Sentences with phrase «forest encroachment»

(04/28/2014) An Indonesian has won the world's most prestigious award for environmental activism for his efforts to fight illegal logging, forest encroachment for palm oil production, and a policy that would open up vast swathes of an endangered ecosystem for mining and industrial plantations.

'' [Farmers] can stop forest encroachment and even expand the forest cover.

They can stop forest encroachment and even expand the forest cover.

Not exact matches

City planning should make ample provision for parks and trees, and federal and state parks and forests should be steadfastly maintained against all encroachments by commercial and utilitarian interests.

Earlier this year, STRI research associate William Laurance published a paper in Science, stressing the importance of considering wildlife conservation during transportation infrastructure planning, because it is well known in the conservation community that roads «can unleash a Pandora's box of environmental ills, such as land encroachment, wildlife poaching, forest fragmentation, exotic species invasions and illegal mining.»

Published Aug. 25 in the online journal PLOS ONE, the study explores options for mitigating the impact of human encroachment on five predators who cling to survival in isolated pockets of protected forest surrounded by a mosaic of roadways, unprotected forest, plantations and pastures.

There is strong anthropogenic pressure on the Tapanuli orangutan due to conversion of pristine forest for mining, plans to build a hydro - electric dam, hunting, and general human encroachment.

This evening, beginning with Earth, Wind & Fire at 7 / 6C, the Documentary Channel will be airing five consecutive hours of documentaries that deal with alternative power sources; the effect of pollution on nature; the encroachment of development on the Amazonian rain forest, and the possibility of demand exceeding production of «cheap oil.»

The encroachment of the forest animals and the efforts of the Verminator in «Over the Hedge» don't approach the wit and genius of a similar situation in the Academy Award - winning «Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were - Rabbit» (2005), but then how could they?

On film, it occasionally manifests itself in period pieces that focus on the encroachment and proliferation of the railroad: its engines (as in King Vidor's Duel in the Sun and Beyond the Forest, or the Hughes Brothers» From Hell) the manifestation of the industrial revolution in terms of hellmouths and serpents — William Blake's «Tyger» burning bright in the forests of a primordial night, all - consuming and inexorable.

«Encroachment into mangrove forests, which used to serve as a buffer between the rising tide, between big waves and storms and residential areas; all those lands have been destroyed,» the AFP news agency reported him as saying.

After this attempt failed, thousands of colonists encroached on the communities» forests — encroachments that continue to this day.

A Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) report suggested a number of mitigation actions to improve the situation, which include stopping encroachment in the remaining forest covers, keeping elephant corridors intact, creating alternative livelihoods for people in the affected area, better enforcement of laws and better litigation, and providing technical support to and creating awareness among locals.

Working with local stakeholders, the project is ensuring local communities appreciate the value of the standing forest and can develop sustainable livelihoods on agricultural land and unprotected areas, reducing illegal encroachment into the newly formed Park.

It states that there is growing evidence that climate change significantly exacerbates other major human - induced pressures such as encroachment, deforestation, forest degradation, land - use change, pollution and overexploitation of wildlife resources.

There has also been encroachment on protected areas such as forest reserves.

Illegal encroachment, grazing and drought have ravaged the Country's forests, threatening water supply as the main water towers face eminent danger from not only illegal logging, but also invasion by livestock herds.

Grasslands are also under threat from cultivation for biofuel crops, from subsidized carbon credit forests, and from the remorseless encroachment of fire - prone government reserves and pest havens.

Grasslands are also under threat from cultivation for biofuel crops, from subsidised carbon credit forests and from the remorseless encroachment of fire - prone government reserves and pest havens.

Encroachment is reducing the forest cover by 0.9 percent each year.

Pollution and human encroachment may be a great threat elsewhere, but forests are suffering more from wind, bark beetles and wildfire.