Sentences with phrase «remaining global forest»

«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 Ecology.

Not exact matches

Despite the massive (and, at the time of this writing, unextinguished) forest fire that ravaged parts of Fort McMurray, Alta., forced the evacuation of 90,000 residents and took an estimated 1.2 million barrels of daily capacity — 1.4 % of the global supply — offline, it has been quick to resume operations, even while the town remains deserted.

All told, by Luyssaert's calculations the relatively small remaining stands of old - growth forests in the U.S. Pacific Northwest as well as Canada and Russia consume «8 to 20 percent of the global terrestrial carbon sink,» or roughly 440.9 million tons (0.4 gigatonnes) of carbon per year.

Furthermore, when researchers analyzed patterns of remaining forest, they found a global loss of interior forest — core areas that, when intact, maintain critical habitat and ecological functions.

Global warming will only have a small effect in the tropics provided the cloud forests remain.

After many interviews with biologists and climate scientists focused on the Amazon, as well as people like Bruce Babbitt, the former United States secretary of the interior who has spent a lot of time crisscrossing the Amazon, I remain convinced that there is a path to development for Brazil — even with the growing global appetite for soy and biofuels and roads to the Pacific — that can preserve a large fraction of the vast forest region.

Without the safeguard, REDD monies projected to help developing countries protect their remaining forests and reduce the 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, forest degradation and peatland destruction could instead allow industrial - scale logging and replacement of tropical forests with pulp or palm oil plantations.

«Forest conservation must be prioritised based on their relative values, and Earth's remaining forests are the crown jewels, ones that global climate and biodiversity policies must now emphasise.»

An area of tropical forest the size of India will be deforested in the next 35 years, burning through more than one - sixth of the remaining carbon that can be emitted if global warming is to be kept below 2 degrees Celsius (the «planetary carbon budget»), but many of these emissions could be cheaply avoided by putting a price on carbon.

«WWF is alarmed that the loss of forests is taking such a high toll not only on the remaining wild elephants and tigers in Sumatra but also on global climate change,» said Dr Sybille Klenzendorf, director of species conservation at WWF - US.

For more information on Liberia, see other Global Witness reports and briefing documents, available at www.globalwitness.org (3) «Logging Off» September 2002, Page 11, Taylor made — The Pivotal role of Liberia's Forests in Regional Conflict», September 2001, Page 15 (4) For more information on Global Witness's work on Liberia see: «An Architecture of Instability: How the critical link between natural resources and conflict remains unbroken.

As international policy frameworks and pledges of billions of dollars move REDD + forward, many observers remain concerned over how to ensure the lofty promises being made for global forest conservation will actually provide broader social and environmental benefits.

In this case, global warming is acting in concert with local clear - cutting to provide a dual threat to this great forest that is home to 14 million species and is one of the largest remaining carbon sinks on the planet.

Although the rate of global net forest loss slowed down from an average of 7.3 million hectares per year in the 1990s to 3.3 million hectares per year in 2010 — 2015, deforestation remains a matter of deep concern.

But with global food demand expected to grow another 50 % by 2050, the expanding footprint of agriculture threatens to decimate much of what remains of the earth's forests and grasslands, even if output is able to keep up with demand.

«The term «sustainable forest management» has been co-opted by the forest industry to improve its image without actually changing the logging practices that are currently destroying the world's remaining tropical forests,» said Dr. Rosalind Reeve of Global Witness.

Brazil provides a good case in point, because it holds the globe's largest remaining area of tropical forests, is the world's second - largest producer of biofuel (after the United States), and is the world's leading supplier of biofuel for global trade.

These communities play a key role in the global challenge of fighting climate change by saving some of the world's most critical remaining forests from destruction.

As forests around the world continue to be cleared to meet the global demand for timber, there remains millions of acres of trees that have so far been out of reach — because they're underwater.

As forest expansion remained stable, the global net forest loss between 2000 and 2010 was 5.2 million hectares per year.