Sentences with phrase «rampant deforestation»

Yet, every day, they're being destroyed by rampant deforestation — and the wildlife who depend on them are being driven to extinction.

Yet, every day, they're being destroyed by rampant deforestation — and the wildlife who depend on them are being driven to extinction.

Density increased everywhere but Asia, where rampant deforestation in Indonesia canceled out gains elsewhere on the continent.

The rapid growth of the industry has resulted in rampant deforestation across the region that has fragmented the habitats of countless species and sparked land conflicts between plantation operators and forest - dependent and indigenous communities.

Until use of fossil energy is limited, and rampant deforestation stopped (which was addressed in Bali), all other issues are secondary.

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.

As if rampant deforestation and poaching weren't bad enough, climate change will have a devastating effect on the majority of Madagascar's lemur species, most of them already imperiled, according to a paper published this week in Ecology and Evolution.

In a meeting with the Green Belt Movement (GBM) Board and management, CS Tobiko outlined, among others, his Ministry's agenda to tackle rampant deforestation in the country stating that «environment is life and the role of trees can not be denied.»

These lands were falling victim to rampant deforestation driven by unrestricted charcoal trade.

Following rampant deforestation in Europe, conservationists planted fast - growing, commercially valuable conifer trees, rather than native broadleaved trees.

One more story making the rounds last week that you may have missed in the midst of all the continued oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, but is worthwhile paying attention to: The top line is that the UN REDD program got $ 4 billion in funding, with $ 1 billion coming from Norway and going to Indonesia to help stop rampant deforestation there.

Nothing for Costa Rica, the only country in the tropics to have curbed rampant deforestation and increased its forest cover.

Rampant deforestation across the Amazon basin has led to an incredible find: a lost tribe of native people who have remained hidden from the world for years, and therefore have no idea that Fallout...

In view of the ongoing destruction caused by rampant deforestation, the introduction of alien species and climate change — to name but a few of the forces we are unleashing on the planet — the idea that we might deny future generations the opportunity to perform a small act of creation through cloning seems woefully short - sighted.

Only recently, the devastation of Hurricane Mitch in Central America was made much more tragic due to the rampant deforestation due to population pressures in those poor lands.

She is at the forefront of a revolution in a $ 5 billion global industry once synonymous with worker abuse, rampant deforestation and the ruin of streams, rivers and coral reefs.

Between 1999 and 2012 alone, mining in the Peruvian Amazon increased by 400 percent, resulting in rampant deforestation and the dumping of an estimated 3,000 tons of mercury into local waterways.

Rampant deforestation across the Amazon basin has led to an incredible find: a lost tribe of native people who have remained hidden from the world for years, and therefore have no idea that Fallout 1 is the best in the series.

The democratization of Cambodia and Indonesia in the 1990s, for instance, led to rampant deforestation, as logging firms exploited dubious governance to gain large concessions or simply cut illegally.

More than 1,000 rural activists, small farmers, religious workers and others fighting the region's rampant deforestation have been slain in the past 20 years, but only a handful of killers have ever been successfully prosecuted, according to a statement by the Pastoral Land Commission, a Catholic organization that tracks rural violence.

When you follow the parrot trail — from the relentless hunting that is decimating wild populations to the rampant deforestation that is clearing their natural habitats — it leads to the decline and the destruction not only of these treasured species but... eventually to our systematic destruction of the planet as we know it.»

Rampant deforestation, much of it from illegal logging, has destroyed forests that stabilize soils and regulate river flow, causing record floods and landslides.

From melting polar ice caps, ocean plastic pollution, and rampant deforestation, to vicious politics and refugee crises, the world's problems seem so immense and complex that one can't help feeling overwhelmed.