Sentences with phrase «timber extraction»

12.9 %: reduction in forest cover in South - East Asia due largely to an increase in timber extraction, large - scale bio-fuel plantations and the expansion of intensive agriculture and shrimp farms (1990 to 2015)

The impact of timber extraction makes it likely that the majority of mature hardwood trees of commercial value (Mahogany, Cedar, Santa Maria and Rosewood) have been removed.

Areas under forest management for timber extraction make up 40 % of the national forest area, while protected areas including national parks, forests reserves, and hunting zones currently cover 20 % of the national forest area.

This is because there is a higher risk of human interaction and persecution in areas where there are more farms, a greater pressure on natural resources through increased timber extraction and livestock grazing, and even competition for food from domestic animals kept as pets.»

The region's critical deforestation crisis is driven by population growth, unscrupulous timber extraction, and agricultural conversion — resulting in the loss of 9.3 percent of its forest cover from 2001 - 2009 alone.

«Tropical forest degradation has been entirely defined by REDD + programs in terms of highly detectable forms of human disturbance, such as timber extraction and wildfires.

It consists of forest patches that have been highly degraded by timber extraction, which are sewn into a landscape of palm oil plantations and human settlements.

Prof Peres added: «Intergovernmental policies to reduce carbon emissions from tropical countries have primarily focused on deforestation, and to a lesser extent on forest degradation resulting from timber extraction and wildfires.

The paper, titled Reconciling timber extraction with biodiversity conservation in tropical forests using reduced impact logging, is published in the current issue of the Journal of Applied Ecology.

Timber extraction occurs on 101,813 certified hectares of the RBCMA.

«The impacts of timber extraction, burning and fragmentation have received little notice because all the efforts have been focused on preventing further deforestation.

But only recently has the industrialized world realized the limits to timber extraction.

The research shows that much of the above - ground carbon stock of Amazonian forests could be lost if large - bodied fruit - eating mammals continue to be hunted out, and that over-hunting adds to the Amazon's many threats which include deforestation, timber extraction and wildfires.

One area of primary forest ended up having more than 300 tons of carbon per hectare, while areas of forest that had been burned or subjected to timber extraction had, at most, 200 tons per hectare and, on average, less than 100 tons of carbon per hectare.

The field research assessed scarring from burning, timber extraction and other disturbances.

Sadly, these unique, world - class resources are at risk due to poorly controlled road building, mining, timber extraction and poaching.

The term land use is also used in the sense of the social and economic purposes for which land is managed (e.g., grazing, timber extraction and conservation).

Moreover, a large proportion of deforestation is not taking place for subsistence agriculture, but for cattle ranching, oil palm plantations, timber extraction and other commercial enterprises — many of which are supplying raw materials to the rich world.

Indigenous control over development outcomes and natural resources has been upheld by United Nations committees in relation to resource and timber extraction.