What are you doing today to save our forests? Are you part of those persons that believe that the best way to stop deforestation is to stop using forest products? Well, the reality is different people use forest products every day even without thinking they are. The average American uses nearly six trees worth of paper each year. Thankfully, there are organizations that help protect our forest for the future generations. One of the most recognized not for -profit organization is Forest Stewardship
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Rainforest Connection is one of the modern technological projects used to prevent illegal logging and poaching operations on-the-spot. This wonderful initiative was started by Topher White in 2012. Topher holds a BA in Physics. His work experience includes working as a web chief of ITER (i.e., International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor); he also was a co-founder of Enthuse, an institute which built one of the first sports engagement and mobile rewards platform. Illegal logging is one of the
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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) serves and represents a new pattern in forestry as forest areas need to be adequately managed. As Young (1982) stated a long time ago, management of the forest for multiple land use is now common. This is due to the encroachment of forest areas and illegal felling in the protected forest areas. This brings about the determination of the use of the forest, forest land and forest products to ensure that the benefits derived today are similarly
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Forestry education in Nigeria has added much impact in the country, most especially to the rural people and natural environment. The growing prominence of conserving biodiversity, arresting desertification, conserving soils, sequestering carbon, improving water quality and quantity and providing bio-energy raises the premium on forest resources (Temu et al 2008). It is expected that for any sustainable development to be achieved by any nation, the educational sector (most especially
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Deforestation in the tropics Rainforests are being destroyed at an astounding rate. The land is being cleared away for the pure interest of money and nobody of these capitalists thinks about it’s importance. It supports millions of plant, animal and insect species. Tropics produce more than 20% of our oxygen on the planet and that’s not all, we use huge amount of plants from there to provide ourselves with medics and drugs. I understand capitalistic view and I respect it, but it is not normal
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LAMPIRAN 1 - DRAFT1 OCTOBER 2012 ITEM / REGULATION ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT 1974 EXPLANATORY NOTES ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (CONTROL OF SUSPENDED SOLIDS) REGULATIONS 20XX In exercise of powers conferred by Section 24, 25, 29 and 51 of the Environmental Quality Act 1974, the Minister, after consultation with the Environmental Quality Council, makes the following regulations: Citation These regulations are made based on the current provisions in the EQA 1974. The regulations are not
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The Emerald Ash Borer is a tiny little creature that is causing the most severe damage to our forests in the United States of any living creature. The metallic green beetle is only a ½ inch long and an 1/8 of an inch wide yet it is destroying trees at an unprecedented rate. The beetle has been in Russian, Japan, Korea and northern China for some time, and was found for the first time in 2002 in Michigan. While we can not be certain it is widely believed that the Emerald Ash Borer arrived here via
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Amazon Draft Years ago far into the past animals walked the earth long before humans walking and prowling as they please. Now they have changed other animals walk this earth with an iron fist changing everything they see. But is this all really bad, it is all really really bad. the one thing that has been in the grasp of many two legged creatures is the Amazon rainforest. It's the world's pearl as a red flame it engulfs the forest as if they were performing as if it were just there just for you.
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Have you ever wondered what would happen if the Amazon Rainforest, just, disappeared? ⅓ of all medicines are found in plants, and more than half of those plants are in the Amazon Rainforest. This means if the Amazon Rainforest vanished we would lose over 112 drugs and almost all of our future cures. The Amazon Rainforest holds up 20% of the world's oxygen, that's why it has the nickname “The Lungs of the Earth”. The Amazon holds up to 400 different bird species, 125 different mammals, over 750 trees
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Identify impacts associated with agriculture Some time ago a quarter of earth was covered by grassland but all that changed for the reason of the loss of wildlife habitat most of the grasslands have been turned into farms. The majority of soils of the grasslands are wealthy and as a result just about approximately anything can be developed. Then again impoverished agricultural procedures can wreck soils maneuvering grasslands into unresponsively and unproductive. If the harvests are not well taken
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