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RCTT Overview
Agroforestry systems, aguaje, successful species, enriched fallows, maintain local/community possession, use secondary forest and degraded areas, avoid cutting primary forest. Support research projects. RCTT: Protect RCTT with community support and legal ...
www.rainforestconservation.org


Environmental Restoration: Soil Pitting to Improve Arid Land Revegetation
Pitting without seeding has led to mixed success in the Southwest. In degraded areas with limited seedbanks seeding should be done along with the pitting. A broadcast seeder ... establishment. Pitting should be more commonly selected as the preferred method for treating large areas of degraded lands and construction impacted soils. Further Reading: Bainbridge, D.A. 1997. Soil pitting; ...
www.ecocomposite.org


AGENDA 21: COMBATING DEFORESTATION (INTRODUCTION)
INTRODUCTION) COMBATING DEFORESTATION Introduction 11.1. This chapter refers to the four programme areas resulting from the negotiations held at the fourth session of the Preparatory ... protection, sustainable management and conservation of all forests, and the greening of degraded areas, through forest rehabilitation afforestation, reforestation and other rehabilitative means Basis for Action ...
www.ess.co.at


Who Pays
Totally protected forests? saves a lot of wildlife, but only if areas are large enough preserves ‘environmental services’ poorer countries can’t afford guards, rangers etc ... ? more liable to disease, pests and fire support relatively little wildlife could be planted in degraded areas but should not replace natural forest local jobs, but few jobs for women or the ...
www.focusonforests.org


The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Because of the projected rapid rate of change relative to the rate at which ... climate could exacerbate periodic and chronic shortfalls of water, particularly in arid and semi-arid areas of the world. Developing countries are highly vulnerable to climate change because many are ...
www.grida.no


Roads
Map1 showing degraded areas from Interstate Highways and transmission lines Map2 showing degraded areas from state roads and transmission lines Map3 showing degraded areas ...
magicalliance.org


TEACH: Areas of Concern
TEACH: Areas of Concern Water Pollution Areas of Concern Invasive Species Urban Sprawl 3 cheers for the lake The Thunder Bay Chronicle- ... Ontario and its tributaries Connecting Channels References and more information The Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs) are environmentally degraded areas within the Great Lakes basin. The U.S.-Canada Water Quality Agreement ...
www.great-lakes.net


Protected areas review > Vietnam > Second national round table
For that Vietnam's protected areas ... changing. It requires both regulation and economic incentives to work. Finally, the existing protected areas system needs to be reinforced. It requires a comprehensive national policy and legal ...
www.mekong-protected-areas.org


Protected areas review > Thailand >
Diversity (CBD) Water resource management and protected areas Forested watersheds and natural wetlands within protected areas are extremely important in the effective management of national ... capacity without negatively affecting watershed forests. Rehabilitate degraded watersheds. Increase water use efficiency. Energy development and protected areas The energy sector is undergoing a period ...
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Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes Region
Search GLIN for more news items about Overview Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs) are severely degraded geographic areas within the Great Lakes Basin. They are defined by the U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (Annex 2 of the 1987 Protocol) as "geographic areas that fail ...
www.great-lakes.net




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