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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.

Reports on illegal tree felling incidents [...] [...]

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

[...] [...] and the families of the deceased.

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.

However, in many countries the rate of deforestation and forest degradation remains deeply disturbing.

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.

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

[...] [...] imprisoned and sentenced to death, and indicated that [...] [...]

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

[...] [...] poorly conducted or clandestine abortions; maternal mortality; deaths from harmful practices; deaths linked to human trafficking, drug dealing, organized crime and gangrelated activities; the death of girls or women from simple neglect, through starvation or [...] [...]

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

[...] [...] morbidity and mortality rates and [...] [...]

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.

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

c) In seeking the Legislative Council’s approval of funding for public works projects, project offices will also include in Public Works Subcommittee papers information on tree preservation/felling/planting in relation to the projects.

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

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 felling larger trees, effectively [...]

[...] [...] the drivers of deforestation and land tenure issues.

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, deforestation and loss of biodiversity, declining water availability and degrading water quality.

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.

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.

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.