Sentences with phrase «forests covered»

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Forests covered between 45 and 60 percent of Earth's land surface.

Tropical forests covered most of the globe, including Europe, and even Antarctica was covered with vegetation.

In a blind headlong rush to gain profit by any means these forces have already begun to obliterate animal species, forest cover, fish stocks, water reserves, land and air, and have engaged upon a satanically mindless pilfering of finite resources by vandalism of Mother Earth, and have raised gigantic questions over human survival prospects.

Individual leaders in the corporate world may be deeply concerned about species diversity, global warming, the pollution of the oceans, the loss of forest cover, and many other matters.

This is often abandoned after a few years because it is not really suitable for this purpose, but the destruction of forest cover and animal habitat has long - lasting consequences.

Global warming, the loss of forest cover, the decrease of bio-diversity, and many other things affect the entire planet.

Qingyuan County presently has 82.4 % forest cover.

The region's critical deforestation crisis is driven by population growth, unscrupulous timber extraction, and agricultural conversion — resulting in the loss of 9.3 percent of its forest cover from 2001 - 2009 alone.

The World Resources Institute compiles data from many other current databases, and places forest cover at only 6 % as of the year 2000, with a decline in natural forest cover for the years 1990 - 2000 at 46 %.

You've got other countries with very high forest cover like Papua New Guinea, Suriname, the Amazon region and the Congo Basin countries.

Through the project's greenhouse gas accounting, build local awareness about the value of maintaining and restoring forest cover, and improve the desirability of maintaining shade coffee over cattle ranching or other activities with a higher ecological impact.

Increase forest cover with native species in degraded areas, improve the climate resiliency of coffee plants as a result of restoring tree cover, and enhance habitat value in the coffee - growing landscape.

Building climate resilience among forest communities is an urgent imperative in Guatemala, a country that lost 17 percent of its forest cover between 1990 and 2005 alone and has since then lost an additional 321,000 acres (130,000 ha) per year, mainly due to agricultural conversion.

Nearly half of the world's original forest cover has already been destroyed.

«We will also be able to conduct ongoing monitoring to assess forest cover and examine the impacts of our work.»

Here is the current proposed criterion that deals with «shade» or forest cover, with explanations and clarifications given as footnotes.

Instead of suggesting removal of shade (or forest cover) or a greater reliance on and application of fungicides, a broader landscape and longer term sustainability view would perhaps suggest a more careful, even opposite, response.

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

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

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.

El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America, is facing serious problems of environmental degradation; in fact, only 2 percent of its original forest cover remains under natural conditions.

Seeing intact forest cover in so many areas and obvious interest in conservation on the part of Ecuador.

The forest cover is largely dominated by native oaks, although scattered white pines are present in the eastern portions of the wildlife sanctuary.

The reforestation programme that we have started should help to regenerate our forest cover and water bodies, and, hopefully, provide an attractive alternative employment to galamsey.

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.»

Civil society organizations and the media recently joined the government to launch series of campaigns against illegal mining which is causing havoc to livelihoods and property as well as Ghana's water bodies and forest covers.

According to Marco Albani, Director of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, the campaign against deforestation of Africa's remaining forest cover requires time and resources.

The phenomenon attracted all manner of people into the country, including Chinese, Malians, Russians and Ukrainians who invaded the country's forest reserves destroying the forest cover and polluted the major rivers.

By layering more than 650,000 satellite images onto a Google map, researchers have created a new tool to track forest cover.

«For example, the law requires the conservation of a 30 - meter strip of forest cover along both banks of any river, but this is not being enforced in most cases,» she said.

Forest cover in Borneo may have declined by up to 30 % over the past 40 years, according to a study published July 16, 2014 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by David Gaveau from the Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia, and colleagues.

Unless urgent action is taken to stem deforestation in key areas that are heading towards or have just dipped below the forest cover «threshold» — which, according to the research team's models, amounts to a third of the Amazon — these areas will suffer the loss of between 31 - 44 % of species by just 2030.

They then divided the region into 1,223 squares of 10,000 km, and selected 31 squares representative of the spectrum of forest cover across the region (12 - 90 % cover).

They found a cut - off, conservatively given as 43 % forest cover, below which the squares held «markedly fewer species,» with up to eight key species lost for every 10 % of further deforestation beyond this threshold.

PAs were only areas in region with almost complete forest cover.

This is until the threshold of 43 % of forest cover is reached, beyond which the rate of biodiversity loss jumps from between two to up to eight major species gone per 10 % of disappeared forest.

While current Brazilian law requires individual landowners in the Amazon to retain 80 % forest cover, this is rarely achieved or enforced.

Less forest cover can also change how much sunlight is absorbed in the Northern versus the Southern hemispheres, which can shift tropical rain bands and other climate features.

Encroaching agriculture — from beef to soya production — to feed a growing and more affluent human population means that, at the current rates, the number of 10,000 km2 landscapes in the Amazon that fall below the species loss threshold of 43 % forest cover will almost double by just 2030.

They found that a loss of just four percent of forest cover was associated with nearly 50 percent more malaria cases.

Many of these simulations show an association between forest cover and rainfall, but every model is different and makes different assumptions.

If a forest covers a snowy expanse, «that has a strong warming influence,» he notes, because of little cloud cover resulting from less efficiency in evaporating water.

That is about the amount of CO2 sequestered by 43 million trees growing for a decade — or roughly a new Nordic forest covering Scandinavia, according to Intel.

The team also discovered that while many people believe the region's fast - growing elephant population is a major driver of forest cover loss, there was little evidence for this in their analysis.

Based on predicted future losses of forest cover and the assumption that orangutans ultimately can not survive outside forest areas, the researchers predict that over 45,000 more orangutans will be lost over the next 35 years.

Quantifying the loss of native forest cover is important because, when it comes to conserving biodiversity, all trees are not equal.

Reliance on satellite data is blamed for overoptimistic estimates of the nation's forest cover

This phenomenon can be explained by the low quantities of organic matter returned to the soil without forest cover, as well as cultivation practices which favour carbon losses.

Until recently, says ecologist Peter Walsh of Princeton University in New Jersey, experts have believed that ape populations in Gabon and Congo, home to 80 % of the world's gorillas and most common chimps, were stable because these countries retain much of their original forest cover.