deforestation

The only real achievement at Bali was a decision to set up a pilot project to investigate how to stop tropical deforestation (see article).

He finds it hard to believe that the sort of money needed to compensate for the loss of deforestation revenue would be forthcoming.

However it does seem that there is a link between high commodity prices and deforestation, with a lag of about a year (see chart).

However, Mr. Rojas said the rate of deforestation is still very high in many areas.

But despite this positive news, the UN said the rate of deforestation remained alarmingly high in many countries.

"This clearly shows that demand for gold and gold pricing might be another driver -- and a major driver -- of deforestation, " Pan said.

"The mudslide was caused by geology , but it was worsened by deforestation , " Dr. Qi says today . "I never expected such a huge slide . "

The Little Green Data Book 2007 shows that deforestation has essentially been a feature of the poorer countries.

Deforestation has traditionally been a major problem for farmers. Few trees remain to protect soil from floods, droughts and severe storms.

The probability of deforestation for a selectively logged area was up to four times greater than for intact forests.

Another possible reason that glaciers are melting is deforestation, which happens when trees are cut down in mass quantities.

Cutting deforestation, wild animals will be forced to leave the territory to survive, the pathogen directly or indirectly to humans.

Although bioethanol production releases a lower volume of greenhouse gases than petrol, critics say that it has encouraged deforestation.

Studies have been carried out on the relationships between rural poverty and deforestation and population growth and deforestation.

"We all agree [preventing deforestation] is possible, " Leonardo Swirski, head of Bertin's leather division, told the Guardian last night.

Deforestation is the second biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, after power generation, accounting for a fifth of the total.

Large-scale deforestation has taken place in the region which has made the wildlife homeless, with monkeys being the worst hit.

Deforestation of the Amazon, for instance, is of vital concern to all those who wish to continue breathing.

We also define the crime of deforestation and unlawful felling tree, and point out the difference between them. 2.

Stepped-up efforts to reduce deforestation are a welcome part of this, but there must be much more.

Professor Kauppi says the findings suggest the world may be able to reach a turning point away from deforestation.

The MPF said the investigated Brazilian companies could be to blame for illegal deforestation across 150, 000 hectares.

Agribusiness and financial services company Cargill Inc. worked with a similar group to meet anti-deforestation requirements in Brazil.

Scientists have already linked deforestation and dams to landslides in at least one other place.

Rainfall has decreased over the last century, and erosion from deforestation limits the ground's capacity to store rainwater.

The notion of reducing net deforestation to zero was not explicitly mentioned, but it looks much more credible than it did two years ago.

They also studied the threat of deforestation by looking at satellite imagery showing the rate of illegal logging.

Political enlightenment and an economic boom have led to great progress in the Amazon rainforest, with Brazil's deforestation plummeting.

Civil war, deforestation, and poaching have all but obliterated the gorilla population of the Congo Basin, for instance, and the U.

This goal can be achieved by ending deforestation (on a net basis) and by cutting our current fossil-fuel-based emissions by one third.

The most important is to be able to measure, verify and monitor the emissions coming from deforestation.

"This is the smallest deforestation in the history of the Amazon. These numbers are fantastic, " she said.

Until very recently, developing the Amazon was the priority, and some settlers feel betrayed by the new stigma surrounding deforestation.

If the present rate of deforestation is allowed to continue, the consequences for the earth will be great.

As a side benefit, American tofu eaters also tend to be less culpable for soy's role in deforestation in the Amazon.

Illegal logging is still a huge contributor to the deforestation of this area.

They say that preventing deforestation would halt a root cause of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere.

On the knotty but crucial question of how to reduce deforestation and the emissions it causes, progress was scanty.

Today, 98 percent of its forests are gone -- one of the worst cases of deforestation in human history.

Another important decision was to include in the new regime emissions from deforestation and land degradation.

Increased agriculture, deforestation, landfill, industrial production, and mining also contribute a significant share of emissions.

Deforestation endangers many animals, and mankind's great thirst for water and other resources leads to the extinction of many plant forms.

Angkor may have suffered problems common to modern times, including deforestation, overpopulation, topsoil degradation and erosion.

Collectively we have to work to roll back desertification in the North, erosion in the Southeast and deforestation in the SouthWest.

