Sentences with phrase «sacred forests protect»

Not exact matches

In the Forest Service case, Native Americans challenged the government's refusal to protect their sacred lands from logging operations.

Mr Pascal Benson Atiglah, Project Coordinator of Accelerated Rural Development Organization a non-governmental organization, focused on sustainable environmental management, said his outfit was reviving and protecting fast depleting forests and 30 sacred groves in the Volta Region.

China's national protected area system has expanded greatly in recent years, but the areas are typically remote, at higher elevations and ineffectively managed, while sacred forests are closer to centers of human land use, at lower - elevations and managed effectively at the community level.

The sacred forests have effectively protected old - growth trees from clear - cutting for centuries despite major upheavals in the region's history, including the logging era and the Cultural Revolution.

In the afternoon we go and meet some of Ubud's cheekiest locals at the sacred monkey forest where it is believed the hundreds of monkey's that live there protect the ancient temples inside.

It's packed with specifics (which is the essence of powerful storytelling) as he tells about how «forest monks» in Cambodia are more effective at protecting forests by making them sacred than any U.N. resolution could hope to be.