Global Deforestation by Christiane Runyan, Paolo D'Odorico

Global Deforestation



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Page: 300
ISBN: 9781107135260
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Explore the status of forests worldwide by layering data to create custom maps of forest change, cover, and use. Protected areas (PAs) have been established to conserve tropical forests, but their effectiveness at reducing deforestation is uncertain. Increased catchment erosion and nutrient loading are commonly recognized impacts of deforestation on global wetlands. Tropical deforestation accounts for about 10 percent of the world's global warming pollution. Does it really make a difference ? Deforestation is the act or process of clearing (permanently removing) trees and related undergrowth from a forest. Rainforests around the world still continue to fall. Global Forest Watch, a mapping platform supported by Google, Deforestation is seen in a village in Carhuaz in the Andean region of Ancash. Dark ages and dark areas: global deforestation in the deep past. In 1980 he began writing about the problems of tropical deforestation (in association with the Threshold Foundation). Trading Forests: Quantifying the Contribution of Global Commodity Markets to Emissions from Tropical Deforestation - Working Paper 384. Forests have a vital role to play in the fight against global warming. Deforestation Threatens Pygmies, Study Finds. Not very long ago, tropical countries like Indonesia and Brazil were cast as the main villains of global forest conservation efforts. And promote responsible forestry, WWF created the Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN). UCS is calling on companies that use palm to adopt strong deforestation-free in the tropics and extensive carbon emissions, contributing to global warming. Global Forest Watch launched on February 20, 2014, convening government and World Resources Institute Partner on Satellite Imagery to Curb Deforestation. But forests around the world are under threat from deforestation, . Earth has lost more than half a million square miles of forest between 2000 and 2012.





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