Due to the extensive deforestation , the land has been seriously destroyed and becomes barren .

Indonesia also has one of the world's highest deforestation rates, though it pledged a two-year moratorium on logging in May.

The World Wildlife Fund points to Sumatra's rapid deforestation rate as the main cause for the increased threat to the elephants.

Deforestation is one of the principal causes of global warming.

According to the new study, not necessarily. But avoiding mass deforestation and food scarcity is going to take some very big changes.

Deforestation has fallen by more than half over the past two years, to its lowest level since 1991 (see chart 7).

The main causes of deforestation include conversion of forests into agricultural land and infrastructure development.

Instead, they propose to siphon some of the carbon market proceeds into programmes to tackle deforestation.

Deforestation causes around fifth of greenhouse gas emissions every year, more than all the forms of air and surface transport combined.

Deforestation and mineral extraction can damage entire regions used along the birds' annual migration paths.

But avoiding mass deforestation and food scarcity is going to take some very big changes.

As a result of increased industry, agriculture, transportation, deforestation and the burning of fuels.

At the current rate of deforestation, the wild orangutans are predicted to be extinct in fewer than 20 years.

The main causes of this are overpopulation, water pollution, and deforestation.

And unless action is taken, deforestation is likely to remain high in the tropics over the coming years and decades.

On the one hand, deforestation emissions are underestimated due to a lack of satellite surveillance.

We enjoy the comfort and beauty of our furniture, yet we never bother to think about the serious soil erosion caused by deforestation.

In Indonesia, the world's No. 3 carbon-dioxide emitter (after China and the U. S. ), much of the emissions result from deforestation.

The Philippine authorities concluded that deforestation had contributed to the heavy losses inflicted by the typhoon.

As a result, the rise in fires could jeopardise the long-term success of schemes to reduce emissions from deforestation, they added.

The survey will substantially improve knowledge on land use change including deforestation, reforestation and natural expansion of forests.

By comparison, Brazil claims to have nearly halted its deforestation of the Amazon.

For now, the forests, peatlands and all the wildlife living within them continue to suffer from deforestation fuelled by companies like APP.

Scientists say deforestation causes a large, quick release of carbon into the atmosphere when existing plant life is destroyed.

If deforestation is allowed to continue, the consequence for the earth will be great.

Even in tropical countries, where most deforestation takes place, Brazil is not alone in becoming more reluctant to chop down trees.

Greenpeace activists protesting the deforestation of the Amazon in Sambodromo Parintins earlier this year.

We must also ban deforestation worldwide, as several countries already have done, and plant billions of trees to sequester carbon.

To halve deforestation within a decade, a multibillion dollar injection is needed now, write Donald P Kanak and Andrew W Mitchell .

Brazilian satellites have helped provide important information on the rate of deforestation in the Amazon.

Deforestation and blasting activity associated with mining and road construction are also undermining the stability of slopes in heavy rain.

So reducing tropical deforestation is seen as a high-priority way of mitigating potential climate change.

Deforestation has destroyed much of the pandas' home in the wild making the available bamboo inaccessible.

Deforestation, primarily due to agriculture, continues to threaten this world record-breaking bat.

At the current rate of deforestation, tropical rain-forests would virtually disappear as functioning ecosystems within 100 years.

If the scheme is not set up correctly it is in danger of causing more deforestation because logging simply shifts elsewhere.

Other Asian countries that have gone from deforestation to afforestation include South Korea and Vietnam.

Telecommuting reduced the number of papers, we use, thus reducing the massive deforestation forest.

At the same time, agriculture and associated deforestation are thought to produce up to 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

In practice, however, halting deforestation is hard: much of the world's rainforest has already succumbed to loggers and farmers.

deforestation and natural disasters, destruction of vegetation and land desertification.

Carbon molecules emitted by fossil fuels and deforestation linger for many centuries in the atmosphere before breaking apart.

The existence of Sumatran Tigers is threatened because their homes are being destroyed by deforestation.

Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest has increased almost sixfold, new data suggests.

Reducing deforestation is a comparatively cheap way of reducing emissions, with other benefits to boot.

