Sentences with phrase «forest plantation»

In eastern Canada, the average hectare of forest plantation produces 4 cubic meters of wood per year.

If the new forest plantation is composed by different or fewer tree species, it will most likely store less carbon than the original forest.

Gitgit waterfall is an amazing waterfall from height hill which is encircled by fertile rain forest plantation.

Git Git Waterfall is an amazing waterfall from height hill which is encircled by fertile rain forest plantation.

Visitors to the X - Tremos Cables make a circuit of about 1300 meters long with 8 cruises ranging from 90 to 320 meters long and waterfalls, canyons, valley and forest plantation.

«Even in forest plantation landscapes they rely heavily on patches of natural forest for food resources and nesting sites.»

The newly approved project is targeted to help reverse the trend by restoring and expanding an existing Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified 5,000 hectares forest plantation to nearly 12,000 hectares sustainable commercial forest plantation made up of 10 percent indigenous tree species and 90 percent teak.

The project is designed to have a significant transformational impact on the Ghana forest plantation sector by supporting a new business model that will serve as an example to other investors, producing wood products which have the quality and sustainability stamp that will help meet increasing market demand while avoiding pressure on natural reserve forests.

Ghana has received approval for $ 24 million for the first - of - a-kind Private - Public Partnership project to restore degraded forest reserves and double a sustainable forest plantation.

Founded in 1994, Sino - Forest claimed to be one of the largest commercial forest plantation operators in China.

Sino - Forest Corporation is the leading commercial forest plantations operator in China and recently expanded its wood products engineering and research in Guangzhou and Jiangsu.

Akeredolu, stated this at the inauguration ceremony of the planting of teak / gmelina seedlings by the West Africa Forest Plantations Limited at the Ondo State Afforestation Project, Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state.

«But, sometimes in February 2017, we heard the news that the said OA1 Oluwa Forest Reserve had been concessioned to West Africa Forest Plantations Limited by the Ondo State Government under the Administration of Dr. Olusegun Mimiko following the Memorandum / Agreement dated 22nd of February, 2017 which was the eve of the end of its tenure

And drainage ditches on forest plantations ensure that water often runs into streams killing fish before soils neutralise it.

Similar claims have been made for the practice of forest plantations as a whole, which remains controversial despite its ubiquity in the South, and little data exists to verify the claims.

Negotiations on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries (REDD) ended in dramatic disarray at the most recent talks in Bangkok three weeks ago after a key provision - safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations - vanished from the negotiating text on the final Thursday of the session.

Since 2002, the company has achieved FSC certification through the Rainforest Alliance, demonstrating its commitment to the environment and the community by working in the best possible way in its forest plantations.

The certified forest plantations are poplar, a species used to make products such as ice cream sticks, cutlery, paint pallets, matches, and other products that are manufactured in the company's factory.

Forest plantations can reduce pressures on the earth's remaining forests as long as they do not replace old - growth forest.

As of 2005, the world had 205 million hectares in forest plantations, an area equal to nearly one third of the 700 million hectares planted in grain.

This will be essential to distinguish sustainable and ethical options from the rest: for example, within BECCS, forest plantations that displace indigenous peoples to supply biomass power are unethical, yet adding carbon capture to existing pulp and paper production might be sustainable.

Forestry residues and wood from forest plantations are other potential feedstocks.

In addition, technological developments are expected to increase future interest in more efficient «second generation» liquid biofuels, which are not derived from food crops, but from plant materials such as agricultural residues, forestry residues, and wood from forest plantations.

Clear and consistent policies, laws and best practice guidelines can help to balance the cultural, economic and environmental trade - offs caused by increased investment in forest plantations (FAO, 2007a).

When forest plantations have to be fertilised in order to maximise growth and minimise the time before return on expenditure, there is little point in fertilising trees that have essentially reached their near - final size.

This model assumes that the CO2 sequestered by immature woodlands and forest plantations full of saplings is instantaneously equal (that is to say, without a 35 - to 50 - year deficit) to the centuries of carbon captured by the old - growth trees of a mature forest.

Forest plantations now cover more than 187 million hectares, less than 5 percent of total forested area, but account for 20 percent of current world wood production.

Not exact matches

Shares in Sino - Forest, a TSX - listed company that operates forestry plantations in China, have plummeted 68 % since a research firm issued an extensive report on Thursday accusing the company of committing a fraud of «stratospheric» proportions.

Before Washington, DC became the capital city of the United States, it was a sprawling, 100 - square - mile plot of plantations, forests, and hills.

Sino - Forest manages tree plantations in China, sells logs and standing timber and manufactured engineered - wood products.

Thousands of hectares of tropical forests in Latin America were converted into vast Gros Michel plantations.

The replacement of natural forests with plantations of new, fast - growing trees helps to provide timber and paper but speeds up other losses.

As a result, the vast area of tropical forests has been destroyed to develop huge plantation of corn, tapioca, cotton and other commercial products.

One study suggests arthropod diversity alone — wasps, beetles, spiders, ants — found on a single tree species in shade - grown coffee plantations approximates that found under similar conditions in undisturbed tropical forest.

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.

Our certifications verify the palm plantations we source from are not developed by removing rain forests, but by converting pre-existing agricultural land to palm oil production.

If this conversion occurs, will robusta be grown under shade, or will shaded arabica coffee plantations or forests be replaced by robusta grown in sun monocultures?

That's because valuable forests are often destroyed to plant palm oil plantations, destroying the habitats of countless species while also threatening the well being and livelihoods of communities that depend on the forest and contributing to climate change.

This paper looked at the diversity and abundance of frogs and salamanders in an area of tropical montane cloud forest, shade coffee farms, and corn plantations in southern Mexico.

These natural forests in Wisconsin are a healthy mix of many species of trees, unlike huge commercial maple plantations that are often planted in former wheat fields.

monoculture plantation forests of GM trees to industrially produce biochar for carbon sequestration; and

Farms located in areas where the original natural vegetative cover is forest must establish and maintain, as part of the conservation program, permanent shade distributed homogenously throughout the plantations; the shade must meet the following requirements:

By maintaining abundant forest cover in shade coffee plantations, they can function as buffer zones and can form the backbone to the biological corridor linking the two national parks and other forest fragments.

Ecological research already carried out in these national parks and surrounding coffee plantations has shown the presence of more than 300 species of birds, (including endemic species, threatened forest specialists and birds of prey e.g. Black Hawk - Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus), 31 mammals species (some of them are endangered species such as the ocelot, cacomistle and Mexican porcupine), 26 reptile species, and 326 tree and bush species.

In general, the palm oil industry has been linked to deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses as the land and forests must be cleared for development of plantations.

There are four types of production systems in Ethiopia: forest coffee, semi-forest coffee, garden coffee and plantation coffee.

Brazilian forests, for example, are cleared and burned to make way for soya plantations.

Researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil have published a census of medium and large mammals found in 22 forest remnants surrounded by sugarcane plantations in the state.

A comparison of the performance of certified versus noncertified oil palm plantations over a 15 - year period showed that certification reduced the rate of deforestation by 33 % — a significant reduction, yet most of the certified areas already retained little residual forest.

If you have a cup of coffee, that means some rain forest in Colombia is being cut down to make coffee plantations.