Sentences with phrase «vast forest with»

We drive for many kilometers through a vast forest with pine trees and spruces as far as the eye can see.
St. Edwards Park is surrounded by vast forest with several natural water features, including a creek, waterfall and breathtaking high elevation views.

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The public can comprehend the devastation of a catastrophic wildfire that torches vast stands of trees, leaves a scorched forest floor littered with wildlife carcasses and turns dancing streams into oozes of mud and ash.
It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.
In Germany, with vast tracts of forest, the Forest Fire Danger Index hit its highest possible forest, the Forest Fire Danger Index hit its highest possible Forest Fire Danger Index hit its highest possible level.
Tropical forests and savannas exchange vast amounts of energy and matter with their surroundings and, as such, contribute to the local and global climate.
The vast magnificent savanna, forests, wooded savannas, and deep rivers habitats remain largely intact with potential for recovery of wildlife populations if urgent and robust conservation security measures are taken in this strategic area, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), ECOFAUNE + / AGRECO, and the Ministry of Environment of Central African Republic said in a report issued today.
No one — not Dos Santos or any of the other villagers of Barra do São Manuel, a tiny settlement on the banks of the Tapajós River deep in the Brazilian Amazon, or anyone else in the vast rain forest — relishes facing it, with or without shotgun in hand.
Working mostly out of the Arctic Institute's Kluane Lake Research Station in Yukon, the U of T Scarborough Biology Professor has become intimately familiar with Canada's vast and unique boreal forest ecosystem.
Play time — and rest assured, there's plenty of that — is split once again between the deserts, forests and caves that supply not only hunt targets but also a vast assortment of raw materials (of course, one generally equals the other), and a hub village where you temper the weapons, shape the armour and concoct the many, many items that (might) enable you to come off best in an encounter with a crocodile made of magma.
Surrounded by northwest Montana's endless landscape — with its vast, overgrown valleys, winding trout streams, ancient forest, and snow - capped mountain ranges — this remote retreat was an idyllic setting for the hunting lodge and horse farm that were first built here.
Obviously, the vast majority of tropical rain forest and desert denizens are out of the question, except for many of the arachnids, which tend to be nocturnal and adjust very well to tanks with a limited and low - level heat source, such as an under - tank heater.
Nestling in Europe's northeast corner is Lithuania, a country filled with baroque architecture, vast lakes and lush forests.
Vast African plains interspersed with granite kopjes, rivers, the Lebombo Mountains in the east, and a series of forests in the far north, dawn game drives, thatched roof accommodation and the eerie night chatter of hyenas or wild dogs on the prowl make this a firm favourite of any visit to the Limpopo.
As the biggest Scandinavian country, it is blessed with long coastal areas, thousands of lakes, vast green forests, and majestic snow - covered mountains, there are so many charming places to visit in Sweden.
Vancouver Island has seemingly endless amounts of untouched wilderness, with vast lakes, dense forests and incredible backdrops to be found wherever you go, making it a hiker's paradise.
It's the perfect place to Share the beautiful beaches, lush rain forests, and vast lava fields with your kids.
Come with us to Cape Scott Provincial Park and hike through an old growth forest and emerge onto a vast sandy beach.
Vast swathes of dense rainforest, misty cloud forest and volcanic cones squeeze into this compact country, each dripping with tropical life, including three - toed sloths, howler monkeys and brightly billed toucans.
Although Belize is a small country, it makes up for its lack of size with its incredibly diverse landscape including the vast mountains, waterfalls, jungles, rain forests, beaches, wetlands, and Savannah.
This contrasts with the vast mangrove forests in Hinchinbrook Channel, and the rugged vegetated mountains and lush rainforest gullies that are periodically cloud - covered on Hinchinbrook Island.
The grounds at Kilauea Lodge, complete with gazebo and vast lawns, are the perfect setting for an outdoor Hawaiian wedding surrounded by lush green tropical forests.
