Sentences with phrase «maintaining shade cover»

Indicators specific to maintaining shade cover include percent cover, canopy tree diversity and native species benchmarks, and preservation of epiphytes and vines.

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Through the project's greenhouse gas accounting, build local awareness about the value of maintaining and restoring forest cover, and improve the desirability of maintaining shade coffee over cattle ranching or other activities with a higher ecological impact.

The «Coffee Growing — Environmental Leadership» section covers water body protection, including criteria for width and type of vegetated buffer zones along permanent and seasonal water bodies, and use of chemicals or waste storage near water bodies; protection of soil resources, including measures to control and prevent erosion and use of organic mulches and cover crops; conserving biodiversity, including maintaining a shade canopy, protecting wildlife, and establishment of conservation areas; and environmental management, including pest and disease control.

Farms located in areas where the original natural vegetative cover is forest must establish and maintain, as part of the conservation program, permanent shade distributed homogenously throughout the plantations; the shade must meet the following requirements:

By maintaining abundant forest cover in shade coffee plantations, they can function as buffer zones and can form the backbone to the biological corridor linking the two national parks and other forest fragments.