Sentences with phrase «land by planting trees»

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1) Conserved natural ecosystems; 2) Areas being restored to natural ecosystems; 3) Tree cover within agroforestry or silvopastoral production plots2; 4) Gardens, live fences, riparian zones or border plantings; or 5) Off - site compensation areas, including land held in common by farmer groups that is not part of individual member farms3.

A research project funded by the European Union found that the diversity of landscape and farming systems was greater in organic farms, regarding land use types, crops, livestock, plantings (hedges, solitary shrubs, trees) and flora.

The findings highlight the urgent need for policy - makers worldwide to re-think the issue as many decision - makers, national and internationally, assume that fossil fuel emissions can be offset through sequestering carbon by planting trees and other land management practices.

The Future Forest Initiative, founded by a UNCCD Dryland Ambassador Byong Hyon Kwon, brings together youth volunteers though its Green Corps program with the goal to plant one billion trees in China's Kubuchu Desert and prove that degraded lands can be successfully reclaimed.

You can go it alone (with the help of a park service map), but on a guided tour led by a park service ranger, you'll learn about St John's tropical forests as they identify the trees, plants and animals — deer, bats, land crabs, termites — along the way.

The conservation Ecology Centre also acquires and restores degraded land, and with this has turned the land around by planting more than 80,000 trees.

Here, they remove the trees, burn the land, let grass grow, put on too many cows which tear out the grasses by their roots, the topsoil washes away, they plant cacti, and during droughts, these too die, leaving rocky desolation, and no further way for the inhabitants to make a living.

This plan, originally proposed by Olusegun Obasanjo when he was President of Nigeria, calls for the planting of 300 million trees on 3 million hectares of land, in a long band stretching across Africa.

A growing minority, however, favored an A / R (Afforestation / Reforestation) strategy, which would let them earn carbon credits by planting trees on land that hadn't been forest for a long time — if ever.

«The idea that you can prevent climate change by planting trees, while simultaneously stripping the land bare of its carbon stocks and pulling out all the stops to burn more coal, is frankly ludicrous,» Senator Rice said.

On May 2011, President Aquino launched the National Greening Program (NGP), which aims to plant 1.5 billion trees in around 1.5 million hectares of public lands by 2017.

Specifically, the study found that planting more trees and stopping deforestation, improving agricultural land and livestock management, and protecting and restoring wetlands could collectively deliver 11.3 billion tonnes of CO2 - equivalent emissions reductions per year by 2030.

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