Sentences with phrase «total area of forest»

Total area of forest certified according to independently verified forest management schemes, as reported in the 2015 Forest Resource Assessment by the FAO.

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He said: «In continuation of the counter insurgency, the air component in the last one month conducted 286 operational sorties against terrorists» targets from 25 December to date in the Sambisa forest covering an area of 157,000 km2 which is equivalent to the total land mass of South Korea, Portugal and Togo in a total of 536 hours, 21 minutes were flown by various platforms engaged in the operations, «This translates into 316,637.5 litres of aviation fuel which amounts to N60.3 million, excluding the cost of maintenance and armament expended.»

Scaling their findings up, Rezende and his colleagues estimate that former forest's total cleared area sends between 50,000 to 70,000 tonnes of dissolved black carbon to the marine environment.

They found that sacred forests support a richer collection of bird species and more total birds than the surrounding areas.

According to the MPOB, the government has committed to preserve 50 percent of Malaysia's total land area as forest.

Tropical and subtropical forests, with the greatest area of forested land, are home to 1.3 trillion trees, or 43 % of the total.

To this end, they collected all of the leaves from an area of ground measuring one square metre in 80 forests in Germany and on Sumatra (Indonesia) in order to examine the animals living there: primarily insects, spiders and snails; a total of over 12,000 individuals from almost 1,200 species.

«This is an enormous loss in relation to the small total area of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest,» the researcher said.

However, the total forest area has been declining dramatically in recent years — down from 70 percent of the land area in 1940.

Experts estimate that emissions from the degradation of mangroves can be as high as 10 % of total emissions from deforestation globally, even though mangroves account for only 0.7 % of tropical forest area *.

It's an enormous region of dry forests and shrubs that hosts jaguars, rare birds and thousands of unique plants and makes up about one - fifth of Brazil's total area.

The years with the earliest spring snowmelt, which was one - third of the total number of years we studied, account for more than 70 percent of the area burned in large forest wildfires, and 43 percent of the area burned in nonforest fires.

Costa Rica boasts 6 % of the world's total biodiversity and 23 % of the total land area in Costa Rica is now protected in natural wildlife refuges, biological preserves and Costa Rica National Parks, including Arenal Volcano and Costa Rica Cloud Forests.

In the Lodgepole / Giant Forest area of Sequoia National Park, the place to stay is Wuksachi Lodge, a complex of three buildings with a total of 102 guest rooms.

The county encompasses enormously varied terrain: nearly one - third of its total acreage is set aside in the Los Padres National Forest, which includes the rugged San Rafael Wilderness Area.

Covering a total area of 1 040 km ² (400 square miles or 257,000 acres), it has numerous freshwater inland lakes, coastal dunes, closed - canopy forests and large open plains.

The new - gen and PC versions of Grand Theft Auto 5 will include all 11 of the previously released Grand Theft Auto Online updates within Story Mode from day one, which includes a total of 29 vehicles and 12 weapons, new land, air, and sea vehicles, the ability to duck while driving, improved vehicle management at garages, and even special time and weather - based world particles, like fireflies in forest areas and experiencing mist in swamp areas.

Some large high severity fires occurred in these areas during the 1950s drought, and subsequent droughts, but the largest total areas burned in forests were an order of magnitude smaller than the largest fires today.

There is no area given that is strictly limited to the Brazilian portion of the rain forest but it can be easily approximated by subtracting about 1.5 m km2 from the total area, leaving about 4m km2 [4].

Buyer interest in offsets generated by protecting forests — thus avoiding deforestation emissions — tripled to total 24.7 million tonnes last year, with avoided deforestation projects now covering almost 20 million hectares, about the forest area of Malaysia.

Viet Nam has agreed to reduce 8 % of its GHG emissions (adding up to about 25 % if international support is to be received), and to increase forest cover to an overall level of 45 % of the total land area.

Around 30 % of the total land area is counted as forest, and better protection and better forestry practices could absorb 7bn tonnes of carbon dioxide a year by 2030, the authors say.

