Sentences with phrase «to conserve forests»

Monthly giving is a powerful and easy way to conserve forests in the most eco-friendly way possible.

You can find more information about our work to conserve forests here.

Governments of 50 countries last week failed to reach agreement on how to regulate world trade in timber to help conserve forests.

«Working lands, like those managed by SFI - certified companies, represent some of the best opportunities for conserving forest bird breeding habitat,» says Jim Shallow, conservation and policy director for Audubon Vermont.

He initiated the Chipko movement, which has been an important factor in awakening Indians to the environmental question, particularly the importance of conserving the forest trees in the Himalayan region.

Together, we are joining forces to rejuvenate agricultural landscapes conserve forests, foster sustainable livelihoods and build climate resilience across vulnerable regions; transform business practices and drive supply chain innovation, and engage consumers in positive change.

While studying their diversity at conserved forests and cattle grazing sites across the mountains of Mexico, the researchers found some new species of dung beetles.

Tribes and Native - owned corporations are making huge profits by conserving their forests for carbon offset programs — an effort that could revolutionize conservation.

The Rainforest Alliance uses a comprehensive range of strategies to conserve forests around the world.

The program, which was conditionally approved by the World Bank's Carbon Fund in June — and which WWF hopes to expand to the national level in the DRC — has the potential to significantly reduce emissions while conserving the forests and alleviating poverty.

In his 2015 Opportunity Agenda, Governor Cuomo announced the Protected Landscapes and Thriving Communities initiative to foster the Adirondack's tourism economy, conserve the Forest Preserve and help communities thrive.

«Encouraging companies to conserve forests rather than just avoid deforestation will be an important next step as we try to increase the impact of corporate sustainability initiatives,» Heilmayr said.

In London, the World Rainforest Movement claimed that, far from conserving the forest, the project would act as a magnet for foreign timber and mining companies to move into the remote interior of Guyana.

Sylvain Nyandwi of the Great Apes Trust of Iowa (the organisation currently charged with conserving the forest), said that 19 chimps had been identified but there were likely to be more elusive thieves out there that had yet to be accounted for.

If you are interested to take part in conserving this forest please visit Padangtegal Wenara Wana's main office at Monkey Forest entrance.

Although built on the same «polluter pays» principle that spawned REDD, the program that is being cancelled is not a rigorous compensation - for - performance program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but a simple mechanism that funnels some auto - emission payments to landowners in the Lacandon Jungle to conserve forest lands.

Research from the Amazon region has confirmed that payments to landowners can conserve forest biodiversity.

Both studies come within weeks of a finding that African villagers will conserve their forest plots more carefully if given even quite small payments not to clear the woodland.

And repeated studies have confirmed that conserved forests deliver many benefits.

landscapes in three selected zones to conserve forest remnants and increase the value of standing native forests to expand economic opportunities for local communities.

Therefore the development of policy mechanisms like REDD will involve thorny issues like traditional land rights as well as broader questions on how compensation will be structured and what measures will effectively conserve forests without driving more people into poverty.

Developing countries already conserving their forests must be rewarded.

CARBON OFFSETS: Native American tribes and corporations are earning millions by conserving forests through carbon offset programs.

Meanwhile the good guys — those who have conserved their forests all along — may get nothing.

Together, we are joining forces to rejuvenate agricultural landscapes conserve forests, foster sustainable livelihoods and build climate resilience across vulnerable regions; transform business practices and drive supply chain innovation, and engage consumers in positive change.

«This project is a prime example of a successful model for conserving forests and simultaneously fighting poverty.»

«They align with a growing availability of monitoring data from satellites and other sources as well as a proliferation of national and international public policies aimed at conserving forests to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.»

Every gift brings us closer to protecting and conserving forests around the globe for future generations.

While the benefit of conserving a tree is the same regardless of the location, paying individuals to conserve forests in developing countries like Uganda is less expensive, making it cheaper to reduce overall emissions.

Trees worth more dead than alive Unlike the House version of the climate bill, which set aside 5 percent of all pollution allowances to pay for tropical forest conservation, the Kerry - Lieberman legislation aspires to the same goal of conserving forests but devotes no specific funding to the effort.

Conserving forests is a key aim of many ISEAL members.

With the launch of SmartWood in 1989, the Rainforest Alliance developed the world's first global forestry certification program and the first to rely on market forces to conserve forests.

In Africa, this approach is still in its nascent stages, but there is one country where community forestry has already shown significant potential as a tool for conserving forests and promoting sustainable local development.

With the support of the Rainforest Alliance and the Rights and Resources Initiative, these community representatives have come to see first - hand what is increasingly recognized as the best way to conserve forests: sustainable and productive community forest enterprise.

Farmers in western Ghana are conserving forests, reducing emissions, increasing carbon storage, and enhancing their farms» productivity,

He commences every training with a brief lecture emphasizing the critical role farmers play in conserving forests and biodiversity.

Design, implement, and collaborate with external researchers to carry out evaluation and impact assessment research for Rainforest Alliance's agriculture sustainability certification programs as well as broader research on the effectiveness of strategies to conserve forests, promote the sustainability of production systems, and improve human wellbeing in the context of agriculture and forestry landscapes and supply chains.

That's why the Rainforest Alliance has spent more than 30 years working to conserve forests and to improve the lives of those who depend upon them.

Farmers, local governments, and businesses in the Peruvian Amazon are working to conserve forests, build climate resilience, and strengthen the role of women farmers.

What we do together over the next few years to conserve forests will determine the fate of our planet.

Your support helps us fight habitat loss and climate change, working with local communities to conserve forests and prosper.

Researchers hope that the data will inform policies that aim to conserve forests at the same time as reducing poverty.

This international institution is «committed to conserving forests and improving the livelihoods of people in the tropics» in over 30 countries around Southeast Asia, Africa, and Central America.

There are already some schemes in Brazil to pay private land owners to set aside land to conserve the forest, preserve species and maintain healthy ecosystems, but these have been local - scale initiatives that have had little impact on maintaining and improving the conditions of the forest as a whole.