The assessment will be
conducted by the Rainforest Alliance and will cover ten of Musim Mas Group's Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certified mills in Indonesia.
The REDD + project has a combined VCS and CCB Double Gold Validation for biodiversity protection which was
conducted by the Rainforest Alliance.
Not exact matches
Participate in audits on the
Rainforest Alliance Standard
conducted by CBs on a regular basis, collecting inputs to strengthen the certification program;
Rainforest Alliance certification and verification services are
conducted by program staff and consultants who meet established criteria for experience and training and who have not provided related consulting services or technical assistance to the business being audited for at least the past two years.
The
Rainforest Alliance is accredited
by Accreditation Services International (ASI) to
conduct audits and issue Forest Stewardship Council ® (FSC) certificates.
Lead or support selected evaluation and impact assessment research projects on priority topics, both through original analysis of
Rainforest Alliance - collected data and
by collaborating with or supporting external research partners to
conduct independent assessments;
According to the authors, since the 1970s, when studies
conducted by Professor Eneas Salati demonstrated that the Amazon generates approximately half of its own rainfall, the question has been raised of how much deforestation would be required to degrade the region's hydrological cycle to the point at which it would be unable to support
rainforest ecosystems.
Frustrated
by the lack of a good study model, Krasnow and his colleagues turned to the mouse lemur and began
conducting detailed physiologic and genetic studies on hundreds of these petite, docile creatures in the
rainforests of Madagascar.
A study
conducted by scientists in Brazil and the United Kingdom has quantified the impact that selective logging, partial destruction
by burning, and fragmentation resulting from the development of pastures and plantations have had on the Amazon
rainforest.
Considering forest - threatening factors such as fires, deforestation, and the emission of greenhouse gases, the research found if the regions of the Amazon most crucial to maintaining the biome's climate are lost, large sections of the once lush
rainforest may be reduced to a virtual desert.According to a report from Globo Amazônia, the study
conducted by Gilvan Sampaio of National Institute of Special Research (INPE) found that the vegetation of the Amazon will be particularly impacted
by rising global temperatures in the years to come, in addition to the continued threats posed
by deforestation and fires.