Orangutans are native only to Indonesia and Malaysia. The endangered great apes have lost much of their habitat to deforestation.

Mr Maggi wants something similar. "We need to stop deforestation but we need the finance to do it, " he says.

Their habitat is shrinking as massive developments, deforestation, and rising sea levels threaten the Kushiro marshland.

Sephalack cares for baby orangutans that have been orphaned through forest fires and deforestation.

The expansion of sugar cane crops however threatens to continue to encourage deforestation, which also contributes to global warming.

Despite impending doom in the form of deforestation, they just sit and eat bamboo.

But loopholes and exemptions mean that it may not slow down deforestation much.

And unlike meat from those filthy places, it will not pollute rivers and streams, deplete groundwater or cause deforestation.

Until the 1960s, by one estimate, changes in land use, which mostly means deforestation, accounted for most historic man-made emissions.

Farming brought a population explosion, protein and vitamin deficiency, new diseases and deforestation.

The deforestation of this country caused ecological imbalance.

Carbon reduction through reforestation and avoided deforestation.

And it is still unclear who would get the money for reducing deforestation .

The most anticipated aimed at reduced deforestation and forest degradation, also known as REDD .

This flow cannot be blamed on deforestation: we have more forest cover in the Kosi catchment today than ever before.

End deforestation; replenish the deepest woods of the North and save our disappearing rainforests.

Fourth, influencing the activities of small-scale farmers will have little impact on the deforestation problem.

The greatest predation was the deforestation of Haiti, so that only 2 percent of the country is forested today.

Conservation efforts in the country have struggled against ever greater deforestation and decades of environmental neglect.

The deforestation is the main cause of "green house effect" , it makes world warmer and the ice in Antarctic melting, sea level higher.

"If we are to control deforestation, you have got to look at what local people are doing outside of the forests, " he told BBC News.

Last night, one large supplier agreed to ensure that the farms it takes cattle from are not responsible for deforestation.

Xixia period weather is cold and dry, people take on deforestation, land reclamation and destruction of vegetation appeared.

The deforestation , especially for oil palm , to provide biofuel for Western countries is what's causing these problems .

The biggest challenge is to finance reduced deforestation sustainably.

The bats are especially vulnerable due to ongoing deforestation in the region, researchers warn.

Now Nicholas Pepin from the University of Portsmouth, UK, and colleagues say deforestation could be an important part of the puzzle.

his study documented that Brazil's cattle and soybean industries are doing less business with those known to engage in deforestation.

In the process of urbanization, deforestation and land clearing are very common, which damage the natural habitats of flora and fauna .

The theme encompasses ambitions to reduce deforestation and to restore and rehabilitate degraded forest landscapes.

"The Brazilians are now exporting deforestation, " said one government spokesman.

The researchers found that rates of deforestation were also highest around PAs where human population growth was greatest.

Brazil committed itself to a drastic reduction in deforestation.

Third, 'perverse incentives' encourage deforestation in Brazil.

The main cause of soil erosion is deforestation for farmland reclamation and cultivation on steep slopes.

In much of the developing world, including here, deforestation has been tied to economic progress.

Only a small part of the demonstrated deforestation is driven by clearing land to plant coca bushes, the study found.

Most dust storms are linked to long droughts, exacerbated by human activities like overgrazing and deforestation.

This is in fact, this beautiful photograph , is in fact over the Amazon . And here the light green are areas of massive deforestation .

Another was a game designed to increase awareness of deforestation.

Deforestation repeated the reasons for the phenomenon of what?

Wild elephants are increasingly entering villages in search of food as deforestation destroys their habitat.

It is widely recognized (generally accepted) that extensive deforestation contributed to heavy summer flooding.

and deforestation as well as sustainable fuelwood harvesting.

Widespread deforestation results in the increase of global temperature and unpleasant change of climate.

Some environmentalists and government officials blame landslides on deforestation, which they say loosens soils on mountainsides.

If approved, the plan could face intense opposition abroad given surging global food prices and deforestation fears.

E the production of synthetic paper does not appear because caused by deforestation and paper generated waste water pollution.

Brazil now has a sophisticated system for monitoring deforestation from satellites and aeroplanes.

Will the programme actually slow deforestation or will loggers just move to areas not covered by the scheme?

