Sentences with phrase «cleared areas of forest»

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.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

Making the disclosure ina statement last night, Col Sani Usman, Acting Director, Army Public Relations said, «Troops operating in Bama axis on a fighting patrol today cleared Boko Haram terrorists out of Aulari general area located within the Sambisa forest.

The authors of the study suspect that the mountain pastures, which many hundreds of years ago also used to be wooded areas before the advent of alpine farming, must have lost a considerable portion of their original humus stock relatively soon after the forests had been cleared to make room for the pastures.

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.

By observing a series of photographs in this area, researchers estimated that roughly 247 acres of forest were cleared per week.

And between 1995 and 2006 an average of 19,497 square kilometers of forest was cleared in the Amazon annually, or an area equal to that covered by roughly 3.5 million American football fields.

Paulo Moutinho and his colleagues at UFPA studied an area of forest that was cleared 16 years ago.

Satellite data for the 12 months through the end of July 2013 showed that 5,891 square km (3,360 square miles) of forest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon, an area half the size of Puerto Rico.

Despite the increase in 2013, the cleared area is still the second - lowest annual figure since the Brazilian government began tracking deforestation in 2004, when almost 30,000 square km (11,580 square miles) of forest were lost.

Nighttime photographs of orangutan movements over 2.5 years (see above) revealed that the shaggy apes frequently hike through pristine and regrowing forests, cleared areas, and even along deserted logging roads.

Scaling their findings up, Rezende and his colleagues estimate that former forest's total cleared area sends between 50,000 to 70,000 tonnes of dissolved black carbon to the marine environment.

An area near Acre, Brazil, shows the progression of forest to grazing land on a large cattle ranch: intact forest (left), forest being burned to make pasture (top), newly cleared forest (bottom) and grass ready to graze (right).

Less than 150 years ago, vast areas of forest in New England were cleared for agricultural use and to supply timber for local development.

So the researchers determined insect diversity within the three aforementioned windthrow sites, both in areas cleared of uprooted trees and in unsalvaged forest.

Much of the old - growth forest in the area has been cleared for pasture in the last 50 years, but about 30 percent of the old - growth remains in patches ranging from less than two to more than 2,500 acres.

By stopping road construction, which enables access to remote regions of the rain forest, we can stop deforestation of the Amazon, especially areas cleared for livestock purposes.

We know that early «Out of Africa» settlers to that area around 45,000 BC were already clearing forests in order to plant yams; and were notable boaters and fishermen.

Today it's known as an area of genuine natural splendour; dense forest with looming mountains and clear water below.

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).

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

What's not in this article like the dead areas of the oceans, the clear cut rain forests, the overcrowded cities, the CO2 infected atmosphere, the deteriorated ozone, the polluted rivers, the melting permafrost, and more and more just might make one wonder whether it is possible to convert all this to Paradise, or is Paradise just being lost forever.

Between 2008 and 2014 payments stopped 9 % of the forest area from being cleared.

• We are asking the government of Brazil to block a proposed new law that would remove the obligation to restore illegally cleared forests, and which would reduce the areas which must be set aside for conservation.

Indigenous populations used fire to clear large areas of tropical forest well before the arrival of Europeans reports a new study published in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

During the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, «many lives were lost because mangrove forests had been cleared in some coastal areas of Myanmar,» said Nang Mya Han, professor at Myeik University in Myanmar, which contains 500,000 hectares of mangroves — the fourth - largest area in Southeast Asia.

A bill to change the country's Forest Law is about to be approved, resulting in the increase of deforestation by reducing protected areas, removing the obligations for the restoration of cleared areas, and pardoning loggers.

The abandoned town of Anyox burned down in 1942 and started a forest fire that cleared out much of the damaged trees over a very large area.

Still, forest areas the size of entire cities are cleared in the Brazilian Amazon every year and «burning season» fires have returned at record - breaking levels.

More rational utilization of already cleared and degraded areas, combined with intensification of soy and cattle production, will help reduce the need to clear forest land.

It's not just the turbines themselves, sometimes situated in areas of previous outstanding natural beauty that are the problem — access roads also blight the view, whilst miles of forests have been cleared to give the turbines better access to high winds, and pylons must be erected connecting the turbines to the grid.

Preventing the clearing of forest area for perennial bioenergy cropping was also taken as one reason for the aggressive adoption of this solution in the degraded grassland area.

For timber, all wood must be certified to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) 100 % labeling standards, from salvaged sources, or from the intentional harvest of on - site timber for the purpose of clearing the area for construction or restoring / maintaining the continued ecological function of the on - site bionetwork.

Concerns over the certification standard have been stoked by pictures which activists claim show RSPO members continuing to clear high value conservation forest areas (HCV) in violation of certification protocol.

In many parts of the world trees and forests have been cleared from huge areas; Australia has lost a very large proportion of the scrub, woodland and forest that it once had in its agricultural areas.

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.

Carbon Emissions Could Increase Still if Remaining Unprotected Areas Cleared They also found that in the the remaining unprotected forests in the region the amount of carbon stored in the biomass is higher still — 231 metric tons per hectare in these areas, versus 183 - 201 metric tons in the areas cleared in 2001 - Areas Cleared They also found that in the the remaining unprotected forests in the region the amount of carbon stored in the biomass is higher still — 231 metric tons per hectare in these areas, versus 183 - 201 metric tons in the areas cleared in 2001 Cleared They also found that in the the remaining unprotected forests in the region the amount of carbon stored in the biomass is higher still — 231 metric tons per hectare in these areas, versus 183 - 201 metric tons in the areas cleared in 2001 - areas, versus 183 - 201 metric tons in the areas cleared in 2001 - areas cleared in 2001 cleared in 2001 - 2007.

Which means that the proportion of heat in the ocean as opposed to the atmosphere might be slightly different (big deal because the oceans store so much heat), that albedo might be slightly higher because you have less areas covered by forests which are darker than clear land and thus absorb more sunlight, and so on.