Sentences with phrase «forest land area»

The biggest savings are achieved at the beginning of the production chain due to the reduced use of fresh wood, which in turn reduces the required forest land area.

In order to account for the characteristic features of cascading use, wood researcher Michael Risse applied the holistic life cycle approach and analyzed the exergy of all materials used, the internal recycling processes, and the consumption of other primary resources, such as the forest land areas required.

Not exact matches

«The measure will accelerate the arrival of infrastructure and people for mining activities in areas of native forest, reproducing in the region the same lack of governance that permits the advance of deforestation and land grabs (elsewhere) in the Amazon,» Greenpeace said in a report by Reuters.

In practice, this meant more public land was set aside for conservation purposes and, in the areas still open to logging, cut blocks — those strategically shorn sections of forest seen in aerial photos — grew smaller.

This is being done on a large scale in South Korea and China, where enormous areas of land have been denuded of forests.

But now, according to Suzanne Nelson, the reserve project's director, the designation is official and it is the first botanical area to be so designated on National Forest land.

With the aid of government agencies, large firms have been seizing swaths of land in forest areas that were traditionally under ancestral tenure and rapidly converting them to mono - crop rubber and oil palm plantations.

With 90 percent of the world's forests outside of protected areas, the Rainforest Alliance works to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend on them by transforming land - use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.

This number includes land area certified to the Forest Stewardship Council Standard (FSC).

The initiative envisages a range of sustainable land uses within the buffer zones and linking areas, including certified forest management and organic agriculture79.

This number includes land area certified to the Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Agriculture Standard and the Forest Stewardship Council Standard (FSC).

For the more daring enthusiasts, another 250 - plus miles of trails are waiting to be conquered with your off - highway vehicles in the Chappie - Shasta OHV Area, navigating through BLM land and the Shasta - Trinity National Forest.

However, one homeowner Rolfe Jaremus, who lives a mile away from the parcel, added up the park sites, forest preserves and private parks in the area, and concluded that instead of buying more land, the park district should install more drinking fountains in the existing parks and make sure the Community Center is always open.

St. Charles — Almost 200 acres of environmentally sensitive nature areas would be given to the Kane County Forest Preserve system in exchange for helping a local park district buy the land necessary to construct a multi-use athletic and recreation facility in western St. Charles Township.

But because city staff said the direction council members wanted them to take was unclear, the council asked for revisions to the weed control ordinance, which identifies designated natural landscape areas as land owned by the city, the Naperville Park District or forest preserve districts.

Roger Kotecki, vice chairman of the Forest Preserve District's Land Acquisition Committee, said the 4.9 - acre acquisition — along with the other land operated by the Glen Ellyn Park District — means there will be about 20 acres of open space in the area of St. Charles and Geneva RoLand Acquisition Committee, said the 4.9 - acre acquisition — along with the other land operated by the Glen Ellyn Park District — means there will be about 20 acres of open space in the area of St. Charles and Geneva Roland operated by the Glen Ellyn Park District — means there will be about 20 acres of open space in the area of St. Charles and Geneva Roads.

It lies within a mosaic of protected conservation lands that includes Ipswich River and several large state forest and park areas.

He said: «In continuation of the counter insurgency, the air component in the last one month conducted 286 operational sorties against terrorists» targets from 25 December to date in the Sambisa forest covering an area of 157,000 km2 which is equivalent to the total land mass of South Korea, Portugal and Togo in a total of 536 hours, 21 minutes were flown by various platforms engaged in the operations, «This translates into 316,637.5 litres of aviation fuel which amounts to N60.3 million, excluding the cost of maintenance and armament expended.»

Covering about 32,020 hectares of forest land, the Kalakpa Game Reserve traverses two traditional areas; Adaklu and Abutia, and it is home for wild animals such as buffaloes, antelopes, baboons and smaller mammals.

Lands purchased by the Virginia - based Conservation Fund includes forests next to Cherry Plain State Park and the Capital District Wildlife Management Area, which cover about 4,300 acres in the southern Rensselaer County town of Stephentown.

The state later bought most of the land from OSI for the state Forest Preserve, opening the area to the public.

Fracking would be banned in and around the city's watershed as well as within 500 feet of state aquifers and on state land, including parks, forests and wildlife areas — a significant reversal from its 2009 position.

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.

With over 80 percent of forests already degraded by human and industrial activities, today's findings underscore the immediate need for international policies to secure remaining intact forests — including establishing new protected areas, securing the land rights of indigenous peoples, regulating industry and hunting, and targeting restoration efforts and public finance.

