Sentences with phrase «to protect one's forests»

This commitment is aimed at stopping ongoing deforestation and protecting forests in the cocoa - growing regions where the company sources its cocoa.

This area has a huge passion for the protection of the national parks system which makes the place unique for its hundreds of acres of protected forest.

Safe water solutions can reduce the number of people boiling water, helping tackle climate change by cutting carbon emissions and protecting forests from deforestation.

Some strategies for protecting forests and wildlife, such as protected areas and community forestry, have become immensely popular around the world.

Instead, most carbon would be stored by protecting forests, adopting no - till farming practices, and taking other climate - friendly approaches to land stewardship.

A: There are a number of different approaches that can be used to meet food needs while protecting forests.

A number of firms have applied for mining permits in protected forest areas.

Key to the project's success is the ability to demonstrate that protecting forest resources can be both socially and environmentally beneficial, thus the revenues from carbon finance are critical.

In order to effectively protect their forests, indigenous peoples and local communities need a few key rights.

If she succeeds then a whole new tourist industry will be born, as well as a good financial reason to protect the forest home of one of humankind s closest relations.

Either way, wildlife managers can only protect the forest by battling public opinion.

The program did not work as planned, but still prevented deforestation because participants invested in protecting forests even when not required to do so.

That allows scientists to learn how they adapt to climate change and what greater role those lands can play in reducing atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions, especially protecting forests.

The idea of supporting countries to protect their forests sounds simple.

We've seen the rise of rigorous policies protecting our forests, extensive supplier maps, and corporate sustainability boards in the past few decades.

Nine percent of the reserves accounted for 80 percent of the emissions from protected forest loss.

We believe it can continue to be grown as long as it's not inside protected forests.

In addition, a carbon market for avoided deforestation may not necessarily be the best way of protecting forests that yield other global ecosystem services.

There are smart ways for cities and towns to grow while protecting forests, farms, and water.

He joins forces with Poison Iy in helping protect a forest from burning down during a massive battle, it was believed he died along with Poison Ivy saving the forest.

As the Agriculture Secretary, Perdue would be responsible for overseeing programs to reduce carbon pollution from farms as well as protect forests from the impacts of climate change, particularly a notable increase in the length of wildfire season and the number of large fires.

Surprisingly, loss of woodlands tended to be higher in protected forest reserves compared with the larger Chobe District.

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.

For example, the soy and beef industry in Brazil thrived despite moratoria preventing deforestation, Vietnam expanded agricultural production and forest area simultaneously, and Costa Rica's well protected forests attract millions of ecotourists each year.»

The player is tasked with protecting the forest inhabitants from the incoming invaders using trees that are replaced by defense towers.

One recent Nature study, however, found there was substantial potential for sugarcane biofuel to expand in Brazil over the coming decades, while also protecting forests under conservation and accounting for increases in food and animal feed production.

Updated, Nov. 16, 12:07 p.m. One week ago, two members of a four - person team patrolling for illegal loggers and wildlife poachers in the Preah Vihear Protected Forest in northwestern Cambodia were shot and killed in their sleep, as Mongabay reported.

Ecuador, which has agreed to restore 500,000 hectares, has said it will offer farmers grants to replant and protect forests on their degraded lands.

Public lands protect forests, wildlife and biodiversity, as well as provide space for renewable energy development

Currently such projects fall under Article 14 of the constitution which protects Forest Preserve lands.

documents the illegal logging of land near protected forests in Indonesia by Bumitama Agri Group.

Jeff Conant directs Friends of the Earth's international forests program, which protects forests and the rights of forest - dependent peoples by addressing the economic drivers of forest destruction.

«Variable tree growth after fire protects forests from future bark beetle outbreaks.»

So, figuring out which segments of Sabah's forests contain the most carbon in the form of biomass is an important first step in helping the government of the Sabah meet its goal of increasing protected forests from 1.8 to 2.2 million hectares.

The country has put a lot of work into protecting their forests, and they are also a leaders in orangutan conservation.

The park protects forest of South America's Pacific Coast, which continues to be one of the world's most threatened habitats.

Parties are committed to protecting forests under Article 4.1 (d) of the Convention, however this commitment is not enough.

As the struggle continues to protect forests around the world, REDD + implementers should look to cultivate and strengthen institutions and mechanisms of accountability.

How do you know that REDD will not just be a temporary fix, but rather will protect forests permanently?

Most famously, the Constitution protected the Forest Preserve in the Catskills and Adirondacks so that they would be «forever wild.»

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Today the cry of the poor in the Narmada Valley in India is not only to preserve their own habitat but to protect forests everywhere from wanton destruction.

Moose Hill is Mass Audubon's oldest wildlife sanctuary, encompassing protected forests, fields, and wetlands.

Prof Peres said: «Fortunately Amazonian parks, sustainable - use reserves and indigenous territories now cover more than half of the Amazon basin, but these forest reserves should effectively protect the forest megafauna, rather than just the forest cover.

Allegretti and Mendes proposed this new type of conservation area that would — in theory — protect both forest diversity and the livelihoods of indigenous people.

In the 1960s he began acquiring tracts of jungle near Ooty to provide safe passage for elephants and tigers as they moved between protected forests.

Together the lowland Amazonian and sub-montane forests offer about 30 million hectares for potential new protected forest areas, which may be able to store close to 3 billion metric tons of carbon.