The phrase
"deforestation rates" refers to the rate or speed at which trees are being cut down and removed from forests or wooded areas.
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The project is part of our longstanding and highly successful strategy of using sustainable community forestry to reduce
deforestation rates in the area to nearly zero.
The system has helped dramatically
reduce deforestation rates, from nearly 12,000 hectares per year in the 1990s to just 3,000 hectares per year in 2000.
The researchers say the average
annual deforestation rates in forests over which indigenous peoples have secure tenure are significantly lower than in those without it.
And if current
deforestation rates continue, these critical habitats could disappear from the planet completely within the next hundred years.
Researchers have created a global map of the world's forests in the year 1990, enabling accurate comparisons between past and
current deforestation rates.
As a result, the researchers explain, changes in
annual deforestation rates will initially have a smaller than expected effect on annual carbon emissions.
2:32 p.m. Updated I received an e-mail last week from a publicist at Fleishman - Hillard, forwarding news that Brazil's Ministry of Environment had announced the lowest
Amazon deforestation rates for the month of August since precise monitoring began in 2004.
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Cut Deforestation Rates to Record Lows
Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) fell 4.9 percent in 2012 as
declining deforestation rates and a drought - induced drop in cattle herds outweighed increased emissions from the energy sector, an independent study showed on Thursday.
Temer government claimed a victory
as deforestation rate declines slightly, but green groups said announcement was no cause for celebration
Sectoral REDD activities would generate market - based credits by reducing
net deforestation rates over an entire country.
Our impacts in Mexico and Central America are nothing short of stunning: In areas managed by our partner communities in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, for example, logging has remained at almost zero since 2001 — remarkable given that adjacent areas suffer some of the
worst deforestation rates in the Americas.
By the year 2020, 100 Mha of Brazil Amazonia forest will have disappeared
if deforestation rates continue as in 2002/03, and the soybean - planted area in South America could reach 59 Mha, representing 57 % of the world's soybean production.
In sum, it is an important tool, but the DETER data do not represent the
total deforestation rates occurring on a monthly basis in the Brazilian Amazon.
A brief overview of Indonesia's moratorium on new forestry concessions Indonesia has had one of the world's highest
deforestation rates since 1990 due largely to logging, pulp and paper production,...
«Indonesia has the highest mangrove cover on earth, but Indonesia is experiencing the highest
mangrove deforestation rate in the world.
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Although deforestation rates have declined since the early 2000s, deforestation and other land - use change still accounts for 14 % of greenhouse gas emissions in the world.
Laurance explains: «Suppose, for example, that the
baseline deforestation rate for Indonesia is 2 million hectares per year, and the government manages to reduce this to 1 million hectares per year.
«The findings for Niassa National Reserve are particularly encouraging in the African context
because deforestation rates on the continent are five times higher than the global average, and many protected areas in Africa are losing a lot more forest.»
This attitude has resulted in tremendous progress in conserving the Brazilian Amazon, whose
deforestation rate fell more than 70 % over the past 10 years.
There is confidence in the ability to establish historic
deforestation rates based on existing remote sensing imagery, but many regions and countries argue that historic rates don't indicate the current risk of deforestation.
In 2013, The Nature Conservancy used satellite data to
compare deforestation rates São Félix do Xingu, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Pará, to CAR registration rates and found higher registration correlated with lower deforestation.
Performing a meta - analysis of the 96 models, the study found that if
deforestation rates return to pre-2004 levels, annual rainfall in the Amazon will decrease 8 percent by 2050 — a larger decline than would be seen with natural variability alone.
New research predicts that by the middle of the century annual rainfall in the Amazon could be less than the yearly amount of rain the region receives during drought years if
deforestation rates revert back to pre-2004 levels.
Essentially, drought years could become the norm for the Amazon by 2050 if
deforestation rates rebound, said Dominick Spracklen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment, United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
After reaching the lowest Amazon
deforestation rate ever recorded, Brazil faces a its next hurdle: how to maximize the increasing resolution of satellite images to monitor small - scale forest destruction
According to the United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization, overall
tropical deforestation rates this decade are 8.5 percent higher than during the 1990s