Sentences with phrase «swamp forest»

Fauna and Flora International (FFI) said that Sinar Mas and First Borneo Group are involved in the West Kalimantan project, which is based in a 90,000 - hectare tract of carbon - dense peat swamp forest in Kupuas Hulu.

Photo Credit: Two members of Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari walk through the bush at the healthy part of Tripa peat swamp forest in Nagan Raya, Aceh province, Indonesia, October 1, 2012.

There are over 13 identified vegetation types within the extension of Corcovado National Park including montane forests, cloud forests filled with oak trees and ferns and the jolillo forest with beautiful palms, prairie forest and swamp forest.

The country's now third - largest protected area in St Lucia includes Lake St Lucia and spans 280 km of coastline, a natural ensemble of lakes, swamp forest, ancient coastal dunes, and an estuarine system, with World Heritage status.

There is a timber boardwalk that runs through the swamp forest; providing a very easy walk through the colony of palms.

The warm coast between Mtunzini and Richard's Bay as well as the swamp forest at the bottom of Eshowe.

A swamp forest, mangroves, lakes, a feast of animals that include the Big 5, sea turtles and humpback whales translates into hiking, fishing, deep sea diving, game viewing or boating, when you are not resting.

LAST September, deep in the swamp forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nahoko Tokuyama of Kyoto University in Japan heard a scream.

In the study, published on October 14 in PLOS ONE, Rutgers researchers found that the density of Bornean orangutans is almost two times greater in an Indonesian peat - swamp forest — just 39 miles from similar surroundings where orangutans must survive on thousands of calories less each day for most of the year.

Last April, Pfefferkorn and Wang, a paleobotanist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, described the full magnitude of the find: an entire swath of ancient swamp forest frozen in time beneath more than 20 square miles of volcanic ash.

In the tropics, where swamp forests are filled with large, leafy trees, blankets of peat are typically built up by decayed woody plants.

Now paleobiologist Conrad Labandeira at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., has found signs of an insect larva that apparently resided within tree - fern fronds in the swamp forests of Illinois some 300 million years ago.

The research team around Marzec had been following a population of Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbill) in the swamp forests of Indonesia's Mawas Reserve since 2003 and already collected over 26,000 hours of information on the adult females alone when they observed the fatal attack in July 2014.

Also present in the ancient swamp forests of central Mongolia were a variety of extinct plants thought to be early conifers, but that have no clear living relatives.

The researchers also found that certification did not affect fire occurrence in these plantations or the amount of carbon - rich peat swamp forests cleared and drained for oil palm.

Lush swamp forests fringed the Arctic, inhabited by turtles, alligators, primates, tapirs, and the hippo - like Coryphodon (just as the myth claims).

Most of the world's wetlands are peat, which are better known as bogs, moors, mires, and swamp forests.

In the swamp forests of Kibale National Park, Uganda, every step elephants take can give rise to a footprint - shaped mini-pond, holding up to 200 liters of water and dozens of invertebrate species.

A patchwork of lake systems, the bulk of the country's remaining swamp forests, Africa's largest estuarine system, 25 000 year - old coastal dunes, 220 km of beach, coastal forest, grasslands, coral reefs and a rich underwater life combine to make the park one of the country's most popular destinations.

We are in the heart Zululand, a diving and cultural paradise, home to golden beaches, fertile swamp forests, and lush wetlands, protected fauna and flora and dolphins playing in the surf.

It has at least 12 different habitats within the park including: mangroves, swamps, swamps forests, saltwater and freshwater lagoons and marshes.

In contrast, RED would be more effective in terms of its conservation impact if payments were extended to all remaining carbon - rich tropical forests, including lowland peat swamp forests, the preferred habitat for dense populations of orangutans, and if the construction of new roads was halted.

But drainage and destruction of these ecosystems is responsible for large amounts of carbon emissions (40 tons of carbon per hectare per year for drained tropical swamp forests) as well as degradation of the other services they provide.

