Sentences with phrase «from clearcut»

Logs from clearcut Bikam Forest Reserve, which will be turned into an oil palm plantation.

Although nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have worked for years to protect forests from clearcutting, sustainable forestry is now seen as another way to protect forests.

Sustainable forestry depends on shifting from clearcutting to selective cutting of mature trees while maintaining the social and economic benefits enjoyed by forest inhabitants and other stakeholders.

Not exact matches

Tree stumps are recovered from one in every ten clearcutting areas, totalling some 10,000 - 20,000 hectares annually, which is, at its highest, equivalent to an area the size of Helsinki.

The campaign marked a sharp change from the 1970s, when the federal government, then a military dictatorship, had encouraged clearcutting.

The new study, led by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and published in Global Change Biology, quantifies the reductions in climate pollution from the degradation and clearcutting of forests.

As I mentioned yesterday there was major clearcutting, about 8 acres, done 25 feet from my property line.

[Response: An important point to clarify here is that the reason the sink will diminish is that whatever carbon does sink exist in the US is from forest regrowth, following the 16th — early 20th century clearcutting of New England.

My goal in creating the image (a larger version is here) was to distinguish elements in the science pointing to greenhouse - driven climate change that are clearcut from those surrounded by deep and enduring uncertainty.

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