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Protected area review > Vietnam > Ba Be National Park
No detailed or concrete delineation of management boundaries. Conservation management in every specific zone. ^ TOP 6. Land encroachment Challenges Solutions 1. Shortage of agricultural land: forest clearance for shifting cultivation, expand existing slope land areas (170 ha agriculture land available) Start resource use planning for the National Park and surrounding areas. Co-operate with ...
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Conservation
Hainan, China. Since then, the numbers have fallen drastically as a result of forest clearance and hunting. A comprehensive survey in October 2003 and subsequent monitoring suggest that now no ... would recreate a tennis-court sized area of habitat for the gibbons and thousands of other forest species. More information about the project is available here. Conservation grants A major role of ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – 2004 Photo Gallery
Comores and is listed as Critically Endangered. It lives in montane forest on the islands of Anjouan and Moheli where its habitat is declining as a result ... that occurs only in the Gughe Mountains of southern Ethiopia. The species is threatened by forest clearance, human settlement and agricultural encroachment: the Gughe Mountains are heavily populated and intensively cultivated, ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Search
Moist Montane 5.1 Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls) 14.6 Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest Threats Threats: The main threats are forest clearance, human settlement, and agricultural encroachment. The Gughe Mountains are heavily populated and intensively cultivated, and only small patches of montane forest remain. ...
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Biodiversity Conservation System
It must, however, be stressed that this argument applies to tropical moist ... fixation, such as tropical freshwater swamps, although these are far less diverse than tropical moist forest. In more general terms, there appears to be no direct or obvious link between the ...
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Global Forest Watch: Indonesia
Indonesias export revenues, and to reward favored companies, at least 16 million ha of natural forest have been approved for conversion to industrial timber plantations or agricultural plantations. In many cases, ... densely populated Java to the outer islands was responsible for about 2 million ha of forest clearance between the 1960s and the programs end in 1999. In addition, illegal migration and ...
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Suriname illegal timber concessions Omnicorp Sino-Forest Greenheart Tacoba Xinhui CIMC Simon Murray GEMS Samling Barama Macquarie exports flooring China Hong Kng stock exchange Guyana OOCL Asset stripping Investment
Suriname. There is now substantial renewed Chinese interest in exploiting the weakly managed forest of Suriname. Of particular current interest is the prospective sale of logging rights to almost ... cash flow profile of the project would be U-shaped, investment being required after profitable forest clearance and before net profits were earned from palm oil sales. The ability of a" ...
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Oxfam's Cool Planet - On the Line - tropical rain forest - deforestation, the effects
So it would be a disaster if they were to vanish. Once cleared of trees, rain forest topsoil, which can take over a thousand years to accumulate, can be eroded in just one decade. ... of life which have existed largely unchanged for thousands of years. However, potentially the most damaging effect of forest clearance is its impact on the planet's climate. We have all heard of the perils of ...
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Oxfam's Cool Planet - On the Line - deforestation of the tropical rain forest - printable version
However, potentially the most damaging effect of forest clearance is its impact on the planet's climate. We have all heard of the ... of the scale, consumers in developed countries have to understand the increasingly damaging impacts of the forest products they buy. That is why WWF advises them of the alternatives available, and encourages ...
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WWF - Forest conservation through the decades
Forest clearance for commercial plantations led to raging forest fires in Indonesia, costing an estimate economic ... and deadlines. This will help to achieve the goal of establishing a representative system of forest protected areas by 2010. Another 42 million hectares of forests were brought under formal protection ...
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