Sentences with phrase «forest areas the size»

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.

Not exact matches

Located in Bolivia's eastern lowlands, the concession covers an area the size of Rhode Island and its forests provide habitat to tapirs, giant otters, and pumas.

We worked with the Cambodian government to provide the technical background to allow them to set up the Seima Protection Forest which is in eastern Cambodia — really wonderful area for wildlife about the size of Yosemite — and set up strictly for the protection of carbon, when it was being deforested by people in search of economic well being.

Many hours later, it leads to an area of protected land called Iwokrama, a Rhode Island - size forest in the heart of Guyana, crowded with ancient buttress - trunked trees draped in liana vines.

To apply the theory, the scientists randomly distributed tree crowns of different sizes in forest areas.

While some forest - to - shrub land conversion scenarios resulted in higher stream flow, depending on factors such as the size and area covered by shrub leaves relative to tree leaves, Bart noted that a shrub - dominated landscape would not necessarily result in more water in stream.

Satellite data for the 12 months through the end of July 2013 showed that 5,891 square km (3,360 square miles) of forest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon, an area half the size of Puerto Rico.

The introduction of invasive plant species has depleted and reduced the area of the laurel forests in which this species of bird lived by up to 3 % of its original size.

Between 2000 and 2012, the world lost more forest area than it gained, according to U.S. Forest Service researchers and partners who estimated a global net loss of 1.71 million square kilometers of forest — an area about two and a half times the size of forest area than it gained, according to U.S. Forest Service researchers and partners who estimated a global net loss of 1.71 million square kilometers of forest — an area about two and a half times the size of Forest Service researchers and partners who estimated a global net loss of 1.71 million square kilometers of forest — an area about two and a half times the size of forest — an area about two and a half times the size of Texas.

A recent study found that between 2000 and 2012, nearly 15 million acres of natural forest was lost, an area roughly the size of Sri Lanka.

The new non-legally binding agreement could save more than 350 million hectares of forests and croplands - an area greater than the size of India - while also reducing the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere.

It covers an area of 10,000 square kilometers (4,200 square miles), equal to just two - tenths of one percent of the size of the Amazon forest it feeds.

As deforestation spirals out of control, bills to be voted on by Congress would roll back protections on area of forest the size of Jamaica

In Kenya the fact that only 6.988 % of the land area is under forest cover demonstrates the size of the task ahead.

The forest was cleared, a wide easy grid laid out and the development was spread across an area about 10 times the size it needed to be while ignoring the most soulful natural feature, the Sekong (Xekong) river.

At 1200km2 (745m2) this area of forest is the same size as Manhattan.

The net change in forest area in the period 2000 — 2010 is estimated at -5.2 million hectares per year (an area about the size of Costa Rica), down from -8.3 million hectares per year in the period 1990 — 2000.

At first glance, the predictions are dire: an area of tropical forest the size of India gone by 2050, one - sixth of the world's carbon budget spent in the next 35 years, a world more prone to storms and natural disasters.

An area of tropical forest the size of India will be deforested in the next 35 years, burning through more than one - sixth of the remaining carbon that can be emitted if global warming is to be kept below 2 degrees Celsius (the «planetary carbon budget»), but many of these emissions could be cheaply avoided by putting a price on carbon.

In the past decade, the FAO records, around 13m hectares of the world's forests, an area the size of England, have been lost each year.

Avoided deforestation projects now cover almost 30 million hectares, about the size of the forest area of Malaysia.

Then, according to his calculations, the area of forest loss would be 3.65 million square kilometers (1.41 million square miles)-- more than half the size of Australia if the rest of the world continues with «business as usual.»

They found that the Pastaza - Marañón peatland covers some 36,000 square kilometers — an area the size of Taiwan — and stores 3.1 billion tons of carbon, or half of Peru's aboveground forest carbon stock.

You can also think of it as an area of forest equal to sixty percent of the size of Australia, if that helps)

Due to the size of the polygons and the patchy nature of forest insect activity, some polygons may have contained unaffected areas.

Forest - tundra environments are among the best templates to analyse the spatiotemporal development of forest vegetation over several hundred years in an area of sufficient but representative size, at least several tens of square kilomForest - tundra environments are among the best templates to analyse the spatiotemporal development of forest vegetation over several hundred years in an area of sufficient but representative size, at least several tens of square kilomforest vegetation over several hundred years in an area of sufficient but representative size, at least several tens of square kilometres.

