Sentences with phrase «threatened by deforestation»

To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, it will be necessary to ensure that all existing forest stocks are conserved and enhanced, not just forests that are currently threatened by deforestation.

Giant pandas are threatened by deforestation and changes in the distribution of bamboo.

Most of the species live in trees and are threatened by deforestation.

It may have been found in the nick of time: the bird's habitat is threatened by deforestation and Ridgely and others have now launched a campaign to raise enough money to buy the land on which the bird lives.

Along with three colleagues, Kendon runs an intensive care unit for orchids, ferns and other shrubs threatened by deforestation, climate change, over-zealous collectors and volcanic eruptions.

Not exact matches

Also in January, the nonprofit group Reptile & Amphibian Ecology International (RAEI) announced that an expedition to the rain forests of coastal Ecuador had found new reptiles, insects, and amphibians whose habitat is threatened by climate change and deforestation.

«The habitats of many chameleon species, and not only, are highly threatened by the ongoing deforestation in Madagascar and we need rapidly to expand our knowledge about the biodiversity, so that suitable conservation measures can be taken,» he stresses.

Los Katios National Park was placed on the Danger List at the request of Colombia so as to help mobilize international support for the preservation of the property which is threatened by, notably, deforestation in areas inside and around the property due to the illegal extraction of timber.

Currently, inefficiencies in food and farming systems threaten tropical forests by increasing the demand for the drivers of deforestation.

Deforestation of tropical forests in the world's southern hemisphere is threatening world food production by distorting rainfall patterns across the rest of the globe, a study has indicated.

Here in the United States, farmers are pulling land out of the federal conservation program, threatening fragile habitats... Most troubling, though, is that the higher food prices caused in large part by food - to - fuel mandates create incentives for global deforestation, including in the Amazon basin.

The «Man of the Hole», in many ways, offers a face to a region threatened by encroaching development and deforestation from ranchers and farmers.

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Considering forest - threatening factors such as fires, deforestation, and the emission of greenhouse gases, the research found if the regions of the Amazon most crucial to maintaining the biome's climate are lost, large sections of the once lush rainforest may be reduced to a virtual desert.According to a report from Globo Amazônia, the study conducted by Gilvan Sampaio of National Institute of Special Research (INPE) found that the vegetation of the Amazon will be particularly impacted by rising global temperatures in the years to come, in addition to the continued threats posed by deforestation and fires.

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«If rainfall is reduced even further as a result of deforestation, it could threaten the survival of the remaining forest by increasing the trees» sensitivity to drought.»