Sentences with phrase «tree plantation»

Could a monoculture tree plantation act as biotic pump?

Today, Ona's fight to expose Olam's environmentally destructive rubber tree plantation projects continues: «Development strategies can not be imposed on a people without their advice.

59 down from rig for deep ocean disposal Abandoned oil field Crop field Spent oil reservoir is used for Crop field Tanker delivers CO2 from plant to rig Coal power plant Oil rig Tree plantation CO2 is pumped down from rig for deep ocean disposal Abandoned oil field Crop field Switchgrass CO2 deposit CO2 is pumped down to reservoir through abandoned oil field Figure 20.15 Solutions: methods for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or from smokestacks and storing (sequestering) it in plants, soil, deep underground reservoirs, and the deep ocean.

55 Fig. 20 - 15, p. 482 Tree plantation Coal power plant Tanker delivers CO2 from plant to rig Oil rig CO2 is pumped down from rig for deep ocean disposal Spent oil reservoir is used for CO 2 deposit Abandoned oil field Crop field Spent oil reservoir is used for Crop field Switchgrass = CO2 deposit = CO2 pumping CO 2 deposit CO2 is pumped down to reservoir through abandoned oil field

This second tree plantation, also called Bulderbos, is located right next to the new runway and is still maintained by volunteers to this day.

In contrast to grain yields, which tend to rise with distance from the equator and the longer summer growing days, tree plantation yields rise with proximity to the equator and year - round growing conditions.

This morning I had breakfast with Chuck Leavell, another Georgian whose career veered in a similar way — in his case from playing piano for the Allman Brothers and Rolling Stones to managing a 2,500 - acre tree plantation and co-creating the Mother Nature News Web site.

Thank you for your message and its wonderful that you want to plant a tree, but please be informed that, we have stop the tree plantation for a while because we still searching for new place to plant the tree in our forest.

Inland, between Chong Lad and Klong Hia piers, you'll find the island's best views atop the Ko Yao Viewpoint, reached via a steep pathway that the landowner Khun Coco hacked out from his rubber tree plantation.

Located on the beautiful island of Koh Mak, Bamboo Hideaway is a cosy, boutique style resort built in an aging rubber tree plantation using natural materials.

The best of all is the laid - back, authentic rural style of San Juan de la Isla, which is set inside the Finca San Juan, a tropical fruit tree plantation surrounded by precious wood trees and rare wildlife.

Located in the middle of the island and surrounded by a cool shaded coconut tree plantation.

At the end of a forgotten palm tree plantation, tucked between a bird filled estuary and the glistening Pacific ocean lies an untouched stretch of Mexican Riviera Nayarit paradise we call home.

Kita surf resort seats in front of a small white sand beach in the middle of a coconut tree plantation.

As we are located on a coconut tree plantation you'll always get a fresh coconut in the morning as well.

This beach is not a stretch of a long beach but rather a secluded beach flanked on both sides by hills and coconut tree plantation on the background.

After hours of swimming, we rode habal - habals through steep hillsides until we reached a coconut tree plantation.

If you're not desperate for a beachfront spot, then try Hill House, found in a shaded rubber - tree plantation setting up a steep hill from Tha Khao beach.

Sino - Forest manages tree plantations in China, sells logs and standing timber and manufactured engineered - wood products.

During the day they filter into the sweet coolness of cedar swamps or into the rows of the vast Christmas tree plantations.

Tree plantations draw the wrath of farmers and ranchers who see the practice driving up land prices

Tree plantations can also cause other problems in soils, such as making them more acidic.

«If we can reduce water usage on poplar - tree plantations by adding naturally occurring endophytes, then that could provide huge economic and environmental benefits.»

The UN considers tree plantations as forests, and therefore oil palm and other plantations can benefit from carbon credits.

SciDevNet — The initiative known as Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is focusing on eight priority areas — self - sufficiency in rice, intensification of cassava, food security in the Sahel, transforming savannas as a breadbasket, restoring tree plantations, expanding horticulture, increasing wheat production and expanded fish farming.

Another benefit is that there are no baobab tree plantations; each tree is community - owned and wild - harvested.

Today, Palestyle employs around 100 refugee women with embroidery jobs and has benefited more than 4000 refugees with social projects like a water tank exchange program and the construction of olive tree plantations.

The wilderness surrounding the dam is diverse, including dense rainforest, pine tree plantations and Australian scrub.

It has a fairly low lying terrain compared to the surrounding islands, with an interior full of rubber and coconut tree plantations.

A short drive from Queensland's capital, Brisbane, or from the busy throng of the coast will take you through pine - tree plantations, fertile farmlands, past classic weatherboard Queenslander houses, and colourful roadside fruit stalls.

The luxury facilities and private services at the Majapahit include the private 24 meter beachside buff with its lush wooden decking and sky lining coconut tree plantations.

Trust us, you'll hardly notice that Gili Air is a little greener, or that there's more coconut tree plantations on one island than another.

When the French brought hevea (rubber tree) seeds from Brazil to Indochina, rubber tree plantations became central to the Cambodian's mythology.

It allows for monoculture tree plantations, which reduce employment, biodiversity, and the locals» ability to survive from the forest.

In the far north, reports the Proceedings Of The National Academy of Science, tree plantations can do more climatic harm than good:

Tree plantations and degraded forests, logged or otherwise, have far lower carbon stocks and carbon - storage capacity than primary forests, and suffer from severe biodiversity loss, according to forest and climate experts from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance.

While planting trees for bioenergy would no doubt lead to an uptick in ozone pollution, it should be noted that burning fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — is generally seen as a larger and graver contributor to air pollution than tree plantations.

El Álamo tree plantations have been FSC Certified by the Rainforest Alliance since 2002, and the company recently achieved Rainforest Alliance Certification ™ for its production of apples, grapes and blueberries.

- Sustainable on paper (2011): The film documents why many FSC certified tree plantations are controversial.

Some propose that hundreds of millions of hectares of the Earth's surface be turned into industrial tree plantations to produce charcoal to bury, even claiming this biochar could absorb enough carbon to return to pre-industrial carbon dioxide levels.

Tree plantations produce mostly wood for paper mills or for wood reconstitution mills.

Industrial tree plantations, such as those now covering much of the previously forested southeastern U.S. are ecologically depauperate and depend on large inputs of fertilizers and agrichemicals.

And nearly all new tree plantations are established on abandoned croplands, which are already abundant and accessible.

We have found a partner who is growing tree plantations throughout Nicaragua and then sustainably harvesting those trees to create finished furniture.

WASHINGTON, DC (17 February 2015)-- More than 30 percent of wood used by Indonesia's industrial forest sector1 stems from the unreported clear - cutting of natural forests and other illegal sources instead of legal tree plantations and well - managed logging concessions, 2 according to a new study analyzing Indonesian Ministry of Forestry and timber industry data to assess the sustainability of the country's booming pulp and paper industry.

Biochar from tree plantations would be the necessary next step: In theory (if Homo S «Sapiens» decides to get serious) 1 - 2 Gt C could be sequestered as char per year.

Instead of allowing for new mills to be built, it would be advisable for Indonesia to hold future expansion of the pulp and paper industry until they successfully increase the number of tree plantations.»

China has the largest area of tree plantations in the world, with more than 53 million hectares planted since the 1980s.

Land cover data was problematic in certain geographies due to the presence of tree plantations.

Tree cover gain may indicate a number of potential activities, including natural forest growth or the crop rotation cycle of tree plantations.