The 3km and 9km Circles in a Forest trails explore the refreshing green environment, passing 3m-high tree ferns, old-growth trees, strange fungi and babbling brooks.
There has long been opposition to the prospect of a gold mine and processing plant being built at Skouries in the Halkidiki peninsula, with some residents objecting to what they say will be the destruction of the environment and of pristine forest in the area, leading to the loss of tourism and other local activities such as farming, the rearing of livestock and fishing.
The different programmes are specifically created for the local communities in which they are located, in thematic fields such as "forest", "culture and environment", "local community and environment", "tourism and environment", "biodiversity", "soil" etc.
We also discussed the opportunity to cooperate in the area of climate change, environment, and also management of the forest.
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Waltham Forest councillor Clyde Loakes, cabinet member for the environment and public realm, said it was a "real worry" that the borough had the highest proportion of unemployed young people in the capital.
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"We did lot of work on creating a completely digital environment - the entire field, the forest in the background is completely digital - and on digital doubles, digital replacements for humans, " she said.
Along with the FCCC, which established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it also produced three other much lesser-known initiatives the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the Statement of Forest Principles, The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, and Sustainable Development Agenda 21.
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Many mines were operating in dry and deciduous forest lands on India's western ghat region, flouting environment laws, he claimed.
Indonesia has laws designed to stop the burning of forest land, and supposedly imposes draconian penalties for damaging the environment.
The government launched a consultation on plans to sell off or lease England's 258, 000-hectare public forest estate - currently managed by the Forestry Commission on behalf of the environment, food and rural affairs department - to the private sector or to not for profit organisations, last week.
"It's just a great family day out with all ages wanting to enjoy the New Forest and get fit in a way that isn't damaging to the environment, " he said.
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Metagenomics takes another approach, basically putting an entire environment--the water in an ocean, the soil in a forest or the insides of an animal--into a DNA sequencer.
From 1998 to 2001, funds from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) were used to allot grants to villagers for ecological forest management and to compensate them for the loss of the right to exploit the forest.
But Mary Creagh, Labour's shadow environment secretary, said the government planned to sell off 10, 000 hectares of public forest before the consultation was over.
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