Sentences with phrase «forest of the democratic republic»

LAST September, deep in the swamp forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nahoko Tokuyama of Kyoto University in Japan heard a scream.

That's more than all the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo combined, and it's based only on voluntary markets.

Not exact matches

The Democratic Republic of the Congo needs aggressive protections against foreign investors who want to turn the second - largest forest stock on Earth into farmland

The research team combined a satellite - based map of forest carbon from 2007 and 2008 with maps of indigenous territories compiled by organizations in Amazonia, Mesoamerica, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The killer strain is not limited to the Taï forest; Leendertz and others have linked wildlife deaths to B. cereus in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Historically, the enormous Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) would have held the largest number of forest elephants.

If measures proposed by the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect its tropical forests are not enacted, it could result in a significant uptick in the nation's deforestation rate, according to a recent study.

In the study, researchers compared the imitative behavior of 77 typically developing 3 - to 5 - year - olds in the United Kingdom with that of 46 untrained bonobos living in naturalistic forest enclosures in Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

However, the team also found that forests had actually expanded in Central African countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Central African Republic.

According to a paper published this week in the biogeography journal Diversity and Distributions, the areas that underwent the greatest habitat loss were found in the centre and east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Equatorial Africa and the upper Guinean forest in Liberia.

The study — the largest ever conducted on the African forest elephant — includes the work of more than 60 scientists between 2002 and 2011, and an immense effort by national conservation staff who spent a combined 91,600 days surveying elephants in 5 countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo), walking over 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) and recording over 11,000 elephant dung piles for the analysis.

During the earlier years, 1996 - 2005, most forest elephant ivory Wasser analyzed was assigned to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, but none of the forest elephant samples after 2005 came from that area.

Wild bonobos are found in the forests of central Africa, south of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Forests in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) cover about 40 percent of the country, the highest percentage in Southeast Asia.

The committee's 96 members voted on the works selected to bring into the collection, including «I'll Bend But I Will Not Break» (1998) by Betye Saar, Julie Mehretu's «Epigraph, Damascus» (2016); «Forest Spirit Figure,» a monumental 19th century sculptural figure from Nigeria; and a collection of 29 ceremonial barkcloth paintings made in the 20th century by the Mbuti people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Local communities, Democratic Republic of Congo government representatives, WWF, and others met earlier this year to discuss plans for a forest conservation program in Maï - Ndombe.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also high on the list, is considered a failing state, making forest management there particularly difficult.

Loss of forest, woodland, and savanna increased sharply in Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Bolivia during the second quarter of 2013, reports a new assessment by...

The recently - elected parliament of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the new government, should make wide - ranging changes to how mineral, oil and forest resources are managed, said Global Witness in a new briefing published today.

At its most basic level, REDD + enables rich, industrialized countries such as Norway, Germany and the United Kingdom to pay forested tropical countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Peru and others to keep their rain forests standing, rather than log them to make way for cattle ranches or other agricultural purposes.

«Democratic Republic of the Congo primary forests».

As such, the country has been seen by forest giants like Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as donor nations like Norway seeking to reduce deforestation and associated emissions, as a model to potentially emulate.

While much of that «loss» — which includes all tree cover loss, ranging from deforestation to harvesting of plantations to instances where blocks of forests have lost all their leaves from, for example, fire and beetle infestation — occurred outside the tropics, Brazil, Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malaysia, Bolivia and Laos made the top 10 list for 2016 in terms of loss of dense tree cover.

Its area of forest loss ranked ninth after Russia, Brazil, the United States, Canada, Indonesia, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Australia.

This technical document shows substantial benefits of forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which also faces the issue of deforestation.

Only found in a tiny sliver of forest around a shared border between Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the scant 720 Mountain Gorillas left in the world live in vastly uncertain conditions.

BONN, Germany — A few weeks ago, international scientists, government officials and forest advocates visiting a remote community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed the presence of...

And, according to the Ecosystem Climate Alliance, when it comes to aspects of the REDD forest protection scheme the European Union is actively blocking protecting intact forests from being converted to plantations: The ECA says the blocking by the EU — with the support of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Equitorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo — of language to prevent forest - to - plantation conversions essentially means that «industrial - scale logging and replacement of tropical forests with pulp or palm oil plantations could be funded by money intended to help developing countries reduce the 25 % of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, forest degradation and peatland destruction.»

Sudan, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo account for half of Africa's forest loss.