Sentences with phrase «of eucalyptus plantations»

While he would like to see more data on the water use and fire impacts of eucalyptus plantations, Binkley understands the tree's allure, he said.

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The eucalyptus - lined path that leads to Porras's office winds past a medical clinic, a schoolhouse, and an HR office — facilities that are unheard of on most Guatemalan plantations.

Pepper vines are a particularly attractive sight in their native southern India, where in the western ghats (steps) of Kerala, they are trellised on palm trees, and sometimes eucalyptus, in what the locals charmingly refer to as «spice gardens» rather than plantations.

During the colonization of Brazil in the 16th century, land was doled out entirely to Portuguese royal families, and, today, productive land in the lowland savanna has been swallowed up by cattle ranches, soybean farms, and eucalyptus plantations run by powerful business interests.

International Paper and MeadWestvaco are planning to transform plantation forests of the southeastern U.S. by replacing native pine with genetically engineered eucalyptus

Humankind could shrink its footprint down to size by dramatically boosting the carbon uptake of the world's trees — by, for instance, replacing forests with plantations of fast - growing trees like eucalyptus.

Two industry giants, International Paper Co. and MeadWestvaco Corp., are planning to transform plantation forests of the southeastern United States by replacing native pine with genetically engineered eucalyptus, a rapidly growing Australian tree that in its conventional strains now dominates the tropical timber industry.

The timber industry has long dreamed of importing eucalyptus into the South, mimicking Brazil's success, where plantations transformed the country — at some environmental toll — from a timber importer to an exporter within decades.

A tiny number of seedlings are almost assured to escape from the eucalyptus plantations, Strauss said.

We brought back cattle to some of the grazing lands, and 300 acres of damaged pastureland was planted with eucalyptus and Honduran pine; these plantations are still in place today.

Under the cover of theoretically reducing carbon dioxide emissions, for example, a monoculture eucalyptus plantation that displaces indigenous residents of the rainforest can wreak enormous social and environmental damage.

and that projects of monoculture eucalyptus plantations are often hugely environmentally damaging

Nearly half of all forests burned in the European Union in 2016 were in Portugal, where fire - prone eucalyptus and pine plantations along with poor soil encouraged the deadly flames.

Taken at face value and with a proper understanding of how it has been constructed, the EF suggests that the easiest way to avoid overshooting the planet's biological carrying capacity would be to convert huge land areas to eucalyptus plantations.

How does the eucalyptus plantations contribute to the carbon sink of nature?

Its operations in Brazil consist of a plantation that grows eucalyptus trees on its 150,000 hectares of freehold land, and a state - of - the - art mill to produce both specialty - grade and rayon - grade dissolving wood pulp that are natural raw materials and key ingredients in a diverse range of everyday items.