Sentences with phrase «timber plantations»

The Federal government has sought to allay community concerns about tree farms - which have jumped 20 per cent in five years in Western Australia to reach almost 400,000 hectares - releasing a report on the impact of timber plantation.
In Indonesia, for example, 9 million hectares have been allocated for development as industrial timber plantations, but only 2 million hectares have been replanted.
In the south - west, he said values for former timber plantations were finally starting to turn around, having weathered the collapse of management investment schemes and costly land remediations.
«They just decided to table that until next time,» said Gus Silva - Chávez, a negotiator with the Environmental Defense Fund in Washingon, D.C. Same, probably, with the worry by some scientists that funds for REDD might incentivize the cutting down of forests to turn them into timber plantations.
Today, 97 % of this has been impaired or altered and most coastal redwoods now grow on protected second and third growth forests or managed timber plantations.
Each year hundreds of thousands of hectares of peatlands are drained and cleared for oil palm and timber plantations on Indonesia and Malaysia.
«Borneo is a network of timber plantations, agro-forestry areas and mines, with patches of natural forest,» said Loken.
The probability of being deforested was found to be lower within forest concessions or industrial timber plantations than in other locations outside concessions.
Most of the fires are the result of slash - and - burn practices — a cheap way to clear land and destroy native forests for palm oil and timber plantations.
In deforested areas, layers of peat — sometimes dozens of meters deep — become flammable as they dry out, which is sometimes exacerbated by deliberate draining in order to make them more suitable for palm oil and timber plantations.
Delicious meals are served on a spacious wooden deck which has a magical view of timber plantations and sand dunes.
Industrial timber plantations could provide a way for Ethiopia to reduce rural unemployment and conserve natural forests.
«The fires are burning in plantation forests where they may have been set purposely in rotation as a method of boosting crop production on oil palm plantations and timber plantations — a practice known as swidden — or slash - and - burn agriculture,» writes CIFOR's Julie Mollins in a blog post.
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