select trees are chosen and cut down.

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'' We're very excited about the green roof because it will add additional texture and color and send an extraordinary message about urban areas as innovative, sustainable and attractive,» said MaryAnne Gilmartin, president and CEO of Forest City Ratner Cos., which built the arena.

As a result, the vast area of tropical forests has been destroyed to develop huge plantation of corn, tapioca, cotton and other commercial products.

In the United States we have long preserved scenic areas as national parks and tried to control exploitation of resources in national forests.

One isolated ridge - top in the Andean foothills of western Ecuador, only twenty square kilo - meters in area, lost as many as ninety unique plant species when the last of its forest was cleared to plant subsistence crops (Wolf 1987).

Five pilot areas - Blackburn, Bradford, Peterborough, Walsall and the London borough of Waltham Forest - will develop local integration plans allowing new strategies to be tested as the programme develops.

Chiltepin Preserve Officially DedicatedAfter a decade of waiting, Native Seeds / SEARCH, a Tucson - based seed conservation organization, announced that the National Forest Service has officially designated a 4 - square - mile area in the Coronado National Forest as a Special Management Area for the wild chile pepper, or chiltearea in the Coronado National Forest as a Special Management Area for the wild chile pepper, or chilteArea for the wild chile pepper, or chiltepin.

Keeping native vegetation such as natural forests or grasslands as fragments within production areas or along streams and rivers can make a lot of difference for conservation.

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.

In other areas, such as portions of Brazil where the native vegetation is not forest, shade canopy cover may be less appropriate ecologically or agronomically.

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).

Farms located in areas where the original natural vegetative cover is forest must establish and maintain, as part of the conservation program, permanent shade distributed homogenously throughout the plantations; the shade must meet the following requirements:

Brazil's Atlantic Forest, which has been identified as a critical area of biodiversity and also one of the most endangered forests in the world, will the recipient of these trees.

It is using FRED as a stepping stone to its next project, which is to create a mini forest school area — one of the dads at FRED is a landscape gardener a great asset to this next stage.

There are lots of things to see as it winds through forests, around lakes and through grassy areas.

Visitors will be able to see up close and learn about live raptors from the Blue Hills Trailside Museum, visit the Animal Adventures petting zoo, and take part in activities led by Boston Nature Center's teacher - naturalists as well as collaborating organizations including Boston Natural Areas Network, the Museum of Science, Renew Boston, and the U.S. Forest Service.

Today, more than 300 families live in the area of Highland Park west of 41 and north of Deerfield Road, often known as Sherwood Forest.

When contacted Thursday, Alan Iftiniuk, vice president of operations at Good Shepherd, said, «I don't see our facility as competition for Forest Grove or any other athletic club in this area.»

Most of the targets included Boko Haram fuel pump storages, Solar Panels, Meeting Points and hideouts in the samuba forests as most of the areas were identified first before the air strikes.

Covering about 32,020 hectares of forest land, the Kalakpa Game Reserve traverses two traditional areas; Adaklu and Abutia, and it is home for wild animals such as buffaloes, antelopes, baboons and smaller mammals.

«The classification of the Boreas Ponds as Wilderness and the expansion of High Peaks Wilderness Area marks a great day for the Forest Preserve and Adirondack Park,» said Protect the Adirondacks» Executive Director Peter Bauer in a statement.

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.

Fracking would be banned in and around the city's watershed as well as within 500 feet of state aquifers and on state land, including parks, forests and wildlife areas — a significant reversal from its 2009 position.

As a result, of the 101 bird species measured in the area before forest cutting, 97 were living in at least one of the reconnecting forest fragments.

Scientists have found that small streams, in areas of the eastern Brazilian Amazon that are a mixture of forest and farmland, contain fauna new to science, as well as very rare species.

The authors found that in the early 1970s, ~ 75 % of Borneo was forested, and from 1973 to 2010, the forest area declined by ~ 30 %, which is nearly twice as fast as a rate compared to the rest of the world's humid tropical forests.

And U.S. agencies should adopt standards for measuring, monitoring and verifying international forest activities that prevent double - counting and account for the potential for forest emissions to shift to other areas as a result of climate policy.

The results suggest biomass burning of polluted forest fuels may exacerbate poor air quality — and related health concerns — in some of the world's most heavily polluted areas, among them, the Los Angeles metropolitan area, which is expected to suffer from more wildfires as drought conditions continue.

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.

«Representation,» for example, is one large - scale strategy, focused on preserving representative areas of every identifiable ecosystem, such as savannah, tropical moist forest, tundra, desert, coral reef.

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.

If everything goes according to plan, data from the US probe will help researchers track large natural sources and sinks of CO2, such as oceans and forests, and perhaps some manmade sources, such as sprawling urban areas or even large power plants.

The world's coastal ecosystems — areas such as tidal marshes and mangrove forests — have the potential to store and sequester large amounts of carbon, collectively known as blue carbon.

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.

Grasslands and semi-arid regions are not nearly as carbon dense as forests, so on a global scale, loss of carbon storage in those areas because of expanding energy development doesn't have much of an effect on global climate change, said

Longer, hotter fire seasons where extreme fire behavior has become the new norm, as well as increased development in forested areas, is dramatically driving up the cost of fighting fires and squeezing funding for the very efforts that would protect watersheds and restore forests to make them more resilient to fire.

In order to account for the characteristic features of cascading use, wood researcher Michael Risse applied the holistic life cycle approach and analyzed the exergy of all materials used, the internal recycling processes, and the consumption of other primary resources, such as the forest land areas required.

Researcher Van Kane found that as intensity increased, the canopy (red and orange) decreased, while the number of gaps (blue) increased, creating a mosaic of openings and forest stands in low - to moderately burned areas.

Then there are independent organisations such as the Institute of Amazonian Studies in Curitiba, the SOS Mata Atlantica, which is campaigning to save what remains of the Atlantic forest, and the Biodiversities Foundation in Belo Horizonte, which is trying to save various species and has sought to turn environmentally important areas into reserves.

According to the MPOB, the government has committed to preserve 50 percent of Malaysia's total land area as forest.

The researchers incorporated information on soot produced by burning fossil fuels, wood and other biofuels, along with that naturally produced by forest fires and then checked their model predictions against global measurements of soot levels in polar snow from Sweden to Alaska to Russia and in Antarctica as well as in nonpolar areas such as the Tibetan Plateau.

«This is critical for the hundreds of species that we identified as being clearly dependent on intact forest core areas — that is forest which is at least 200 - 400m from the edge.

Parts of Europe, says Sedjo, «began their forest expansion as early as the mid-1800s... 24 of the 25 European countries increased their forest area between 1954 and 1984».

The researchers focused on streams draining seven national forests in the southern Appalachian region, first mapping out how much of the area's current habitat is suitable for acid - and heat - sensitive aquatic species such as the native brook trout.

Scientists have already linked aerosol emissions to increases in lightning over areas of the Amazon prone to forest fires (pdf) as well as regions of China with thick air pollution.

A new global analysis of forest habitat loss and wildlife extinction risk published July 19 in the journal Nature shows that species most at risk live in areas just beginning to see the impacts of human activities such as hunting, mining, logging and ranching.

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.

«These differences become enhanced in areas with strong geographic features, such as the coastline and at the crest of mountain ranges,» said John Kim, co-author on the paper and a scientist with the Pacific Northwest Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service.

A UFZ team of scientists led by Andreas Huth described in Nature Communications in spring of last year that fragmentation of once connected tropical forest areas could increase carbon emissions worldwide by another third, as many trees die and less carbon dioxide is stored in the edge of forest fragments.