Sentences with phrase «on local forests»

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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.

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.

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.

El Porvenir plans on using the award funds for a biologist - led conservation course at the local school, along with an art contest for students with the theme «Forest Conservation.»

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.

First up on Tuesday night, a late Henrik Dalsgaard goal, his first for the club, secured a 1 - 0 victory over Nottingham Forest at The City Ground before Neal Maupay struck a 94th minute equaliser at Craven Cottage on Saturday in the local derby against Fulham.

Fort Bragg Unified School District — Pilar Gray Innovation: Noyo Food Forest: Growing Fresh Produce Consumption in a Remote Rural District In collaboration with a local nonprofit, the Noyo Food Forest, Nutrition Services helped create a small working farm on the district's high school campus.

Also at 11 a.m., Schenectady City School District Superintendent Larry Spring holds a press conference on the local education funding increase with Sen. Jim Tedisco, and Assemblymen Angelo Santabarbara and Phil Steck, and Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy, Mont Pleasant Middle School Library Media Center 1121 Forest Rd., Schenectady.

State and local officials toured an 800 - acre forest around the shuttered Shoreham nuclear power plant in an effort to preserve the site slated for a solar farm on Tuesday, April 18, 2017.

Local governments and environmental groups have united to blast an executive state budget proposal to use payment - in - lieu - of - taxes agreements instead of market value to calculate taxes on the vast Forest Preserve holdings in the Adirondack Park and the Catskills.

The bomb threat that forced the local Jewish Community Center to evacuate both its buildings, on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo and North Forest Road in Amherst, late Monday morning was part of a nationwide effort that saw at least 10 such centers targeted with similar threats, according to local and national officials.

The head of Local 1199 SEIU, George Gresham — the only major union to back de Blasio early on — and the president of Forest City Ratner Companies, MaryAnne Gilmartin, both made the cut.

A four - hour lonely walk in the thick forest of one of the mountainous Becheve communities in the Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross River State is enough to elicit goosebumps on a brave fighter because of the risk of wild animals.

Troops of Sector 6, 1 Division Nigerian Army Internal Security Force deployed at Soba Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Saturday 28th October 2017 in conjunction with the Nigeria Police and vigilantes, raided and destroyed armed bandits and kidnappers hideout at a forest near Gobarawa - Matari village, Soba Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

While commenting on the arrest of the 84 - persons at Ado - odo area, Adejobi noted that the arrest took place at Imoshe forest of Igbesa council with the help of locals.

Others are local oddities, like Alabama's Red Hills salamander, which has been seen emerging from its burrows on steep forest slopes so rarely that it was only discovered in 1960.

By cross-referencing these impacts with data on local elephant populations, forest tree - species composition and structure, nutrient availability, and understory growth in existing Central African forests — both protected and unprotected ones alike — Poulsen and his team determined that up to 96 percent of all forests in the region were susceptible to dramatic changes if elephant populations shrank or disappeared.

There are already some schemes in Brazil to pay private land owners to set aside land to conserve the forest, preserve species and maintain healthy ecosystems, but these have been local - scale initiatives that have had little impact on maintaining and improving the conditions of the forest as a whole.

The park's forests are under pressure from the charcoal trade, and in 2007 the local charcoal mafia assassinated seven of the park's gorillas in retaliation for a crackdown on illegal logging.

Microclimate is the climate near the ground which can be colder or warmer than in the free atmosphere, depending on local topography (e.g. north vs. south side of a hill, higher vs. lower elevation) and vegetation (e.g. young sparse vs. old dense forest).

According to Beard, their paper in the Journal of African Earth Sciences sheds light on a poorly documented interval of our own evolutionary history, and shows climate and environmental change can utterly alter a local ecosystem — from a wet, subtropical forest in the Eocene to a dry desert today.

The co-authors were «amazed» at this anatomy of the giant sequoia leaf that «indicates an ability to respond to local environmental signals» and furthers inquiry into the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems.

«To predict the effects this type of deforestation has on the relationship between rain forest and the savanna — and on the local and global climate — it's necessary to understand how the transitional forest evolves in time and reacts to disturbances,» explained Yannick De Decker, associate professor at the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, as well as the Nonlinear Physical Chemistry Unit at ULB.

With Greenpeace's help, the locals prepared an official resolution under the Forest Rights Act to be voted on during a village committee meeting.

