Sentences with phrase «forest areas»

By offering Mount Vernon green homes for sale, Skagit Highlands is improving the living of Mount Vernon's residence by partnering with local land trusts to preserve streams, wetlands, forest areas and open spaces.

The largest of these designated Community Forest areas covers more than 500 square miles of Merseyside and North Cheshire and was named The Mersey Forest.

Depending on the resources, location and the size of the park or reserved forest areas, the job duties might vary and also change as per the requirements.

With a large population and large forest areas, New Hampshire is susceptible to wildfires.

This includes remote desert, ocean and rain forest areas where reliable climate data are not otherwise available.

As you will see in the following report, we mapped out forest areas that are responsible for recharging both rivers and groundwater serving major population areas, in Kenya, and in the region.

Although they make up only 1 % of all tropical forest areas, the thickness of this carbon - rich layer means mangroves hold as much as a quarter of the carbon of tropical peat lands.

The study, based on a computer model used to simulate rainfall under different land - use conditions, found that cutting down tropical forests in West Africa reduces precipitation over neighboring forest areas by about 50 percent due to increased temperatures over cropland areas.

(09/19/2011) Converting West African rainforests into cropland reduces rainforest in adjacent forest areas, reports research published in Geophysical Research Letters.

It is designed to utilize degraded lands and prohibit the expansion of production in forest areas, thus helping to fight deforestation — which converges with the Amazon Ecological - Economic Macrozoning law.

For example, methane is emitted from rice fields, which are of course wetlands, and methane is emitted from biomass burning, either from burning of forest areas for cultivation or the use of wood in furnaces.

His work led to the establishment of Brazil's extractive reserves protected forest areas that are inhabited and managed by local communities.

The burn duration has increased steadily decade by decade as well, and in each of the five forest areas we studied.

«The most serious impact of coffee cultivation continues to be the conversion of natural forest areas to plant coffee.»

The regulation will only allow mining activities to operate under the forest areas.

A number of firms have applied for mining permits in protected forest areas.

But because there are no official maps delineating the boundaries of the forest areas, land at the edges of burned out forests are often claimed by developers after fires.

«This is an effort to identify where forest areas are most important to the conservation and recovery of the spotted owl.»

Deforestation is the conversion of forest to another land use — this includes conversion in «invaluable» forest areas - e.g. palm oil plantations and other uses.

The Luangwa River is a pivotal lifeline for some of the richest forest areas in the entirety of Africa.

With one of the world's highest rates of primary forest loss and a series of controversial concessions granted to foreign companies in key forest areas, Cambodia is widely viewed as an environmental pariah.

The agreement also provides for a monitoring, reporting, and verification system as well as a degraded lands database, which will help Indonesian officials get a better sense of what land, outside forest areas, is available for development.

Under the agreement, Indonesia will establish a two - year moratorium on new forestry concessions in primary forest areas and peatlands beginning in January 2011.

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.

Many inhabitants within the project regions are forced to cut down trees for firewood or to clear forest areas for agricultural land.

There are a number of man - made contributory factors that may have had specific impacts on the atmospheric heating, e.g. local warming in the cities (due to housing, roads, and other resultant factors), smoke and dust over long distances or deforestation of huge forest areas.

And we consider it important to balance the investments we're making across the adaptation and the clean energy and also forest areas, so that we're not only dealing with climate impacts today and helping the poorest countries do that, but we're also making the investments necessary to prevent even greater harms in the future.

Right now, forest areas are often worth more harvested than left standing.

Information revealed through the investigative efforts of Ouch and his colleagues at the Cambodia Human Rights Task Force contributed to a national moratorium on new land concessions in forest areas.

In a December 2013 warning to potential investors in a US$ 90 million initial public offering for PT SSS, EIA revealed an independent evaluation of the firm's prospectus showed illegal clearance of forest areas and direct threats to orangutan habitat posed by planned expansion of the firm's oil palm plantations.

