Sentences with phrase «remaining forest fragments»

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Fragments of the original forest remained, thanks to government policies that required some trees to be left standing.

The last remaining fragment of that primeval European wilderness — half a million acres of woods straddling the border between Poland and Belarus, called the Bialowieza Forest — provides another glimpse of how the world would look if we were gone.

«In addition to the direct loss of forest, there was a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition,» explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecforest, there was a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition,» explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecforest to a more fragmented condition,» explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape EcForest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape EcForest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecology.

«As forest area is lost and the remainder becomes more fragmented, the remaining forest may no longer function as interior forest,» explains Riitters.

Only 1000 or so are left, trapped in the few fragments of forest that remain.

The report identified over 40 key actions needed to boost gibbon numbers and ensure their long - term survival, including enhancing monitoring systems to keep track of remaining individuals, creating canopy bridges between forest fragments to expand their habitat range, and limiting disturbance by people in forested areas.

Ninety - six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature.

In the understated language of science, the new study, in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes: «This is unfortunate when one considers that for some species - rich areas of the planet, a large proportion of remaining forest is in fragments» smaller than 2,500 acres.

According to Stott, the project would have fragmented «the combined contiguous habitats of the Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, the Thung Yai Wildlife Sanctuary, the Kroeng Kavia Non-Hunting Area, and the undisturbed forest across the border in Burma possibly comprise the finest remaining conservation area in the whole of mainland Asia.»

Roads and development fragment over half of the remaining forests.

Although there is little chance of recovery for the Atlantic Forest, researchers say that some hope remains for the few persisting species clinging to life in the fragmented ecosystem.