Sentences with phrase «forest protection projects»

How great it would be if the private sector could create viable business models for forest protection projects that benefit all involved as well as the atmosphere.

Forest protection projects help to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, but healthy forests also preserve diverse ecosystems, and sustain healthy waterways for local people.

Not exact matches

These conservation projects have included returning salmon to rivers in Canada, otter protection in Denmark, bee recovery in the UK, and in Hong Kong Banrock Station has been proud to support the Mai Po Wetlands, while in the US it has supported American Forests» campaign to preserve the whitebark pine.

But if proposed protections are put in place, the study projects a much smaller area of forest would be lost — 41,650 square kilometers, over 113,000 square kilometers less than under the agricultural development scenario.

«Although the results of this study cause us a great deal of concern» said Ekwoge Abwe, coauthor of the study and manager of San Diego Zoo Global's Ebo Forest Research Project, «we are encouraged that it highlights the importance of the proposed Ebo National Park where we have been conducting a long - term and ongoing research and conservation program geared towards the protection of primate species and the reduction of the bushmeat practices that directly affect them.»

In contrast, the Ministry of Environment and Forests receives only 4.5 % more and funding for India's flagship species protection plan, The Project Tiger, will fall by $ 5 million, to $ 36 million.

This project will address these threats by adopting a holistic approach to the protection of marine life, seabirds and alluvial forest habitats.

The money the clients spend at lunch is put directly back into the community in order to complete projects such as: the Vilcanota river cleanup, environmental education, resident training, and assisting the continued reforestation and protection process of the Qeunua relict forest.

Other threats to forest protection from infrastructure and mining projects are marked by secretive decision - making and a lack of consultation with affected communities.

COTAP's carbon offset projects, which counteract emissions through tree planting, agroforestry and forest protection, are all located in areas where income levels are less than $ 2 per day, and are certified under Plan Vivo, the world's longest - standing voluntary standard for forest carbon.

Offset buyers strongly supported forest projects that deliver benefits beyond carbon sequestration, such as alternative local livelihoods and habitat protection for threatened species.

«Thanks to successful reductions in our carbon emissions and offsetting through forest and climate protection projects in Kenya, Indonesia, and India, Allianz has been operating on a carbon - neutral basis since 2012.»

-- Concerned citizens, corporations, and sub-national governments voluntarily purchased carbon offsets from projects that reduce emissions through forest protection, renewable energy, and other means;

(Sec. 5006) Amends the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 to direct the Secretary to enter into agreements with Indian tribes, for each of FY2014 - FY2018, to execute demonstration projects that promote biomass energy production on Indian forest land and in nearby communities by providing tribes with reliable supplies of woody biomass from federal Forest Protection Act of 2004 to direct the Secretary to enter into agreements with Indian tribes, for each of FY2014 - FY2018, to execute demonstration projects that promote biomass energy production on Indian forest land and in nearby communities by providing tribes with reliable supplies of woody biomass from federal forest land and in nearby communities by providing tribes with reliable supplies of woody biomass from federal lands.

Information about the «wild lands / bio diversity» bill HR 652 — To make the Wildlands Project into official government policy — the politically correct name is National Forest Ecosystem Protection Program.

Some of that money is starting to flow to indigenous people, whose activities might not deliver the kind of immediately measurable forest protection that a carbon project would require, but the state believes they're contributing to the overall health of forests — and will thus help reduce deforestation over the long term.

The proposed legislation would underwrite extensive infrastructure projects, grant legal title for illegally deforested Amazon land, and scale back environmental protections for forest reserves on private land.

Summary: Brazil's Amazon Fund to reduce deforestation distributes $ 40M to 5 NGOs Projects focus on monitoring, environmentally - responsible land use, forest protection, and payments for avoiding deforestation 20 % of Amazon Fund...

The project assures the continuation of ongoing activities for forest protection plus the following actions:

As news of the project has leaked out, it has triggered protests from environmental groups in the United States, Europe and Japan, who clamor for the protection of South America's great equatorial rain forest because it anchors fragile soil, holds at least half of the earth's animal and plant species and plays a vital role in world climate.

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