It's a country of diverse natural beauty including lovely rolling hills covered in tea plantations, vast plains, hundreds of miles of coastline with beaches, and lush forests.
Even beneath the vast sky of this major Amazon tributary we glimpse the diversity of the riverine environment, with its forest - capped red - earth cliffs, alternating with low banks thick with Cecropia trees and giant grasses.
It is an excellent dive region in its own right with fabulous soft coral coverage, vast forests of black coral, big schools of fish, epaulette sharks, turtles, whale sharks, pilot whales and more.
Guided excursions through the valleys of Paro, Thimphu, Punakha, Phobjikha and Bumthang offer the chance to experience a remote kingdom, with vast forests, dramatic inclines and 7,000 - metre peaks.
The hotel sits on a vast tract of lowland coastal forest, teeming with spectacular and rare wildlife.
The immediate surroundings of this Bali Sally private villas are of vast green paddy fields, scattered trees and some remaining forest, Balinese settlements, rivers, and wild beaches with frequently strong and powerful surf, currents, and sparkling black sand that feels ever so soft beneath the bare foot.
So much of this vast country is blessed with an abundance of beautiful national monuments, parks, and forests.
Moonpath to Elsweyr takes you to the Khajit's homeland with vast jungles to explore and new enemies to battle like forest queen spiders, river crabs and whatnot along with featuring its own quests.
Soon, Adol finds himself beginning a new journey with an unknown companion as they delve into the forest on a quest to explore its vast expanses, searching for clues to his identity along the way.
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So far we've seen verdant forest settings and a spectacularly detailed underwater mission, complete with coral reefs and vast schools of fish, ducking beneath the Spec Ops divers as they stalk an enemy ship.
It's a challenge sustaining this kind of awareness, similar to that of Brazil engaging its southern urban residents with its vast Amazon rain forest.
After many interviews with biologists and climate scientists focused on the Amazon, as well as people like Bruce Babbitt, the former United States secretary of the interior who has spent a lot of time crisscrossing the Amazon, I remain convinced that there is a path to development for Brazil — even with the growing global appetite for soy and biofuels and roads to the Pacific — that can preserve a large fraction of the vast forest region.
Fracking opened up vast swaths of once - quiet forest and farmland to the constant grinding of truck traffic heading to drilling rigs that operate all day and night, poisoning the air with diesel fumes and sometimes spilling toxic drilling fluids onto fields and into streams.
With PEFC's vast experience in providing cost - effective certification solutions for small forest owners, we are compelled to transfer this expertise to Southeast Asia where robust models for affordable group certification are drastically needed.
Another important element raised by the opinion is the need for the Suruí to secure financial returns that are compatible with the environmental services provided by managing the vast forest on Suruí land, and to provide transparent and price competitive proceedings for the commercialization of the credits, which will be in alignment with Brazil's overall national sovereign interest.
Vast forests replaced with cropland or barren tracts of stumps.
The country has vast tracts of pasture and agricultural land that are being underutilized or have been abandoned, but rapidly appreciating land prices, coupled with poor governance and inconsistent enforcement of environmental laws, means that it is often more profitable to clear new forest land than to rehabilitate pasture.
After a century of suppression, a photograph of the same area from 1981 (Figure 1D below) shows a vast expanse of interconnected forest with a high fuel load now dominating landscape and primed for a huge fire.
Latin name: Picea engelmannii I worked considerably in the spruce - fir forests of southern Arizona in my earliest years in dendrochronology, and learned that trees with limited sensitivity can provide a vast amount of information on the history of these forests.
However, for the remainder of the Phanerozoic ca was less than 1000 ppm, consistent with the emergence of global forests that captured and sequestered vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere [Berner, 2003].
«With lifetimes of hands - on experience drawn from across vast tracts of Amazon rainforest, Indigenous groups are well - placed to provide leadership in efforts to measure and monitor their forests - forests which they, themselves, have sustainably managed for centuries,» said WHRC Assistant Scientist Wayne Walker.
Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].
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