Sentences with phrase «intact forest»

An intact forest cycles nutrients, regulates climate, stabilizes soil, treats waste, provides habitat, and offers opportunities for recreation.

Intact Forest Landscapes: update and degradation from 2000 - 2013.

A leaked draft version of a European Commission report on implementation of EU sustainable biofuels plans would permit classification of palm oil plantations as intact forest, EU Observer reports.

(Intact forest landscapes were defined as areas larger than 500 square kilometers with no signs of human activity in Landsat imagery).

An international team of scientists led by Lan Qie, then at the University of Leeds, analyzed long - term measurements of 71 - hectare plots across the huge island, and discovered that over the past half century, Borneo's intact forest increased in biomass by an average of 430 kilograms per hectare per year.

A paper published in Science Advances assessed trends in intact forest landscapes (IFL), revealing that forest ecosystems greater than 500 square kilometers (190 square miles) in area and showing no signs of human impact declined more than 7 percent between 2000 and 2013.

Intact Forest Landscapes: update and reduction in extent from 2000 - 2013.

The tar sands deposits are located under the boreal forest, the second largest intact forest in the world and one of the largest sources of freshwater.

They said that fires never used to invade the humid, intact forest; but now, drier conditions are allowing fires to spread further and faster than ever before.

Altogether, at the beginning of the century, 65 countries could boast these intact forest landscapes.

The authors warn that the density of stored carbon in tropical climates was far greater in these intact forest landscapes than in the rest of the forest zone.

The planet's stock of natural wild woodland — the technical term is intact forest landscape — which protects biodiversity, stores carbon and manages the water supply, is dwindling.

And, the scientists warn, if this rate of loss continues, Paraguay, Laos, Cambodia and Equatorial Guinea will lose all their intact forest landscapes within the next 20 years.

Scientists from the US, Russia, Germany and Canada report in Science Advances that they used satellite data to monitor changes from 2000 to 2013 in intact forest landscape.

Canada retains the world's largest intact forest.

(05/14/2007) At a conference Monday, 1500 prominent scientists called for protection of Canada's boreal forest, one of the largest intact forest and wetland ecosystems remaining on the planet.

Forest types such as mangroves, Intact Forest Landscapes, primary forests, and carbon stocks can be found here.

Joint Submission by the Center for Carbon Removal, Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, Forest Trends, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Nature Conservancy, Rainforest Alliance, Wildlife Conservation Society, and the Woods Hole Research Center, regarding views on APA Item 6: Matters relating to the global stocktake referred to in Article 14 of the Paris Agreement: (a) identification of the sources of input for the global stocktake; and (b) development of the modalities of the global stocktake, in particular the role of the land sector and its potential for enhanced action, including Intact Forest Landscapes

Perhaps most important, experts must assess whether an intact forest deserves carbon credits.

From a scientific, economic and political perspective, REDD is a very complicated business that ratcheted up demand for the Rapid Response Team because many governments with critical and intact forest are now pursuing national or subnational level policies for REDD, often without the necessary tools, time and capacity.

To look at the broader benefits of carbon finance, it would be better to use total revenue rather than net income as well as incorporate some of the other ecosystem services afforded by intact forest.

The Amazon rainforest is the world's largest intact forest.

Zooming into a section splashed with blue amid the green of intact forest, he pointed out two hydro - power dams that have caused serious forest loss in Malaysian Borneo.

Canada's vast boreal forest is the world's largest intact forest ecosystem.

After losing 80 % of the world's natural and intact forest habitats, mostly to agriculture, few people stop to wonder how Earth can accommodate these additional demands upon plants» primary productivity and still produce food, preserve wild places and maintain ecosystems required to maintain a habitable Earth.

«A common explanation would be that more active shallow clouds over the deforested area were caused by the boundary layer turbulence, which is more intensive due to stronger surface heating over grassy surfaces than over dense intact forest,» he said.

An intact forest canopy serves a critical role by protecting the monarchs from both freezing cold during winter storms and from excessive warmth during the days.

Our paper suggests that we would be helped by having these intact forest landscapes well protected.»

It's one of the largest intact forest ecosystems left on Earth; it's actually only three or four places that have these large unfragmented habitats left and because of that it holds some of the largest populations of mammals and birds — some of the largest populations of wolves, for example, in, caribou as well as, we estimate one to three billion birds that nest there every year and that's some of the birds that are actually stopping off at Central Park.

«This is critical for the hundreds of species that we identified as being clearly dependent on intact forest core areas — that is forest which is at least 200 - 400m from the edge.

«These species were highly sensitive to the changing habitat and therefore more likely to disappear in landscapes that encompass only a small proportion of intact forest.»

With the help of data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Lian Pin Koh at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and David Wilcove of Princeton University found that more than half the palm plantations came at the expense of forests — largely pristine, intact forest...

The loss of intact forest cover in Myanmar has accelerated over the last decade, according to a study published May 17, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Peter Leimgruber from Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, United States of America; Ned Horning from American Museum of Natural History, United States of America; and colleagues.

If the vehicle for transport — an intact forest — is impaired, that's a different story.

An area near Acre, Brazil, shows the progression of forest to grazing land on a large cattle ranch: intact forest (left), forest being burned to make pasture (top), newly cleared forest (bottom) and grass ready to graze (right).

In Myanmar, 38 % of forest cover is intact forest and during the study period the authors found that this intact forest declined by 11 % (more than 2 million hectares) with an annual loss of 0.94 %.

«The unique species composition, high diversity and relatively intact forest structure underscore the importance of strengthening ongoing and future conservation measures at Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary, as a key element of wider conservation efforts in southern Thailand,» adds Dr. Strijk.

«We are exploring how climate change funding could be used to support our active efforts to keep deforestation rates low because intact forest ecosystems in Niassa support its outstanding and unique wildlife populations,» he said.

But a new study reveals that subsistence hunters from small communities in large areas of intact forest and with access to healthy fish stocks do not appear to be emptying their forests.

Small communities, living in large areas of intact forest and with access to healthy stocks of fish, do not appear to be emptying their forests.

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

That they are endangered in many places in Central America, but Belize has the healthiest population of jaguars in the region because Belize has so much intact forest; there is a habitat for them.

I have visited there, and they also have preserved large portions of intact forest.

However, Canada's old growth and intact forests are logged at a rate of five acres a minute, 24 hours a day.»

Indigenous culture: Intact forests enable many indigenous groups to sustain their traditional cultures and livelihoods.

With over 80 percent of forests already degraded by human and industrial activities, today's findings underscore the immediate need for international policies to secure remaining intact forests — including establishing new protected areas, securing the land rights of indigenous peoples, regulating industry and hunting, and targeting restoration efforts and public finance.

«Climate value of Earth's intact forests: Conservation efforts and the fight against climate change risk failure unless intact forests are preserved.»

Once opened up, formerly intact forests become increasingly susceptible to natural pressures such as disease, fires, and erosion; they become less resilient to human - made climate change, and they become more accessible to human use, driving a spiral of decline.

Supporting efforts that both restore and make degraded forests more productive while also conserving at - risk intact systems — rather than opening intact forests to activity.

Intact forests like this one in Madagascar represent our greatest protection against floods and storms.