Sentences with phrase «forests where»

Illegal logging in the Mexican forests where they spend the winter, new climate patterns and the disappearance of milkweed — the only plant on which monarchs lay their eggs and on which their caterpillars feed — are being blamed for their shrinking numbers.

Actually, what the isotopes tell us is that there was an increase in the amount of biological carbon through the deglaciation, not a decrease, about 500 Gton C as organic matter, explainable as growth of forests where the ice sheets used to be.

Carbon offsets from forestry may be created through a variety of strategies including: avoided deforestation and permanent land conservation, reforestation and replanting activities and improved forest management and stewardship in working forests where harvesting occurs.

It maintains that in the real «working» forests where it gets its timber, there is a constant cycle of cutting and planting trees.

«The fires are burning in plantation forests where they may have been set purposely in rotation as a method of boosting crop production on oil palm plantations and timber plantations — a practice known as swidden — or slash - and - burn agriculture,» writes CIFOR's Julie Mollins in a blog post.

The effect on the wind would be something like planting extensive forests where before there was bare ground.

«However, only one experimental study — a large liana removal experiment in Panama, has proven lower carbon uptake in forest with lianas versus forests where lianas have been removed.»

In collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and local contractors, we've closed roads and created safer forests where rural communities interface with wildlands.

This is much harder to measure than in undisturbed forests — these are trees in diverse small to large patches in abandoned agricultural lands intermingled with human settlements and are surely growing differently than trees in undisturbed forests or in the experimental planted and regrowing forests where carbon sink strength has been measured using precise methods.

To refine this study to specific sites and a specific tree species, soil characteristics between two areas in Montana were then compared to seek possible differences among ponderosa pine forests where tree mortality was recorded between 1998 and 2010.

The pipeline also crosses recreation, federal public lands, state parks and forests where thousands of workers are employed in the tourism sector.

Recent research from WRI and the Rights and Resources Initiative found that legally recognized and protected community forests have lower rates of deforestation than forests where community rights are insecure.

The agreement further provides for a community service payment of $ 50,000 to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to be used to promote the conservation, identification and propagation of protected tree species used in the musical instrument industry and the forests where those species are found.

Marattiaceae are found in tropical or subtropical forests where the temperature and air humidity remain high throughout the year.

See also my post # 388 that talks about recent findings of stunted growth in tropical forests where the temperature has increased by jut one degree C.

Sierra Pacific Industries, a family - owned lumber company based in Anderson, California, partnered with several environmental, academic and government organizations to better understand fisher habitat, restore the species to forests where they've been lost and help them expand into new areas.

More likely though, we are creating the ideal conditions by expanding our range into dense tropical rain forests where we are clear felling them (approximately 1000 square meters per second) for human agriculture use.

Instead, he devoted considerable time to German mythology, exploring the forests where Germanic barbarian tribes had battled with Roman legions and which were themselves a constant source of mystery and stimulation.

There are a few monsters you can fight here, plus some forests where you can catch a Chocobo to ride.

Pikaia Lodge is near beautiful sandy beaches and endemic forests where you can see giant tortoises on your morning walk.

Kayaks and canoes get you inside caves, down rivers, around lagoons and through forests where waterfalls await.

Transport from Puerto Varas will take you into the Patagonian forests where you will find wild rivers full of a variety of fish.

The vegetation changes to dry coastal forests where you will have a good chance of seeing echidnas and king parrots.

We source the best quality, sustainable materials from all over Europe and our wood interior's are sourced from organically cultivated forests where tree depletion is avoided and is especially made for motorhomes.

Hacienda Pinilla topography is the perfect combination of plains, mountains, beaches, rivers and forests where you will likely find rare species of birds, monkeys, water fowl and the seasonal nesting of the giant leatherback turtles.

Scorpion Beach, on the eastern part of the island, offers swimmable (cold) water and expansive kelp forests where snorkelers can spot an array of sea life.

Scorpion Beach, on the eastern shore, offers clear, swimmable waters, and sprawling kelp forests where divers and snorkelers can spot feeding dolphins, porpoises, and whales.

This ride is cultural and natural journey through rural neighborhoods, farms and semi-arid forests where you will witness abundant flora and fauna before arriving at the La Florida waterfall where you can enjoy fresh fruit and water provided by your guide, swim and explore the breathtaking surroundings before the return ride.

Hike through tropical forests where exotic birds flit in blurs of vivid color.

On the other hand, if you know your way around saddles, bridles and reins, guides will take you on the ride your life, over paths that wind around jungles and rain forests where plants, flowers, trees, birds and perhaps a curious member of Belize's wildlife community will welcome you to their world.

Near Azrou visit the cedar forests where colonies of Barbary Apes will keep you amused.

Drive along country roads through tropical forests where you can spot monkeys, birds and other wildlife.

There are no cars here, and this fishing village is reached by taking a longtail boat through the mangrove forests where wooden houses on stilts perch over the water.

It is the greenest and most mountainous of the Bay Islands, with much of the landscape cloaked in forests where hiking trails lead to secluded beaches, freshwater springs and waterfalls that cascade from the slopes.

This tour explores three different blue holes, and also takes you into lush coppice forests where orchids and bromeliads are abundant.

Lak Lam Ru is a 125 - square - kilometre stretch of tropical jungles and forests where you can find waterfalls and other interesting trails where you can spot various types of wildlife.

National police have intensified a crackdown begun two years ago on the dog trade, setting up sting operations in the forests where dogs are slaughtered and shipped, often to Vietnam and China, where dog eating is more prevalent.

Forests where nearly 300 species of trees grew, including maples, camphor, metasequoia and...

We have state forests where I live in upstate NY, and you can drive through them.

To get there, accompanied by several expendable stalwarts, the men must traverse sheer - walled gorges and ravines and forests where wolves are so plentiful that you'd think the knights stumbled into a «Twilight» convention.

The nascent technology of iron smelting allows for the development of firearms, but also means that forests are felled to fuel the process — forests where the ancient gods still live.

With the help of second unit director Yakima Canutt, the legendary stunt man and stunt coordinator who helmed the chariot race on Ben - Hur, Mann stages his own chariot battle, this one through the German forests where Commodus and Livius careen down a winding path and tip precariously on the edge of a cliff.

During the same time period, two Jewish brothers escape into the Belarussian forests where they attempt to survive and help others who join them there, in the movie Defiance.

I like nature the sea, the mountains, the forests where you can forget about everything.

Humans evolved, not in the forests where fruit was available, but in open woodlands where tubers and other tasteless starch sources were abundant but fruit rare.

At present, human cases — estimated as tens of thousands of cases per year — are in people who live in close proximity to the «sylvatic cycle» in forests where monkeys are present.

Stand condition is particularly important on state and federal forests where a policy of fire suppression for the last 100 yr has increased tree density and the risk of mortality from defoliating and boring insects, and from wildfire.

Both mean fire weather season length and long fire weather season affected area, constrained to only boreal forests where most Canadian fires occur, were only weakly correlated to burned area across Canadian forests (ρ = 0.3 and 0.324, respectively, P < 0.1)(Table 4 and Supplementary Fig. 5).

Farther inland, he trekked through arid forests where giant jumping rats surfaced among baobabs — odd, upside - down trees with wide bases and pointed tops — as well as through a sandless desert landscape speckled with thorny armored bushes with thick, fleshy leaves that harbored hissing cockroaches.

Sarah Tishkoff, center, with Pygmy women Pygmy populations, scientists have speculated, may owe their abbreviated stature to natural selection pressures that allowed them to better adapt to dense tropical forests where heat is oppressive and food is scarce.