In addition to increased mortality due to the cold, deforestation accelerated rapidly as citizens scavenged for wood to heat their homes.

We believe Google Earth Engine will bring transparency and more certainty to global efforts to stop deforestation.

In 1991, deforestation slowed to one of the lowest rates on record.

Since the 1960s, deforestation has constantly gathered pace.

Deforestation accounts for roughly 20% of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions, which reforestation could potentially counter.

But they do not deal with the commercial drivers of deforestation, and they are prone to leakage.

There was agreement on a process intended to prevent further deforestation and tap the value of forests as carbon sinks.

All of the country's major rivers are contaminated. Although progress has been made, deforestation and desertification remain rampant.

However, deforestation from illegal logging within the park threatens the survival of this unique ecosystem.

So the use of such technologies will only be a marginal solution to the deforestation problem.

It proposes concrete, country-by-country strategies to combat tropical deforestation.

There might even be an agreement to stop deforestation.

The most ambitious proposals called for a 50% reduction in deforestation by 2020 and a complete halt by 2030.

Non-renewable harvesting of biomass contributes to deforestation and thus climate change.

Deforestation, which causes local warming, exacerbates this.

He will then travel to Brazil to visit the Amazon River and see how the Brazilian government has been dealing with deforestation issues.

To expect deforestation to be halted not only in Berau but across the tropical world takes a big leap of faith.

One area where nations could make progress in Cancun is deforestation. Scientists say it is a major contributor to global warming.

The consumption of the land and the deforestation that occurs in present time is not a new experience.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says deforestation has decreased over the past 10 years.

China, the United States and Indonesia (because of deforestation) are the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases.

A team of scientists said fires in the region could release similar amounts of carbon as deliberate deforestation.

The civets' habitat is threatened by climate change and deforestation, triggering the slump.

The deforestation of rainforests will greatly upset ecological systems.

Deforestation results in the increase of global temperature and unpleasant change of climate.

and 2. have led to severe environmental degredation, esp. massive deforestation.

Northern countries could help the situation by not pushing deforestation through biofuel promotion.

It has laws that restrict deforestation in the rest.

However, scientists say the combined effects of climate change and deforestation may force them to adapt, move, or die.

At present, China's treatment of forest resources first ban on deforestation and change, "Kaoshanchishan" backward thinking.

Lemurs' natural habitat is under threat from the accelerating deforestation.

Chopsticks add to a plague of regional deforestation.

Illegal deforestation happens when ranchers and loggers conspire to clear swathes of land.

The possibility of halting global deforestation has become a plausible and thus worthwhile goal.

The ancients also understood that trees can increase rainfall and deforestation can reduce it.

Deforestation is increasing in Kenya, as it is throughout Africa.

The climate is worsening, with deforestation and desertification still on the march.

The strategy of avoided deforestation, however, offers much more.

In 1944, the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) was formed with the goal of enforcing guidelines on logging and deforestation.

NASA plans to launch a satellite which could help monitor deforestation and carbon emissions.

We must now capitalise on the Redd efforts of the past year and take the call to end deforestation to the next level.

The glaciers are melting, storms have increased in ferocity, there are landslides and floods, followed by droughts and deforestation.

Other pathways of nutrient loss include fire, the harvesting of crops and deforestation.

I'm going to skip through some of the objections because I don't have answers to why there's deforestation.

Soil erosion as a result of rapid deforestation on the Loess Plateau started in the 7th century BC.

In the Amazon this results in deforestation as farmers cut down trees to establish de-facto ownership of land.

Severe deforestation has accelerated soil erosion.

Deforestation can also change soil dynamics and increase erosion, both of which can release more carbon into the atmosphere.

After Mr Maggi became governor in 2003, Mato Grosso's rate of deforestation accelerated markedly.

It also plans a new generation of satellites to monitor agriculture, territory, deforestation and mineral rescources.

The government has pledged to cut Amazon deforestation by 80 percent over the next decade.

Mr Maggi in turn has cast doubt on the reliability of the numbers on deforestation.

Firewood scarcity offers the most visible and dramatic example of deforestation's effects.

A. The deforestation rate of China has obviously declined in recent years.

Although there has been no war, unlike the DRC, neither have there been high deforestation rates like Indonesia.

