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Problems with Tourism
Disappearing wildlife One of the reasons the Rio Bravo forest has the FSC certificate is that it provides a safe haven ... out in next 25-30 years. If forest patches are too small, many species cannot survive. Even when a forest is just damaged or thinned, loss ... the wildlife. The next case study shows a different way a forest can be made to ‘pay its way’ with minimal damage ...
www.focusonforests.org

Neotropical Grasslands: Habitat, Plants and Animals
Neotropical Grasslands: Habitat, Plants and Animals Forest patches in the Brazilian cerrado. Neotropical grasslands support a wide variety of plants and animals, and ... – High elevation grasslands and moors of the Andes. Regional Savannas and Wetlands – Small patches of savanna woodlands within the Amazon basin provide "stepping stones" between the Pantanal and the ...
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Disappearing wildlife
Disappearing wildlife One of the reasons the Rio Bravo forest has the FSC certificate is that it provides a safe haven ... in next 25-30 years. If forest patches are too small, many species cannot survive. Even when a forest is just damaged or thinned, loss ... of more than 170 animal species under threat in the Atlantic forest of Brazil. Sumatra and Borneo are now the only places where ...
focusonforests.org

NMPIF Forests 2
Nesting has been documented in Arizona ... -210 small oaks per acre (80-85 per hectare). These forest patches should be >492ft (150m) wide (Bowers and Dunning 1994). Management ... grazing regimes that allow for retention of a mosaic of patches with one-foot high tall grasses Whiskered Screech-Owl (Williams 1999 ...
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Contribution of Roads to Forest Fragmentation in the West
Figure 1. Number of forest patches. The landscape measurement of total perimeter increased considerably (approximately 20%). The number of patches (areas of intact forest) in the study area increased ...
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Clearcut in old-growth forests Finland Kuhmo Kainuu Finnish forestry 1998 Storaenso UPM-Kymmene Vapo Timber Finnish Nature League
Storaenso UPM-Kymmene Vapo Timber Finnish Nature League Clearcut in old-growth forest by governmental Forest and Park Service September 1998 in Eastern Finland Clearcut near small lake. Only ... defined as valuable old-growth forests by Finnish environmenmtal NGOs. Clearcuts took place in small forest patches between small lakes and mires. Hundreds of years old Scots pines, dead trees and ...
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Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic (AT0125)
Moist Broadleaf Forests > Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic (AT0125) Arabuko-sokoke forest, Kenya Photograph by Judy Oglethorpe Eastern Africa: Coastal ... Forest Tapestry If you were to fly in an airplane over this ecoregion, you would see many small forest patches beneath ... charcoal and rope. Although some of the small forest patches are protected reserves and burial groves, many are ...
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Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic (AT0128)
The vegetation varies from savanna woodland, forest patches, and thickets, to swamps. Also included in this ecoregion are some important offshore islands, such ... that are either unprotected or very poorly protected. In Tanzania the forests are generally in forest reserves, however they are not completely safe. The main threats to the reserves come from ...
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A Plea For The Ancient Forest! (flying squirrel)
Even though the Forest Service is breaking the law by logging US Fish and Wildlife Service designated ... is considered expendable by Congress, though the truth is that the unprotected old growth patches of this forest are one last sanctuary for these beautiful native aeronauts. And since a squirrel rarely ...
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Nurmes. Finnish Nature League Forest: Northern Karelia, Forest and Park Service, ecological landscape planning, Esko Repola
Adjacent to Peurajärvi recreation site, Nurmes "No more vast clearcuts" Forest management by the Forest and Park Service in Nurmes, eastern Finland in summer 1999. Soft forestry methods ... hectare clearcut. Few patches are left of what used to be vast wilderness areas in Northern Karelia - the rest are vanishes due to the ecological forest management of Forest and Park Service. ...
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