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Benefits of Intact Forests .:. Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition
Forests Provide Clean Water By slowing rainwater so that it can be absorbed into the ground, forests help filter pollutants and sediment from our waters while replenishing aquifers and keeping annual stream flows steady. Communities like Harrison VA, Charlotte NC, and Atlanta GA rely on intact forests for their drinking water. In fact, 2200 communities, supplying more than 10 million people, ...
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Conservation International - Projects
The project will reduce deforestation by negotiating conservation agreements with local inhabitants who are encroaching on intact forests, planting native species on deforested areas, and designing agroforestry systems to expand tree cover and carbon stocks throughout the watershed. Northeast Atlantic Forest, Brazil The ...
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EIA - The Environmental Investigation Agency: Forests for the World Campaign | Campaign News
Indochina, threatening some of the last intact forests in the region, a major new report reveals. Photo Story: 13 Mar 08 IMAGES ... America's Free Trade Pacts Driving Illegal Timber Trade; Destruction of Asian and Latin American Forests First round of trade negotiations with Malaysia conclude tomorrow Press Release: 10 May 06 Shipping ...
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EIA - The Environmental Investigation Agency: Forests for the World Campaign | Reports & Briefings
Indochina, threatening some of the last intact forests in the region. Last Updated: 19 Mar 08 How Wal-Mart's Sourcing Practices ... .S. and E.U. imports of illegal Honduran wood increase poverty, fuel corruption and devastate forests and communities. Based on a series of undercover investigations in Honduras, it tracks the illegal ...
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Forests and the EU
The management of forests and forest areas remains squarely a prerogative of national states. This is ... old-growth. Furthermore, in the 1970s a striking decline in the health of Europe's forests - loss of foliage, discoloration- was noticed, caused by atmospheric pollution. High concentrations of sulphur dioxide ...
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Global Forest Watch - Russia - Russia's Forests
Africa Chile Indonesia Russia United States Venezuela < Home English Franais Espaol Bahasa Russia: Initiatives Overview Forests Publications & Maps News GFW Russia Log drive, 1959- this was a relatively easy way to ... ) have a production potential of less than 1m 3 per hectare per year. 3. Remaining intact forests are poorly stocked. More than half (56 percent) has a standing inventory of less ...
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Conservation International - Saving Forests
In addition, burning and clearing tropical forests emits at least 20 percent of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change, more than all the world's cars, trucks, and airplanes combined. If left intact, these tropical forests are reservoirs of massive amounts of carbon. Protecting and restoring forests ...
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Saskatchewan Environmental Society — Sustainable Economic Development in Saskatchewan's Forests
For more information on NTFP’s see our fact sheet, Non-Timber Forest Products: Economic Development While Sustaining Our Northern Forests. SES has also developed a web page of information and resources on NTFPs for Saskatchewan entrepreneurs and communities who are interested in exploring the economic and community development potential of ...
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Global Forest Watch - Chile - Chile's Forests
Regions VI and VII, these fragments represent the only remaining stands of native forests. These remnants constitute an important genetic reservoir for the future restoration of these ecosystems. Today ... as frontier foresttracts of at least 5,000 hectares, classified as mature forests or dense timberline forests that are intact or only slightly altered. Only a third of all forest is ...
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Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem National Forests: Caribou-Targhee
Vegetation ranges from aspen, maple, Douglas fir, and lodgepole pine forests to vast expanses of sagebrush steppe grasslands and mountain meadows. There are more than 334 vertebrate ... and accessed mainly by trails. Idaho's Roadless Areas make up the core of the last intact forest ecosystem in the lower 48 states — where all of the native plants, fish and wildlife ...
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