Forests are "reservoir" of deforestation, soil and water will mean massive loss.

Economic globalization accelerates the causes of climate change: global deforestation and the use of fossil fuels.

A number of countries have taken early action to halt deforestation.

The amended law also grants some amnesties for previous deforestation.

4% of global greenhouse gas emission resulted from deforestation and forest degradation.

It also muddles up one-off emissions from deforestation with ongoing pollution.

Deforestation does terrible damage to the reputation of a country that is a pioneer in renewable energy.

Costa Rica, which in the late 1980s lost around 4% of its forest each year, has reduced its deforestation almost to zero.

Why now? New roads and rapid deforestation are opening up habitats once too remote to explore.

Writing in Science, they said fire occurrence rates had increased in 59% of areas with reduced deforestation.

Deforestation is mainly caused by the cutting-down of tropical forests to provide land for agriculture.

They will try to agree a treaty to curb greenhouse gas emissions and slow deforestation.

Deforestation erodes whole layers of soil into the ocean every year.

Another example of massive deforestation is the eucalyptus.

Deforestation is causing a loss of biological diversity on an unprecedented scale.

But today, this Brazilian state is a global epicenter of deforestation.

Impact of Indochina Deforestation on the East Asian Summer Monsoon.

five land use change, soil, grassland degradation, urbanization, desertification, deforestation and so on greater impact.

Halting new deforestation, experts say, is as powerful a way to combat warming as closing the world's coal plants.

Therefore, urgent and effective measures should be implemented so as to prevent deforestation.

First, the problem of deforestation in Brazil is tightly linked to internal migration.

Deforestation to heat lodges are devastating Nepal.

2 while frequently occurring sand and storms are humans's deserved punishment for deforestation.

The lyrics and imagery speak of over-fishing, deforestation, and smog.

Brazil's, largely caused by farming practices and deforestation, should be cheaper to curb.

People should take measures to combat the deforestation.

Therefore if the world wants to reduce emissions, it must stop deforestation.

But it is not only gringos who clamour to stop deforestation.

But human populations around PAs may have negative impacts on biodiversity such as illegal hunting, deforestation and mineral extraction.

Countries with widespread deforestation have the most to gain.

Deforestation to heat lodges is devastating Nepal.

Deforestation in West Africa is largely driven by slash-and-burn agriculture for cocoa and other crops.

Local activists claim that China has caused the deforestation of 25 percent of central Mozambique.

from air pollution to deforestation to acid rain and water shortage.

Excessive deforestation leads to the extinction of some species.

"Both plant species and the watershed are threatened by deforestation, " Espaldon warns.

This means that Brazil has met its commitment to reduce deforestation by 80 percent a decade ahead of schedule.

the rise in greenhouse gases is partially the result deforestation .

But elsewhere, deforestation is a last resort to survive.

Main Drive of Deforestation: Over 70% of Amazon rainforest is cut down for meat production.

The chief reason is rapid slash-and-burn deforestation in the Amazon Basin.

But it also comes in the context of falling deforestation.

It needs to if Brazil is to halt a recent rise in deforestation.

China's expanding deserts now cover one-third of the country because of overgrazing, deforestation, urban sprawl and drought.

Deforestation follows a Kuznets curve, too.

The deforestation has to be stopped there.

They approve of reducing deforestation, too, which is a completely mainstream view.

The government was also stepping up efforts to stop deforestation, raising its target for tree cover to 15% by 2020.

Palm tree plantation in Borneo. Every year we lose 50 thousand square miles in deforestation.

In 2005 Mr Maggi "won" the Greenpeace "golden chainsaw" award for deforestation.

Because of palm oil's connection to deforestation, environmentalists are unlikely to reduce the pressure on companies that use it.

Deforestation is estimated to account for between 18% and 25% of the carbon emissions heating the world.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon increased by 15 percent during the past 12 months, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said.

Paulo Moutinho: We have a good momentum in Brazil right now to stop deforestation in the Amazon, forever.

Navigating the myriad providers of ocean temperatures, wind speeds, rates of deforestation and so on is well nigh impossible.

Deforestation may make the water supply less reliable during dry months.