Sentences with phrase «forest cover loss»

Researchers today released a long - awaited tool that reveals the extent of forest cover loss and gain on a global scale.

Such projects also contribute toward reversing the trend of forest cover loss, improving wildlife corridors and creating additional recreation opportunities.

In Canada and Russia, wildfires were likely the biggest driver of forest cover loss in 2013, WRI reported.

Since the goal of the REDD + mechanism is to «slow, halt and reverse forest cover loss and the related emissions», countries that reduce emissions need to receive compensation for doing so.

The goals of the project are to expand areas under approved forest management plans by 1.02 M hectares and reduce annual forest cover losses from 8,700 hectares per year to 4,800 hectares per year.

A comparison of forest cover loss within and outside of the Mayangna's recognized territories reveals that their commitment to protect forests has been effective.

Changes in the extent of IFLs were identified within year 2000 IFL boundary using the global wall - to - wall Landsat image composite for year 2013 and the global forest cover loss dataset (Hansen et al., 2013).

The Deforestation Alert System (Sistema de Alerta de Desmatamento — SAD) is a monthly alert that monitors forest cover loss and forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon.

Citation: Margono, B. Primary forest cover loss in Indonesia over 2000 — 2012.

The results differ significantly from estimates published by the U.N. last year, which put forest cover loss at roughly 4.9 million hectares in Indonesia and 1.1 - 1.3 million hectares in Malaysia.

The continuation of severe fires in the tropics in 2017 — Brazil, Indonesia and Guatemala, for example — suggests the past 12 months will go down as another year of high forest cover loss.

The team also discovered that while many people believe the region's fast - growing elephant population is a major driver of forest cover loss, there was little evidence for this in their analysis.

It's not yet clear what caused Indonesia's forest cover losses to drop, WRI said, but the organization cited multiple factors that could be at play, such as a government moratorium on new licenses to businesses to convert forests, the decline of global palm oil prices and an upwelling of corporate «zero - deforestation» pledges.

Nigel Sizer, global director of WRI's Forests Program, said the nature of Canada's and Russia's forest cover loss is different from much of the deforestation in the tropics because the land isn't being converted to cropland, so the trees will grow back at some point.

The project aligns well with the Montreal Land Use and Development Plan which has a goal of reversing the trend of forest cover loss and achieving 30 % forest cover for the territory.

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.

(11/14/2013) Researchers today released a long - awaited tool that reveals the extent of forest cover loss and gain on a global scale.