Sentences with phrase «logged rain forest»

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This has led me to the central Amazon, where I've been investigating how the isolation of fragments of rain forest by logging and cattle ranching influences the growth of plants found in the forest understory.

Aliens might want resources from our solar system (Earth's oceans, perhaps, full of hydrogen for refilling a fusion - powered spacecraft) and swat us aside if we get in the way, as we might dismiss mosquitoes or beetles stirred up by the logging of a rain forest.

The researchers counted the number of species of trees on parcels of land in the Indonesian Borneo rain forest that had been selectively logged for tall trees, either 1 or 8 years ago.

Rainey urges consumers to support conservation efforts and make sure any rain forest wood they purchase has Forest Stewardship Council certification, which ensures that the wood comes from logging conducted in a way that protects haforest wood they purchase has Forest Stewardship Council certification, which ensures that the wood comes from logging conducted in a way that protects haForest Stewardship Council certification, which ensures that the wood comes from logging conducted in a way that protects habitat.

But as logging opened up vast swaths of Central African rain forest, poachers increasingly targeted elusive forest elephants under a green canopy that hid their kills from aerial surveillance.

The fear is that progressive logging itself will lead to a tipping point beyond which the forest is no longer dense and large enough to recycle enough rain to survive.

For example, when students visit the rain forest, they might see a puppet show, listen to a native healer, eat dishes prepared from bananas, or walk on logs to simulate the destruction of the rain forest.

Years ago Mexican forest activists on the coast were murdered for opposing logging, which they did on the grounds that the trees bring rain, and their crops would fail without them (which they ended up doing).

By one estimate, for every acre of rain forest cut down each year, more than 50 acres of new forest are growing in the tropics on land that was once farmed, logged or ravaged by natural disaster.

A computer illustration created by the wildlife activist group WWF - Indonesia using Google Earth provides a tour of Sumatran rain forest areas at risk of destruction by logging companies and palm oil producers.

At its most basic level, REDD + enables rich, industrialized countries such as Norway, Germany and the United Kingdom to pay forested tropical countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Peru and others to keep their rain forests standing, rather than log them to make way for cattle ranches or other agricultural purposes.

Illegal logging is driving the lion's share of deforestation in the world's rain forests, and organized crime is to blame for almost all of it.