Sentences with phrase «of virgin forest»

Set in eight acres of virgin forest and landscaped gardens.

The biggest tract of virgin forest in the eastern United States, this park retained forest - dwelling mammals and birds long extinct in central Maryland.

To this day, more than half of the island remains untouched by developers, leaving miles of virgin forest, beach and wetland for residents, visitors and native wildlife.

Monteverde Cloud Forest 1 - Day Tour: Canopy Zipline The Monteverde Cloud Forest is incomparable in its amount of virgin forest and the biodiversity within.

Here, jump aboard your speedboat and set off across the waves to the pristine Los Haitises National Park — a protected landscape of virgin forest and mangrove swamp formed more than 10,000 years ago.

Yet deforestation for agriculture and cattle ranching has left only 25 percent of its virgin forests intact.

Green purists want to see restoration of virgin forest with none of the logging that makes the project economically feasible.

Nonetheless, when managed sustainably — such as by prioritising the cultivation of feedstock crops on degraded lands and avoiding the clearing of virgin forest — biofuel grown for export can make a significant contribution to national development goals.

Oil palm cultivation for biodiesel has recently been criticized because of destructive practices such as monocrop plantings, cultivation on unsuitable land leading to ecological deterioration, rapacious cutting or burning of virgin forests, and other practices that release significant amounts of heat - trapping gases.

The deteriorating climate, hurricanes and the melting of glaciers and the polar caps are directly proportional to the disappearance of virgin forests.

I'm inclined to take exception to the statement «Enormous tracts of virgin forest have little to do with sustaining people...» As «the air conditioner of the earth,» tracts of virgin tropical forest sustain us all through many important ecosystem functions.

These four, and five other strangers - each summoned in different ways by trees - are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.

The new findings suggest that the international demand for soybeans and other Brazilian crops is driving industrialized farming operations to clear - cut and cultivate large tracts of virgin forest.

These four, and five other strangers — each summoned in different ways by trees — are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.

In the US since 1600, 90 % of the virgin forests that once covered much of the lower 48 states have been cleared away!