JAKARTA — More than a hundred palm oil and pulp companies in Indonesia have pledged to restore a combined area of peat forest the size of the state of Connecticut,...

In the meantime, deforestation continued unabated, with Indonesia and Brazil alone losing some 300,000 square kilometers of forest — an area the size of Italy or the Philippines — since talks in 2001 officially excluded avoided deforestation from the Kyoto Protocol.

But to think that a 20 square mile concrete area isn't hotter than a 20 square mile forest or high grasses or patch of ocean, or even somebody's front porch on a couple of acres, is delusional, and thinking that the effects of that concrete (or asphault or mixture) 20 square miles in size doesn't extend a ways out and up is insane.

Furthermore, the alerting system can not detect all forest cover loss, whether due to the small size of the loss area, persistent cloud cover, or other explanations still being identified through GFW validation efforts.

West Siberia is home to the world's largest expanse of peat lands — covering an area nearly the size of Texas.2, 3 These peat lands are interspersed with boreal forest, and both are typically underlain with permafrost (permanently frozen ground).

Brazil will restore 12 million hectares of forest by 2030, increasing the footprint of land reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by an area slightly larger than Pennsylvania or about the size of England.

Since 2005, the Amazon has experienced the two most severe droughts on record; in 2007, NASA satellite data shows that fires in southeast Amazonia burned 10 times more forest than in an average climate year — an area the size of a million soccer fields.

The Alberta government already has approved tar sands leases covering 92,000 square kilometres of Alberta's northern boreal forest, an area the size of Indiana or Hungary.

As early as 1958, pioneer ecologists were marking out areas of forest — usually a hectare in size — and returning every few years to record the size, number and species of the trees found there.

Looking just at tropical forests, this would save an area the same size as Spain, along with a similar amount of temperate forests and more than twice that area of grasslands.

The researchers incorporated indirect deforestation from mining, including infrastructure built to support mineral extraction and transport, into their estimates, concluding that 11,670 square kilometers (4,500 square miles), an area twice the size of the state of Delaware, of forest loss was attributable to mining during that period.

In order to provide a comprehensive view of family forestland, Forests in Focus will aggregate data from multiple sources, including from the US Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (FIA), which includes status and trends in forest area and location; in the species, size, and health of trees; in total tree growth, mortality, and removals by harvest; andForest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (FIA), which includes status and trends in forest area and location; in the species, size, and health of trees; in total tree growth, mortality, and removals by harvest; andForest Inventory and Analysis Program (FIA), which includes status and trends in forest area and location; in the species, size, and health of trees; in total tree growth, mortality, and removals by harvest; andforest area and location; in the species, size, and health of trees; in total tree growth, mortality, and removals by harvest; and more.

Liberia's forests encompass 11.8 million acres, an area twice the size of Vermont, and include the last remaining closed - canopy tropical rainforest in the Upper Guinea Forests of West forests encompass 11.8 million acres, an area twice the size of Vermont, and include the last remaining closed - canopy tropical rainforest in the Upper Guinea Forests of West Forests of West Africa.

Logging to Stop Immediately on Area the Size of MontanaIn a historic agreement, 20 major timber companies and 9 environmental groups agreed on a plan to protect 170 million acres of boreal forest in Canada.

The size of the property adequately ensures complete representations of habitats and ecological processes and the total area protected is larger than any other legally protected, single forest conservation area in mainland Southeast Asia.

Not only that, but a small percentage repeated year after year after year, over decades and decades, adds up to a very large amount: «The FAO report estimates that 129 million hectares of forest have been lost since 1990 - that amounts to an area roughly equivalent to the size of Peru,» writes DW.

An additional 150 million hectares of forest lands have been granted protected status since 1990, and during that same period, area that were already protected have grown in size by around 200 million hectares.

On average 13 million hectares of tropical forests (an area the size of Greece) are disappearing annually.

According to the three founders of Trump Forest, the total number of trees that would need to be planted is in the neighborhood of 10 billion, which is a daunting number, to say the least, and which would cover an area about the size of Kentucky, or some 37,000 square miles, if planted all in one location.

First, protected areas matter: the bigger the forest they live in, the higher the number and diversity of species, body sizes and diet types.

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.