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.

The DRC has proposed measures to preserve its forests under the U.N. - based Reducing Emissions From Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) system, including a suggestion to increase its area of protected land from 10 percent of the country to 15 percent.

«Our research at a ranch in Paragominas, Para, shows that while a tract of forest supports 53 ant species, the same area in grazing land has just 24 species.

She says greater measures must be taken to conserve the toppled timber forests so they are not converted to agricultural land, and to preserve enough of the original forests to provide seeds to repopulate the logged areas.

«Together with a 50 - hectare permanent plot in the Danum valley conservation area and the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, the SAFE project means that we can now study the entire gamut of land use in the region, from pristine forest to fragmented forest and restored forest, to oil palm plantation.

With the data they simulated 130 years of growth following the Yellowstone Fires using a computer model calibrated to the study area and used by forest and land managers around the U.S., called the Forest Vegetation Simuforest and land managers around the U.S., called the Forest Vegetation SimuForest Vegetation Simulator.

Before cutting down forest, land managers in drought prone areas might first consider the birds in the trees.

Hiking through the wilderness areas of the Dixie National Forest and Bureau of Land Management land, Hacker identified features showing that the Markagunt landslide was much bigger than previously knLand Management land, Hacker identified features showing that the Markagunt landslide was much bigger than previously knland, Hacker identified features showing that the Markagunt landslide was much bigger than previously known.

An area near Acre, Brazil, shows the progression of forest to grazing land on a large cattle ranch: intact forest (left), forest being burned to make pasture (top), newly cleared forest (bottom) and grass ready to graze (right).

The team also assessed 174 protected areas, finding that for every hectare of forest put into protection, an average 95 metric tons of carbon are stored on land, with even more carbon sequestered below the soil surface.

At the most fundamental level, the ecological footprint incorporates six measurements — city cover, carbon dioxide pollution, farm fields, fisheries, forests and rangeland — to reveal «the aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystem goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon waste.»

China's national protected area system has expanded greatly in recent years, but the areas are typically remote, at higher elevations and ineffectively managed, while sacred forests are closer to centers of human land use, at lower - elevations and managed effectively at the community level.

These results explain the difference between recent global estimates of forest «land use» area (3890 Mha) and the area with a «land cover,» the authors say.

Olam, however, denies the claim, insisting it will only put the plantation on «land that is classed as savannah mosaic, woody pioneer areas, logged or degraded forest that does not support significant conservation priorities,» and it is working with authorities to develop an ape management plan that aims to «safeguard ape populations wherever they are found.»

According to the MPOB, the government has committed to preserve 50 percent of Malaysia's total land area as forest.

Tropical and subtropical forests, with the greatest area of forested land, are home to 1.3 trillion trees, or 43 % of the total.

«Zoning of protected areas and forest conservation on private land, combined with subsidising farmers to increase yields on degraded pastures rather than create new ones, has seen deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon decline steeply since 2004 — although it's too early to say if this success will be sustained,» said co-author Dr Bernardo Strassburg of Brazil's International Institute for Sustainability.

As early as 2002, the Brazilian government reduced deforestation by establishing forest protected areas, and later companies agreed to moratoriums on buying soy or beef raised on deforested land.

For instance, very large forest areas are transformed into agricultural land in the Amazon region.

Had there been no Green Revolution, ecologists such as Jesse Ausubel, director of Rockefeller University's Program for the Human Environment, calculate that the world would have needed to cultivate an extra area of land almost twice that of South America, taking the needed farming land from forests and grasslands.

In the article, «The Natural and Social History of the Indigenous Lands and Protected Areas Corridor of the Xingu River Basin,» the authors cite original interviews with indigenous leaders who note significant changes in the forest's rainfall patterns, river levels, fires and agriculture cycles their groups have relied on for thousands of years.

The region also has vast areas of forest land that are converted each year to agricultural and other uses, making land use change and reduction of emissions resulting from deforestation a top priority for the region.

Forests cover 31 % of the land area on our planet.

In addition to pricing carbon, aggressive policies are needed in three key areas: energy efficiency, low carbon energy, and land - use, which includes forest conservation and agriculture.

«These species can spread across protected areas without the help of land use changes or other human activities, suggesting that traditional conservation approaches on the ground aren't enough for the long - term survival of Hawaii's rain forests.»

A medium deforestation rate, in which 53 percent of the forest is preserved (of the original 70 percent) and the remainder is used as agricultural land and for tea plantations, most closely approximates the ongoing expansion rate of agricultural areas in this Chinese region.