Sentences with phrase «restoring areas of land»

Other developed countries are contributing $ 4bn over the next five years to the Great Green Wall Initiative — restoring areas of land in the Sahara and Sahel, and making it capable of storing vast quantities of climate - warming greenhouse gases.

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1) Conserved natural ecosystems; 2) Areas being restored to natural ecosystems; 3) Tree cover within agroforestry or silvopastoral production plots2; 4) Gardens, live fences, riparian zones or border plantings; or 5) Off - site compensation areas, including land held in common by farmer groups that is not part of individual member faAreas being restored to natural ecosystems; 3) Tree cover within agroforestry or silvopastoral production plots2; 4) Gardens, live fences, riparian zones or border plantings; or 5) Off - site compensation areas, including land held in common by farmer groups that is not part of individual member faareas, including land held in common by farmer groups that is not part of individual member farms3.

The land in these areas is in transition; it is in the process of being restored with agro-forestry systems using coffee as the principal crop.

A 1.3 - acre property on Gary Avenue next to the Lincoln Marsh Natural Area will be restored as open space as part of a long - term land preservation effort undertaken by the Conservation Foundation and the Wheaton Park District.

More generally, the strategy sets a number of goals: cutting overwintering bee colony losses to 15 % (from roughly 30 % in recent years) by 2025, restoring nearly 3 million hectares of land for pollinators in 5 years, and boosting monarch populations in a key wintering area in Mexico to 225 million by 2020 (roughly four times as high as now).

«Together with a 50 - hectare permanent plot in the Danum valley conservation area and the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, the SAFE project means that we can now study the entire gamut of land use in the region, from pristine forest to fragmented forest and restored forest, to oil palm plantation.

Areas that have restored water sheds by filling canals and replanting trees indicate a cooling trend, unless of course you use Berkeley Earth:) so it stands to reason that there has been a significant land use impact on climate.

Going hand - in - hand with efforts to reduce deforestation, urgent action is needed to restore the planet's vast areas of degraded land back to productivity.

Our Wild Places Program protects both public and private land from a myriad of destructive practices and restores previously damaged areas.

Brazil will restore 12 million hectares of forest by 2030, increasing the footprint of land reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by an area slightly larger than Pennsylvania or about the size of England.

These include the establishment of effective protected areas that would encompass a significant proportion of terrestrial, aquatic and aerial habitats, halting the degradation of forests and other native land cover and restoring those that have already been degraded; shifting diets to plant - based foods; reducing fertility rates by ensuring access to family planning services; and developing new green technologies.

Specifically, areas the authors suggest focusing on are restoring formerly forested land, preventing loss of existing forests, improving forestry and livestock management practices, using smarter application of chemical fertilizers and supporting agroforestry, and preventing the draining and conversion of wetlands — most prominently for palm oil cultivation.