The UN estimates Africa is losing four million hectares of forest a year - twice the global average.
The capsule would then have been recovered from the forest a day later.
It isn't quite ready for a high-speed chase in the forest a la Star Wars, but it still looks pretty cool.
Before that, it was Nottingham Forest a decade earlier.
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Irving (a Canadian conglomerate that is now the largest single landowner in Maine), intend to harvest the timber in the usual way, but others, such as Plum Creek Timber, will use the forest a bit differently.
The Amazon forest provides a relevant example: due to the interaction of deforestation, fire and climate change, it is predicted that the Amazon could undergo a widespread dieback in the future, with parts of the forest moving into a self-perpetuating cycle of more frequent fires and intense droughts, leading to a shift to savanna-like vegetation.
Spokesman Lt Col Sagir Musa said the "fortified" camps were in a forest and a game reserve in Borno State.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Meaning they can reduce a forest to a lawn in a few years, leaving vulnerable animals like the Galapagos tortoise struggling to survive.
They look at a forest or a desert and they track rainfall patterns, or air and soil temperatures, what plants grow there and who eats what.
Until a few years ago, assessing the amount of plant matter in a forest in a cheap and accurate manner seemed an insurmountable problem, according to Eric Dinerstein, chief scientist of the World Wide Fund for Nature, a conservation group that is also involved in the Nepalese lidar project.
So the idea of renting a pack to speed through a snowy forest for a weekend sounded dreamy.
Corcovado has roughly 13 types of vegetation, including a cloud forest, a mangrove and a freshwater herbaceous swamp.
Easily hired from most village centres or arranged by hotels, guests can zip along with a guide through the forest in a thrilling, if slightly noisy adventure, possibly stopping for tea or coffee along the way to stay warm.
As Christopher Failles pointed out on these pages a couple of weeks back, Sino Forest was a very risky stock to be holding.
And in Colorado, a spokesman for the Rio Grande National Forest said a fire 15 miles southwest of the small town of Creede was reported.
Mark Murphy's favourite theory is that a dummy Apollo capsule was being carried through the forest by a helicopter.
Odzala is characterized by a rich variety of habitats, including primary rain forest with a closed canopy (e.g. with Entandrophragma utile, E. candollei and E. cylindricum) and open understorey layer, forests dominated by dense formations of Marantaceae, forest clearings and savannas on the hilltops (e.g. with Hymenocardia acida, Annona arenaria or Hyparrhenia diplandra).
Beneath the old man's shirt was an illustration of a forest, something like a coloured tattoo.
Doss suggests that innovation is more like a rain forest, than a plantation.
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The narrator becomes a young boy (alternately played by Noah Radcliffe and Jack Broderick) who wanders into a nearby forest to escape a family argument and gets swept up in the fast-unfolding plot, in which Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who brought down the beanstalk) run collectively afoul of a witch, a wolf and a giant.
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So when the state turned over 187 hectares (460 acres) of forest for a planned refinery near Badama, a plot the same size had to be found for the Forest Department.
The 400, 000-acre Ocala National Forest is a tangle of springs, sand-pine scrub and subtropical forest that is home to raccoons, flying squirrels, otters and black bears, as well as many species of bird.
The 69-year-old Christenberry still makes the annual pilgrimage to Alabama each year, returning to the same locations: a strange red-brick building standing alone in Talladega National Forest, a juke joint that has since been torn down, churches and warehouses.
Dressed like a new-age Tinker Bell, 20-year-old de Forest bested a field that included the UK contender and 1980s hit-maker Bonnie Tyler.
Against one, maybe, if he gets stranded in a forest, but not against a throng.
Mr. DAVID SEDARIS (Writer): (As Crumpet the Elf) I wear green, velvet knickers, a forest green velvet smock and a perky little hat decorated with spangles.
The skill is allegedly triggering on team controlled creeps as well, so a Chen with a stable of forest friends and a little micro can become veritable stun cannon.
Harewood, who was having one of his best games in a Forest shirt, then rolled a shot agonisingly wide, before Johnson headed narrowly over from a terrific Jim Brennan cross.
Professing to be an architectural icon in a liveable city core, this giant structure, purported to be the largest wood structure in the world, is best described as a forest of mushrooms welded onto a flying waffle.
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