Like many other northern forest birds, Audubon's climate model indicates a significant shift and decrease in summer climate space — only 22 % of current range will remain stable, with a concurrent 41 % decrease in total summer area available.

The Midwest has a population of more than 61 million people (about 20 % of the national total) and generates a regional gross domestic product of more than $ 2.6 trillion (about 19 % of the national total).14 The Midwest is home to expansive agricultural lands, forests in the north, the Great Lakes, substantial industrial activity, and major urban areas, including eight of the nation's 50 most populous cities.

KEY FINDINGS Forests cover 31 percent of total land area The world's total forest area is just over 4 billion hectares, which corresponds to an average of 0.6 ha per capita (Figure 1).

Ten countries or areas have no forest at all and an additional 54 have forest on less than 10 percent of their total land area (Figure 2).

Mechanical thinning of ponderosa pine forests in the first analysis area of the 4FRI project — 6,190 ha / year for ten years totaling 61,900 ha (15,300 ac / year; 153,000 acres total)-- increased mean annual runoff from 3.13 million m3 (2,540 acre - feet) in a simulated drought to 7.27 million m3 (5,890 acre - feet) in a pluvial.

Based on a methodology developed in a previous study that estimated wood supply on four National Forests in northern Arizona [33], we subtracted from the total area of ponderosa pine in the watersheds — 0.68 million ha (1.68 million acres)-- those areas that are typically excluded from mechanical thinning projects due to steepness, restrictions in land management, previous treatments, or considerations of soil, habitat, or wildlife conditions (Table 1).

In ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests of central Arizona, stand densities range from 2 to 44 times greater than during pre-settlement conditions and total basal areas range from 2 to 4 times greater [1]--[3].

The following map indicates the productive forest area in relation to the total area of the countries.

Given that around a third of Britain is high moorland, if native coppice were established across 30 % of it, it would reforest about 2.5 Mha.s using about 6 billion saplings, bringing total forest area to ~ 22 %.

«The total annual loss of mangroves and seagrasses has the longterm carbon sequestration capacity of a tropical forest area similar to the annual deforestation rate in the Amazon,» writes Pidgeon.

From the formula, we can see that the carbon footprint area is essentially calculated by dividing total anthropogenic carbon emissions remaining after accounting for ocean uptake (i.e., 72 % of net human emissions) by the rate at which existing forests sequester carbon.

In order to provide a comprehensive view of family forestland, Forests in Focus will aggregate data from multiple sources, including from the US Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (FIA), which includes status and trends in forest area and location; in the species, size, and health of trees; in total tree growth, mortality, and removals by harvest; andForest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (FIA), which includes status and trends in forest area and location; in the species, size, and health of trees; in total tree growth, mortality, and removals by harvest; andForest Inventory and Analysis Program (FIA), which includes status and trends in forest area and location; in the species, size, and health of trees; in total tree growth, mortality, and removals by harvest; andforest area and location; in the species, size, and health of trees; in total tree growth, mortality, and removals by harvest; and more.

A quarter of the county's land has been designated as national park or protected area, and the country's constitution declares that there will always be at least 60 percent of its total area under forest cover.

The size of the property adequately ensures complete representations of habitats and ecological processes and the total area protected is larger than any other legally protected, single forest conservation area in mainland Southeast Asia.

Nearly 4 billion hectares of forest cover the earth's surface, roughly 30 percent of its total land area.

0.08 % might not sound like much, but when you consider the total area covered by forests around the world, a small fraction of a very big number is still a big number.

According to the three founders of Trump Forest, the total number of trees that would need to be planted is in the neighborhood of 10 billion, which is a daunting number, to say the least, and which would cover an area about the size of Kentucky, or some 37,000 square miles, if planted all in one location.

Planted forests now cover some 264 million hectares, comprising nearly 7 percent of total forest area.

Forest plantations now cover more than 187 million hectares, less than 5 percent of total forested area, but account for 20 percent of current world wood production.

Forests make up 78 % of Vermont's total area — that is 4.5 million acres.