Besides being economically attractive, wood energy is a strategic option for increased energy security, particularly in countries that have large forest areas and that depend on energy imports.

Dr. Nepstad says that landowners in the Amazon — especially those with fire - sensitive investments like orchards, intensive - cattle operations, and managed timber harvesting — are curtailing the use of fire as a land - management tool, reducing the incidence of fires that escape into neighboring forest areas.

The criteria include: using natural pests and composting in place of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers whenever possible; implementing no - burn policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut the risk of fires spreading into forest areas; sparing forests with high conservation value from development; taking measures to reduce air pollution; and creating catchment ponds to prevent palm oil mill effluent — a byproduct — from entering waterways where it would damage aquatic habitats.

Overall, forest areas contained 45 % more carbon than vineyard but variation between ranches was extreme depending on the amount, and type, of vegetation present.

A computer illustration created by the wildlife activist group WWF - Indonesia using Google Earth provides a tour of Sumatran rain forest areas at risk of destruction by logging companies and palm oil producers.

It identified results of decreased emissions from land use, deforestation, forest degradation and improved management of land and forest areas.

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.

Protected areas are the mainstay for biodiversity conservation although other forest areas are also important.

The Liberian government does not yet exert full control of forest areas.

The directional reflectance of more continuous forest areas is better described by volume ‐ scattering mechanisms.

Many of these forest areas overlap with historical land claims made by Myanmar's ethnic minority groups who could permanently lose their land, further enflaming decades - old armed conflicts with the national government.

In addition, the researchers found that peat forest areas, where stored carbon is most abundant and thus cheapest to manage, contained almost twice the mammal species density as other areas of forest.

A series of drawings in gouache and graphite by Argentinian artist Irene Kopelman (b. 1974) will be on view at Labor, documenting her month - long expedition to the Manu Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the largest protected forest areas in Peru, while Zeno X Gallery will feature a rare «war drawing» on canvas by Kim Jones (b. 1944), which refers to the artist's time in Vietnam.

While a large portion is dealing with the cold and seeing the intense effects on her character there are also some very beautiful scenic areas that feature warmer forest areas.

A few areas also received a major graphical overhaul, but that is sadly limited to the beginning of the game, mainly making lively forest areas out of the mountain leading to the ninja fortress and Hayabusa village.

The game takes players to a number of different environments ranging from lava caverns, river and forest areas, and even the clouds!

Forest areas have an almost mystical vibe accented by bright colors, plenty of flora, stone bridges, and small buildings.

The new - gen and PC versions of Grand Theft Auto 5 will include all 11 of the previously released Grand Theft Auto Online updates within Story Mode from day one, which includes a total of 29 vehicles and 12 weapons, new land, air, and sea vehicles, the ability to duck while driving, improved vehicle management at garages, and even special time and weather - based world particles, like fireflies in forest areas and experiencing mist in swamp areas.

Ravens appear in forest areas of Holodrum.

Mewtwo All Factory Areas after Battle Royale EX-6 Lugia All Beach Areas Ho - Oh 3 -2-Autumnwood, 3 -3-Autumnwood Latias All Meadow Areas Latios All Meadow Areas Kyogre All Beach Areas Groudon All Lava Areas Rayquaza All Tower Areas Deoxys All Factory Areas Dialga All Cave Areas Palkia All Lake Areas Heatran All Lava Areas Regigigas All Desert Areas Giratina All Hauntyard Areas (can obtain both forms) Cresselia All Field Areas Darkrai All Hauntyard Areas Arceus All Tower Areas after Team Battle EX-6 Cobalion All Cave Areas after defeating Terrakion and Virizion Terrakion All Field Areas Virizion All Forest Areas Tornadus 3 -2-Autumnwood (requires 3 encounters before battle) Thundurus 3 -3-Autumnwood (requires 3 encounters before battle) Reshiram All Cave Areas Zekrom All Cave Areas Landorus 3 -2-Autumnwood (requires defeating Tornadus and Thundurus) Kyurem All Glacier Areas