Sentences with phrase «land and forests»

But the world's land and forests are already past their carrying capacity, and terrestrial ecosystems, upon which all life depends, are crashing.

«The World Bank, northern countries and big international NGOs, under the eyes of the United Nations, are creating carbon cowboys that trample over the rights of indigenous peoples, our land and our forests,» said Tom Goldtooth, director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, an international organizational working with indigenous peoples of the world.

Hundreds of acres of active agricultural land and forests will be flooded, as well as 30 architecturally and / or archeologically significant sites.

To do this, Gold Standard designs the strongest processes that maximize the impact of efforts to deliver clean energy and water, responsibly manage land and forests, and transform the lives of the world's poor.

The researchers say capturing more carbon in land and forests is no substitute for eliminating the world's dependence on fossil fuels, which it is consuming so prodigally that the consequent rise in greenhouse gas levels is driving global warming.

Over the years, GBM and our founder, Professor Wangari Maathai, became internationally known for our advocacy campaigns to preserve public land and forests including Uhuru Park, Karura Forest, and Jeevanjee Gardens.

GBM and Prof. Maathai campaigned against political and economic mismanagement, especially of public land and forests, and advocated for greater democratic space, accountability and integrity from political leaders at all levels.

The palm oil industry in SE Asia is linked to major issues such as deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses in the SE Asia, as the land and forests must be cleared for the development of the oil palm plantations.

We think that there are few explanations, but a strong one is that because the Amazon is more fragmented, there are more edges between the deforested land and forests.

He is idiotically polluting the air and waters, engrossing the land and forests, and creating misery in his ceaseless, selfish accumulation and wars of drones.

In general, the palm oil industry has been linked to deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses as the land and forests must be cleared for development of plantations.

He calls attention, as experts increasingly are doing, to the deterioration of the world's resources in arable land and forests and to the pollution of air and water by pesticides and waste products.

Apart from their activities of grazing their cattle on farm land and forest reserves, the herdsmen are also alleged to be into all sorts of crimes including armed robbery, rape, Stealing, burning of farms and worst of it all, killing of farmers».

Our members police and protect New York State's public universities and colleges; state parks and historic sites; and they enforce state laws and protect our lands and forests and ensure environmental safety and quality throughout the state.

Turner and Raffa say land and forest managers may want to consider promoting and maintaining this natural variability to help protect forests from bark beetle outbreaks.

Coyotes are a big problem here, and I live where there is open land and forest.

All ready: A helicopter prepared by the West Kalimantan administration is ready to carry out water bombing operations to anticipate a haze disaster from land and forest fires in the upcoming dry season.

The Riau Land and Forest Fire (Karhutla) task force has arrested a suspected land burner in Meranti Island regency.

A climatology station in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, has predicted high land and forest fire potentia...

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has warned of an increasing risk of land and forest f...

Indonesia may have just averted another major land and forest fire disaster this year, but experts h...

A helicopter prepared by the West Kalimantan administration gets ready to carry out water - bombing operations to prevent the spread of land and forest fires during the dry season.

It's an unprecedented rate of land and forest clearance in the country, creating a volatile situation of forest conservation, land confiscation and corrupt business interests.

Donor governments, implementing agencies and investors need clarity that forest dependent communities have clear and secure rights to their lands and forest governance is actively improved — as do the people depending on forests.

• Resist opening up public lands and forests in general for inappropriate «restoration», when it is really a euphemism for cutting for biomass utilization.

The reality of renewability and sustainability vanishes when simple calculations show that all crop land and all forest lands of California or the US can not meet the current demand for energy.

Among the supporting policies cited by the report are investing in public transportation infrastructure and renewable - based power generation, raising energy efficiency standards, adapting city design and planning, and land and forest management.

It identified results of decreased emissions from land use, deforestation, forest degradation and improved management of land and forest areas.

Land and forest fires are an annual occurrence throughout Indonesia, in large part to clear forests for agriculture.

Slow onset events are mentioned in the Cancun Agreements with a footnote saying that these are events «including sea level rise, increasing temperatures, glacial retreat and related impacts, salinization, land and forest degradation, loss of biodiversity, and desertification».

He argues convincingly that their numbers were far higher than previously thought; that, contrary to the Rousseauian picture of the isolated «noble savage» roaming the virgin forests with bow and arrow, the Indians practiced a great deal of intensive land and forest management, both in the temperate forests of North America, and in the tropical ones of Central America and Amazonia; and that, the genetic homogeneity of the Indians made them almost universally vulnerable to European diseases, particularly those that originated with the livestock that the Europeans brought with them (and to which the Europeans had relative immunity).

GERMANY»S green energy transition is destroying vast swathes of nature, agricultural lands and forests.

LSLAs are, however, core of national economic development strategies in the Mekong region, indicating a problematic relationship between REDD +, trade flows and land and forest governance.

In recognition of the dividends of helping indigenous peoples and local communities in rural areas secure rights to their traditional lands, in October the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) announced the International Land and Forest Tenure Facility, a $ 100 million, fund for scaling up recognition of rights to collective lands and forests.

Not exact matches

Medline moved from the forest products industry to Canadian Tire in the early 2000s and made a quick impression by landing the Mark's acquisition.

«The measure will accelerate the arrival of infrastructure and people for mining activities in areas of native forest, reproducing in the region the same lack of governance that permits the advance of deforestation and land grabs (elsewhere) in the Amazon,» Greenpeace said in a report by Reuters.

In practice, this meant more public land was set aside for conservation purposes and, in the areas still open to logging, cut blocks — those strategically shorn sections of forest seen in aerial photos — grew smaller.

According to AdAge, the Anheuser - Busch InBev - owned (ahbif) beer will feature the word «America» on its front and will be adorned with various nationalistic phrases --» Land of the free, home of the brave,» «From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf stream waters,» and «Indivisible since 1776» (apparently they forgot about the Civil War).

Amateur builder R.W. Bishop purchased 14 acres in North Toledo in 2000 and transformed the land into an amusement park that he called «Enchanted Forest Playland.»

That's why in 2001 Jagdeesh Rao founded the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) to help local villagers set up formal institutions -; like forest protection, management, and grazing land committees -; in order to better maintain publicly owned land.

Suncor is committed to ultimately returning all lands disturbed by our oil sands mining and in situ operations to a self - sustaining boreal forest ecosystem.

Since cattle require a wide expanse of this barren land in order to be profitable, the colonists indiscriminately cleared forests in every kind of climate, topography, and soil.

Roughly by the year 250 BCE., the clearing of forests and the over-cultivation of Mayan agricultural lands had caused a great deal of soil erosion (see Deevey, et al.).

This colonization is characterized by rapid destruction of the tropical forest, substituted first by cultivation of cleared lands and later by pastures which are burned annually.

The Spaniards invaded the region by pillaging nature; they appropriated vast tracts of land, monopolizing the best soil, introduced livestock, and enslaved the natives for clearing forests, creating pastureland, and tending livestock, thus establishing land - cattle fiefs.

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.

Every day, I see that birdhouse out of my kitchen window, I see it when I go to bed at night, a small white and blue birdhouse, in the middle of a forest, empty and beautiful, our own road to nowhere, the birdhouse without birds in a forest behind our fence, public land.

A narrow farm separated the houses from the forest, and a cemetery occupied a piece of land part way up the mountain.

For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

Hi - tech development under globalisation is further marginalising the poorer sections of traditional society especially the dalits, the tribals, the fisherfolk and the women by destroying their traditional living and community life by alienating them from the land, the forest and the water sources by which they made their living.