Sentences with phrase «rampant deforestation in»

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

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.»

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

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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.

Deforestation, war, rampant exploitation of resources, and the serve concentration of the worlds wealth in the hands of a few corporations.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In an effort to deal with rampant corruption and rising deforestation, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has reviewed and canceled some 60 % of logging contracts in the countrIn an effort to deal with rampant corruption and rising deforestation, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has reviewed and canceled some 60 % of logging contracts in the countrin the country.

According to a report released earlier this year by INTERPOL and UNEP, deforestation, civil war, and the rampant bushmeat trade could cause gorillas in the Congo Basin to go extinct in the next 10 - 15 years.