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The general problem of deforestation is threatening to affect the landscape of the world heritage site of Angkor, in particular its water management.

Topics raised by speakers included environmental crime, particularly illegal logging and fishing; counterfeiting and piracy of digital media; and trafficking in firearms.

The Ministers also reaffirmed that urgent actions were needed to support adaptation and voluntary mitigation measures undertaken by developing countries, and to strengthen cooperation at the global level to address, inter alia, desertification, land degradation and deforestation, and called upon the international community to prioritize the needs of the developing countries, taking into account the needs of those that are particularly vulnerable, in accordance with the criteria set in the UNFCCC, and to provide long-term, adequate, scaledup, predictable, new and additional finance, technology development and support as well as capacity-building.

Countries affected by illegal harvestingand trade also started to adopt new technologies for tracking timber movement.

Poaching, the feralization of the domestic reindeer, the increasing number of predators (wolves), massive deforestation, a decrease in the number of reindeer moss, high rent for northern reindeer herding, at 5.35 rubles per hectare on forest area units and many other reasons have also led to the catastrophic situation of reindeer herding in Sakhalin.

[...] [...] undergrowth and fellinglarger trees, effectively [...]

The Panel has identified a number of available technologies and practices: afforestation; reforestation; forest management; reduced deforestation; harvested wood production management; use of forest products for bioenergy and to replace fossil fuels; tree species improvement to increase biomass production and carbon sequestration; improved remote-sensing technologies for analysis of vegetation/soil carbon sequestration potential; and the mapping of land-use change.

Furthermore, agriculture development has been suffering from adverse impacts of climate change, environmental degradation, desertification, land and soil degradation, extreme weather events, floods, droughts and cyclones, deforestationand loss of biodiversity, declining water availability and degrading water quality.

They are endangered by the poaching of ivory and bushmeat, illegal logging and mining, and the settlement of populations fleeing conflict zones.

Mounting ecological stress is reflected in biodiversity losses, land degradation, water scarcity, deforestation and increasing levels of hazardous chemicals in the environment, all of which add to the challenges of people living in poverty, many of whom depend disproportionately on the environment for their livelihoods.

Bushfires, deforestation for industrial and domestic purposes, the destruction of fauna and the drying up and pollution of watercourses are all leading to desertification in Guinea.

We need sustained assistance and action to consolidate peace and security and our national institutions, to train our armed forces and police, to create jobs for youth, in particular to keep them occupied, to strengthen the State’s capacities to provide quality social services, to resettle the many displaced people and to accelerate the strategy to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation — REDD-plus — in short, to bring about sustainable development and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Environmental factors, such as poorly designed irrigation and water systems, inadequate housing, poor waste disposal and water storage, deforestation and loss of biodiversity, all are regarded as factors contributing to the most common vector-borne diseases, including malaria and dengue.

Yunnan authorities, regional army commanders and ethnic groups have all been directly involved.

Civil society accepts that the private sector can play a useful role, but our experience is of companies that have unsustainably exploited minerals, fish and forests; land grabs that have stolen the resources and livelihoods of local people; biofuel plantations that have destroyed forests and agricultural lands; food dumping that has destroyed farmers’ livelihoods; and projects that leave local people with no water and a polluted environment.

Logging has resulted in extensive flooding, large scale human displacement and widespread agricultural, economic and infrastructure damage.

For example, the One United Nations Training Service Platform for Climate Change (UN CC:Learn) which includes 32 partners, supports Member States, United Nations agencies and other development partners in designing and implementing results-oriented and sustainable learning to address climate change, while the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD Programme) assists developing countries in the preparation and implementation of national REDD+ strategies.

[...] [...] 12-gauge pistols, and machetes.

It requested Rwanda to provide more information on food insecurity, internal displacement, deforestation and declining agricultural productivity.

[...] [...] branches with her machete while supervising [...]

A United Nations investigation confirmed that during those attacks, at least 33 persons, including 9 children and 6 women, had been killed, either burned alive, decapitated or shot.

The UN-REDD programme, as the cornerstone of the partnership between Africa and the developed countries, particularly in the area of preserving carbon sinks and the need to strengthen carbon markets, must be taken into account for future agreements to be viable.

[...] [...] the drivers of deforestationand land tenure issues.

Support is being provided for the development of a teacher-training module on the applications of space-based technology, focusing on sea-level rise, deforestation and water pollution, led by NASA and the Argentine National Commission on Space Activities under the Eduflow initiative of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Working Group on Education, Training and Capacity-Building.

By analyzing who would benefit and lose in each scenario, the valuation exercise clearly demonstrated that logging the tropical forest not only worked against overall economic growth and development, but provided limited financial gains to a few logging companies at the expense of hundreds of rural forest communities.

In its efforts to combat desertification and deforestation, Algeria had always given precedence to measures to restore vegetation, including a recent operation for the designation of protected areas and a national soil conservation campaign.