Enviva responds that its operations are in reality protecting swamp forests, because if they weren't harvested, the land would be cleared and drained for agriculture.

Peat swamp forests lost the highest percentage of cover, declining 19.7 percent.

Peat swamp in Malaysian Borneo Long considered an unproductive hindrance to growth and development, peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia have been systematically cleared, drained and burned away to make...

Not exact matches

The aviary exhibits five native Florida ecosystems; coastal prairie, mangrove swamp, cypress forest, sub-tropical hardwood hammock, and sawgrass prairie.

Yet it seems bizarre to try to account wholly for the value of a forest or a swamp by itemizing and adding up the values of all individual members.

They acquired ground already domesticated or themselves undertook to fell the forests or drain the swamps.

Mass Audubon's oldest and largest wildlife sanctuary, encompassing forests, fields, and wetlands with diverse hiking trails and a red maple swamp boardwalk.

«Our farm is part of a network of forest, fields, wetlands, and swamps that is lucky to be adjacent to Mass Audubon,» the Stimsons added.

It lies along the northern boundary of the approximately 3,300 - acre Bear Swamp State Forest in the Cayuga County town of Sempronius.

-- The state has purchased 147 acres in the Skaneateles Lake watershed which will be added to the Bear Swamp State Forest in Cayuga County.

Other trails take you to scenic ridges, through forests of twisting koa trees, and up to one of Bogue's favorite spots: the Alakai Swamp, where rare native birds like the scythe - beaked Hawaiian honeycreeper flit around above shallow bogs.

Less than a half - mile away, a logging crew was plowing a path through the forest, creating massive ground vibrations and swamping the gear that normally nullifies the noise.

Scientists only found this species in forest areas, and if palm oil plantations continue to take over, the peat swamp frog, along with its forest home, could be a thing of the past.

Western red cedar doesn't grow in saltwater; these trees had presumably been killed when forest meadows subsided following an earthquake and were swamped with saltwater.

Nearby highway traffic, waves lapping at the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, or a tree falling in the forest near the Louisiana site can all swamp the gravitational waves.

The scenes change and include an enchanted forest, a swamp owned by a friendly alligator called Barry, a fairground, and a secret laboratory.

The rest is imported, produced from wood from tropical forests and mangrove swamps that are not managed sustainably.

They range from steamy lowland jungles, swamps, and floodplains to cloud forests, alpine grasslands, and glaciers capping mountains more than 16,000 feet high.

Landfills, cattle, rice paddies, swamps, forest fires, and oil and gas production wells are some of the biggest sources of methane leakage into the atmosphere.

The scientists collected a diverse sample of soils from cornfields, forests, swamps, even the Boston Public Garden.

Sago palm is commonly found in tropical lowland forests and freshwater swamps.

Floodplain forests and river shore grasslands dot the lower reaches, while high - elevation swamps, shale barrens and stands of dwarf oak mark the highland places.

The adventurous among you may find yourselves strapping on an undersea helmet and strolling through a submarine kelp forest or wielding a Geiger counter in a field strewn with remnants of the atomic era, while those traveling with the family can swing by the bayou for a relaxed but rewarding swamp - by - boat tour.

Constructed between 1987 and 1991, Biosphere 2 was a 3.14 - acre sealed greenhouse containing a miniature rain forest, a desert, a little ocean, a mangrove swamp, a savanna, and a small farm.

At the tail end of the Paleozoic Era, dragonflies with two - foot wingspans cruised through swamps, and five - foot - long millipedes crawled along the forest floors.

UNESCO calls it «the top African National Park for biological diversity ``, and says its habitats — ranging from icy mountaintops to swamps, savannahs and forests — «surpass those of any other African park ``.

One of the more popular characters from the Shrek franchise steps into the starring spotlight here, in an adventure whose locale is rather different from the familiar swamp - forest - castle fairy - tale settings of the parent films.