Sentences with phrase «restore grassland»

Researchers working in northern Siberia have been striving to restore the grassland ecosystem that supported mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and other giants during the Pleistocene epoch, between 1.8 million and 10,000 years ago.

A little chicken wire, better grazing practices, leaner cattle, controlled development, and fewer off - road vehicles could help restore the grasslands.

Using livestock to combat desertification and restore grasslands is one example, and the ongoing efforts of people in places such as Madagascar and Haida Gwaii to find win - win solutions that restore and enhance marine biodiversity and support local food security is another.

Here, though, is an excellent argument for restoring grasslands, replete with data, given by Tony Lovell in 2009: http://permaculturenews.org/2012/11/10/tony-lovell-on-soil-carbon-putting-carbon-back-where-it-belongs-in-the-earth-tedx-video/

We don't need to be taking 3 steps back to move 2 steps forward, when restoring a grassland is just a direct 2 steps forward without any negative side effects... a win win for everyone.

So even a few percentage points increase in storage of carbon in by restoring grasslands and forests and / or reduction of fires and deforestation would cancel out a significant portion of the increasing CO2 levels.

3) Changing agriculture to regenerative organic methods and restoring grasslands instead of overproducing corn and soy.

We can completely scrap a huge % of commodity crops altogether and restore the grasslands ecosystems, raising or animals foods directly off that!

Conservationists and ranchers will work together to use cattle grazing, prairie dogs and reseeding to restore the grasslands.

Restoring grasslands is essential for a livable climate.

Confront Deforestation and Promote Carbon Sequestration: Obama will develop domestic incentives that reward forest owners, farmers, and ranchers when they plant trees, restore grasslands, or undertake farming practices that capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

On a larger scale, communities and even corporations are doing their part to create areas of restored prairies which in turn will store organic carbon in the soil and help maintain the biodiversity of 3000 plus species that count on the grasslands for food and shelter.

Boal wants to find a way to estimate how many eagle chicks can be produced by restoring a certain amount of land to native grassland that eagles can hunt in.

Revive & Restore plays a role in this story, introducing George Church to the extraordinary Russian scientist Sergey Zimov, who has started a project in northern Siberia called «Pleistocene Park,» which is using wild grazing animals to generate climate - stabilizing grasslands.

Since the late 1990s we have been actively involved in restoring the black - footed ferret to grasslands in New Mexico, South Dakota, and Kansas.

Conservationists have worked for decades to restore and maintain globally - rare sandplain grasslands and heathlands on the Massachusetts Islands.

We will need to restore a large % of grasslands though.

per year now and increasing] that would seem to indicate that any system that could restore «At Scale» some of that GtC back to the land (eg SOC sequestration) and vegetation (eg forests and grasslands) would be a winner idea — passing basic cost benefit evaluations of course.

to clean energy; yes to dense, beautiful, and affordable communities; yes to safer streets for everyone from children to the elderly; yes to a walkable, bikable, transit - rich transportation system; yes to electric vehicles, internet - speed ride sharing, and the smart grid; yes to wind, solar, and ultra-efficiency; yes to innovation and science and solutions we haven't even imagined yet; yes to restored, carbon - absorbing grasslands, to oceans no longer endangered by acidification, and to towering Northwest forests regrown to once again capture vast quantities of carbon.

This practice restores degraded grasslands by using livestock as a proxy for the wild herds that the great plains and savannas of the world evolved with.

But what makes Plan B significant and timely is that it provides hopeful solutions — a road map that will help eradicate poverty, stabilize population, and protect and restore our planet's fisheries, forests, aquifers, soil, grasslands, and biological diversity.

Some castigated the Tompkins for taking land out of production — logging and sheep and cattle ranching — and eliminating the jobs those industries produced in favor of restoring what the Tompkins considered degraded grasslands and forests.