Sentences with phrase «recent preservation efforts»

As part of recent preservation efforts, pygeum trees have been favored as part of agroforestry programs and as an alternative for reforestation.

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Local officials claim this is proof that the government's environmental preservation efforts have been successful, but recent research by climate scientists suggests a more worrying explanation for rising water levels: not only is climate change thought to be responsible for increased rainfall and snowfall in the area, it has also caused, by some estimates, up to a fifth of the permafrost which covers 80 % of the plateau to melt.