Sentences with phrase «of local forests»

In this new podcast, RFF Senior Fellow Allen Blackman sits down to talk about the granting of titles to indigenous communities in Latin American countries to take over the control of their local forests.

By 1991, the demand was more than double the sustainable yield of local forests.

The cats lead Mary to a mysterious flower growing in a glade of the local forest.

There has been tremendous increase in the clearance of forests lands around the world for palm oil production in recent years, which is of major concern to the environment and rights of local forest communities.

I was so brutalized by EMF radiation the other day, I decided to get out of town and visit what's left of a local forest.

However, the severity of your traffic violation penalty is under the discretion of the local Forest Mississippi court where you received your moving violation.

Enjoy serene surrounding from the balcony of the local forest like view.

Not exact matches

In 1992, Disney planted 60,000 trees to form what is known as the Mickey Mouse Forest as part of a local reforestation project.

As Rosser remembers it, her father, Forest Jenkins, who started Triad, was as excited as other local contractors to get a decent book of business in 1989, when Trump set to work building the Taj Mahal casino.

The region's wealth of attractions, including national parks, forests, beaches and wineries, make it the most popular regional tourist destination for local, interstate and overseas visitors.

And while Bruce Ratner, the scion who founded local division Forest City Ratner in the 1980s and ran it up until three years ago, didn't quite put it in terms of centuries, he did say becoming a REIT had been on his wishlist.

«The association between Wallace and the local area is quite well documented, with Wallace using guerilla tactics to fight the English from the Ettrick Forest, and the Scottish nobles made Wallace Guardian of Scotland in recognition of his military successes.

My community (albeit not a local arm of an organized denomination) keeps me from wandering too far off and getting lost in a forest of despair.

One day in 1970, so the story goes, the women of the village spontaneously began to hug the local trees, their precious source of firewood, stopping New Delhi corporations from logging the forests for foreign export.

Local chefs took up the challenge and brought their version of matzo balls to the Forest Trace community center in Lauderhill, Florida.

Five pilot areas - Blackburn, Bradford, Peterborough, Walsall and the London borough of Waltham Forest - will develop local integration plans allowing new strategies to be tested as the programme develops.

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Told through the experiences of several of the leading figures in Australia's Fair Food movement, this book tells stories of personal change, courage, innovation and food activism, from local food hubs and backyard food - forests, to the GE - free movement, urban agriculture, radical homemaking and regenerative agriculture.

However, while this seems like a promising development, it is debatable whether it has had much influence on what actually has been happening in the field as forests continue to be torn down and local people shunted to jail for protesting the taking of their land.

The establishment of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in 2004 set up voluntary guidelines for «greener» palm oil production and has tried to encourage palm oil expansion in a «sustainable» way that doesn't ruin primary rain forests or violate the land rights of local people.

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.

ASOCUCH is one of 17 local NGOs working in partnership with the Rainforest Alliance to arrest Guatemala's rampant deforestation crisis by strengthening community forest management, with the support of USAID.

Although the community forestry model has been in use in Cameroon for more than 20 years, its adoption has been slowed by the limited capacity of local communities to comply with complicated regulations, operate competitive enterprises, and access markets for sustainable forest products.

We have also facilitated the establishment of four local community - owned forest enterprises as tools for pooling investments in equipment and social infrastructure.

Yet even as the Congo Basin and other tropical forests around the world face mounting threats, a promising alternative has begun to emerge: the devolution of forest management to local communities.

Just why five people from Indonesian forest communities now find themselves deep in the Selva Maya is due to a confluence of factors: the resounding success of the forest concessions here in Guatemala, a landmark Indonesian court decision to hand over forest rights to local communities and indigenous groups, and the budding partnership between Guatemala's Association of Community Forests of the Petén (ACOFOP), who is hosting this exchange, and the Indonesia Indigenous People's Alliance (AMAN).

But the introduction of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification in the 1980s has had a positive impact on Bolivia's forestry sector, and the workers, wildlife, and local communities that depend on it.

