Sentences with phrase «development by the rainforest»

One is Eco-OK program development by the Rainforest Alliance and a network of Latin America environmental organizations, and the other is the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (SMBC) criteria.

Not exact matches

African Fine Coffee Conference February 14 - 16, 2018 — Kampala, Uganda Participants include Michelle Deugd, Rainforest Alliance Director, Program Design & Development, and Britta Wyss Bisang, Chief of Sustainable Supply Chains + UTZ East Africa Team, who will be keynote speaker on the Sustainability Day organized by UTZ on February 13.

In a new development roughly 45 countries with tropical rainforests are proposing to cut their deforestation by a quarter in 5 years as part of a deal to be finalized next week at the Copenhagen climate conference.

For example, is the ongoing destruction of the Indonesian rainforest driven by the economic development of Indonesians?

There is precedent, he noted, pointing to largely successful efforts by NGOs to preserve South American rainforests by purchasing their development rights and allowing the native trees to stand.

The report, funded by the Arcus Foundation, analyzed data collected with support from Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, KfW (German Development Bank), ICCN, Newman's Own Foundation, Rainforest Trust, UNESCO, USAID, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and World Bank.

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.

This study was supported by the UN Development Programme, Avatar Alliance Foundation, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, Worldwide Fund for Nature, Morgan Family Foundation, Natural Environmental Research Council, and the Rainforest Trust.

If your idea of spiritual development requires a lot of creature comforts, book one of 27 villas on Song Saa Private Island, where one can relish Buddhist teachings and meditations surrounded by rainforest.

The Daintree Rainforest is a world untouched by the world of urban development, noise and air pollution.

Cataratas Fortuna — This beautiful waterfall set in the rainforest near the edge of Arenal Volcano National Park is managed by a local community development group (Asociación de Desarollo de Fortuna) who charge about $ 20 for entry.

It is being sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development, Alliance MéxicoREDD +: TNC, Woodshole Research Centre, Carnegie Institute of Science, Rainforest Alliance, and FMCN.

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In areas where infrastructure is poor and carbon stores are high, REDD may offer attractive economic returns relative to conventional logging and agricultural use of forest land, especially for rural communities, which are often bypassed by industrial development of rainforests.

Joint Submission by the Center for Carbon Removal, Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, Forest Trends, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Nature Conservancy, Rainforest Alliance, Wildlife Conservation Society, and the Woods Hole Research Center, regarding views on APA Item 6: Matters relating to the global stocktake referred to in Article 14 of the Paris Agreement: (a) identification of the sources of input for the global stocktake; and (b) development of the modalities of the global stocktake, in particular the role of the land sector and its potential for enhanced action, including Intact Forest Landscapes

The UN-backed Interim Forest Finance project, which is funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, said immediate action by governments is needed to spur demand for forest offset credits or else efforts to protect the world's rainforests will wither away.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

A rubber tapper by trade, Mendes fought to preserve the rainforest which sustained the profession, opposing development and deforestation from cattle farmers and loggers.

African Fine Coffee Conference February 14 - 16, 2018 — Kampala, Uganda Participants include Michelle Deugd, Rainforest Alliance Director, Program Design & Development, and Britta Wyss Bisang, Chief of Sustainable Supply Chains + UTZ East Africa Team, who will be keynote speaker on the Sustainability Day organized by UTZ on February 13.