Sentences with phrase «oldest forest conservation»

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Mass Audubon promotes conservation of our forest resources, including old growth reserves, for wildlife habitat and public benefit and for the capture of carbon from the atmosphere in forest growth and soils.

Because the owls» biggest problem used to be destruction of their old - growth forest habitat, conservation efforts have focused on protection against logging.

To see where cowbirds reproduce most successfully, conservation biologist Rachael Winfree of Princeton University in New Jersey compared nests in an old field to those in a patch of forest.

In the Huangnihe conservation district, a patchwork of old growth forest and reforested former logging areas adjacent to Jilin's two main tiger habitat reserves, Huangnihe forest reserve director Li Cheng is working with scientists and conservation groups to find alternative jobs for locals, for example by training loggers and poachers as organic honey farmers.

In a related 2013 study in the journal Biological Conservation, Brandt and her colleagues reported that northwest Yunnan's old - growth sacred forests are critical for forest birds in the Himalayas, where more threatened bird species live than anywhere else in the world.

Martín Ramírez, from the Argentinian Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study, commented on the habitat specificity of this species, «confined to the oldest and extensively hollow myrtle beech trees in the humid forests in the western part of the Great Otway National Park, or in mountain ash trees, upon which the myrtle trees depend,» thus making an important case for the conservation of such habitats.

Dartmouth research shows China's anti-logging, conservation and ecotourism policies are accelerating the loss of old - growth forests in the Himalayas.

«Here I am surveying old - growth secondary forest along the remote Rio Tunquimayo in the Puno province in SE Peru to determine the impact of coffee cultivation on bird conservation.

Effective conservation efforts should include maintenance of large old - growth forest tracts, the scientists wrote, and insure that human activities in the forest do not drive away species that depend on such areas.

Old, complex tropical forests support a wider diversity of birds than second - growth forests and have irreplaceable value for conservation, according to an Oregon State University - led exhaustive analysis of bird diversity in the mountains of southern Costa Rica.

The presence of 11 minerals, scientifically and aesthetically unique speleothems, and a 20 million year old Serenia fossil embedded in the walls of the cave justifies the declaration of the Puerto Princesa Underground River as one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature.The Park also contains a full mountain to sea ecosystems and protects forests that are important for biodiversity conservation.

I stepped back from active participation in the old - growth (and other forest) conservation wars in 2000.

«Any effective and affordable response to climate change should include preserving the world's remaining, carbon - rich old - growth forests,» said Steve Kallick, director of the Pew Environment Group's International Boreal Conservation Campaign.

Conversely, if the offset mechanism of choice were old - growth forests — an important target of conservation efforts [33], but for which respiration rates often equal sequestration — the net balance of carbon sequestration from forests is zero or close to it.

As head of the Old - Growth Forest Network and a professor at Salisbury University, Maloof aims to identify stands of old - growth forests for conservatiOld - Growth Forest Network and a professor at Salisbury University, Maloof aims to identify stands of old - growth forests for conservatiold - growth forests for conservation.

Proceeds of up to $ 1.75 million (that's a whole lot of bags) from the bag campaign will go to American Forests, the nation's oldest non-profit citizens conservation organization, to plant trees to restore forests and offset CO2 emissions (we mentioned that programForests, the nation's oldest non-profit citizens conservation organization, to plant trees to restore forests and offset CO2 emissions (we mentioned that programforests and offset CO2 emissions (we mentioned that program here).

And it's not only the jungles of Borneo or Costa Rica that are under threat: Over 95 % of North America's old - growth forest has already been lost, and Canada, arguably, lags behind the U.S. in conservation efforts.