The core finding of this case study is that local forest enterprise — even when highly incipient, undercapitalized and operating in a challenging context — can be profitable and significantly improve local incomes.

This network of corridors, together with the protected forest and diverse shade trees, provides a healthy environment for the local flora and fauna.

These streams form a network of natural corridors through the farm that connect the large protected forests in the two river valleys, providing a healthy environment for the local animals, birds, and plants.

A promising alternative has begun to emerge: the devolution of forest management to local communities

I am currently working with small scale farmers in the Ecuadorian highlands and we have recently become interested in the idea of growing shade - grown coffee as a way of sustaining the local growers and preserving some of the native forests in the region.

Companies and their customers can choose palm oil that's been grown in a sustainable way — meaning no more forests and other important habitats are destroyed, and the rights of workers and local communities are respected.

The lack of mushrooms (not just in the forest but interestingly in the local restaurants too) only left me craving mushrooms even more than before.

Farmers, local governments, and businesses in the Peruvian Amazon are working to conserve forests, build climate resilience, and strengthen the role of women farmers.

Navitas Naturals cacao is sustainably harvested in the lush forests of Peru, where our partners carefully select the best cacao beans from local small - scale organic cacao farmers.

The FA Cup is not high on Derby's list of priorities, but, after losing to Nottingham Forest last weekend, Rams boss Steve McClaren will be determined to avoid another home defeat to local opposition.

St. Charles — Almost 200 acres of environmentally sensitive nature areas would be given to the Kane County Forest Preserve system in exchange for helping a local park district buy the land necessary to construct a multi-use athletic and recreation facility in western St. Charles Township.

«Local governments have been unable to come up with enough money to preserve prairies, forests and wetlands,» Ryan told a crowd of about 200 who showed up Wednesday in Volunteer Park to watch Ryan's helicopter land.

Since late February, researchers from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Lincoln Park Zoo have been monitoring levels of cortisol (known as the stress hormone) in three species that have been reintroduced or restored by the forest preserve: wood frogs (designated as «in great need of conservation» in Illinois); spotted salamanders, a rare species for northeastern Illinois; and spring peepers, a frog species whose local populations are in decline.

Located in the Green Mountain National Forest, OEC Campers have the unique experience of exploring all that Mount Snow has to offer including hiking, biking, swimming, golfing, chairlift rides, adventuring to local areas and attractions, and exploring creativity through arts and crafts.

The local Bikeways Plan places Centennial Park at the hub of a network connecting the Tinley Creek Forest Preserve to the northeast with the Orland Grasslands Forest Preserve to the southwest.

Come and visit Moose Hill and view the forest and fields as local Native Americans did - seeing the earth as your source of food, medicine, and shelter.

Mass Audubon is working to support the protection of forests and other important land and water resources at the state and local levels.

Mark has been involved in a variety of local community service activities including; the NSSED Governing Board, NSSED APS Board, Lake Forest - Lake Bluff Learning Disabilities Board, LBES principal search committee, the District 65 21st Century Learners curriculum committee, Soccer and Little League coaching, and scouting and swim team events.

Community Involvement Mark has been involved in a variety of local community service activities including; the NSSED Governing Board, NSSED APS Board, Lake Forest - Lake Bluff Learning Disabilities Board, LBES principal search committee, the District 65 21st Century Learners curriculum committee, Soccer and Little League coaching, and scouting and swim team events.

The vast majority of this acreage is forests, which are key to our local resiliency to climate change.

The Kane County Forest Preserve District and park districts in Naperville and Lisle are among local government agencies to receive grants from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for land acquisition and other parkland projects.

Park districts in Naperville and Lisle, along with the Kane County Forest Preserve District, are among local government agencies to receive grants from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for land acquisition and other parkland projects.

Nick Palmer's insight is interesting (Waltham Forest in London is another e.g. of Lab - Lib coalition at local level).