Travelers indulging in a community based tourism trip might follow a local guide deep into his tribe's forest to spot otherworldly wildlife, eat exotic regional delicacies around rough - hewn tables, watch and even take part in celebrations of local culture, and sleep on straw mats at the homes of local families.

The chimps are basically imposing a «natural tax» on farmers growing crops near the nutrient - rich soils of the forest,» said Shane McGuinness, lead author on the research and PhD student in Geography at Trinity, who conducted the interview - based study with the help of the Great Apes Trust and local conservation workers.

Zinke contributed language to H.R. 2647, the «Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015,» that his office said would «encourage local collaboration on timber projects, curb frivolous lawsuits, and prevent catastrophic wildfires.»

If bighead and silver carp were to establish in Lake Erie, local fish biomass is not likely to change beyond observations recorded in the last three decades, according to a study published in the journal Conservation Biology on Thursday (Aug. 6) by a group of scientists from the University of Notre Dame, Resources for the Future, U.S. Forest Service, University of Michigan and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory.

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It is important to note that any potential effects will be spatially and temporally variable, depending on current forest conditions, local site characteristics, environmental influences, and annual and decadal patterns of climate variability, such as the El Niño - Southern Oscillation cycle, which can drive regional weather and climate conditions.

Hunter Gatherer Pili nuts are hand - harvested in the wild Filipino rain forest, placing minimal strain on natural resources and providing local communities with an incentive to preserve their wild spaces.

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The others — Dafoe, Zoe Saldana («Star Trek Into Darkness») as the ex-girlfriend, and Forest Whitaker («Lee Daniels» The Butler») as the local sheriff — are underused but all are engaging while on screen.

Lena has moved on with the local sheriff (Forest Whitaker), and both Rodney and John Petty are going to realize that clearing your debts is easier said than done, especially when those debts are to DeGroat.

There are collaborations — at Aberfoyle Hub R - 7 School in South Australia, local kindy students will be visiting for an afternoon of science activities run by the senior primary students; and events focusing on real - word applications — Tasmania's Forest Primary School is running a project called Old MacDonald Had a Drone, encouraging students, staff, parents and the community to find out more about how technology is improving local farming practices.

The Forest Lake Educational Foundation has raised cash by giving local businesses plaques of appreciation for contributions, by hitting up grandparents for checks when they visited the school on Grandparents Day (yes, it works), and offering «Honor Cards» to notify people of donations in their honor for Valentine's Day.

Milburn, a former Labour cabinet minister, also criticised the failure of some local authorities — Portsmouth and Bracknell Forest — to send a single child on free school meals to top universities.

On Saturday a local tuning shop Black Forest Industries held their second Oktoberfest.

Closer to home, we don't need any of these devices to make decent time on our local well - traveled forest access roads, but we find the front stabilizer disconnect works well to combat head toss on the stony dirt surface, as long as we stay below its activation threshold of 19 mph.

That is why it encourages its members to concentrate on rehabilitating degraded forests and open lands with local indigenous trees and vegetation -LSB-...]».

Not only was the Siberian Forest cat talked and written about, it was also highly revered for its natural hunting abilities in keeping the rodent population under control on the local farms.

Second Chance Shelter for Cats Second Chance Shelter is a small, no - kill, home - based shelter in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, and a network of loving foster homes, friends, sympathetic veterinarians and feline rescuers, working to reduce the number of homeless cats in our backyards and on our local Boston streets.

Elephant Ride Elephant safari will take you pass through unworldly beauty of natural rice paddies, quant Balinese village, temples and local markets on the scenic drive to Bali elephant camp, located in history village of Carang Sari, birth place Bali national hero «Ngurah Rai «(name of Bali International Airport) and only a short distance from the Sangeh monkey forest.

Scenic Highlights: Ride the rails through Mongolia's grassy steppe and Siberia's taiga forests, stay in a local village on Lake Baikal, admire the grand structure of Moscow's Kremlin and Red Square, marvel at the rich art collection in the Hermitage

A lot of shop on the way to the forest and the local guide (one of the shopkeeper) will accompany you to see the monkey around and the end they will ask you to visit theirs shop for souvenirs.

Porto Timoni is a stunning beach, with water on both sides and beautiful forested hills providing the perfect backdrop, or you could head to Arillas for nature trails through the local forest and fauna.