To take up the slack, Brazilian farmers are clearing more of the Amazonian rain forest to plant soybeans.
Existing funding is already going to The NHS Forest to plant 65, 000 trees across 25 sites in this planting season.
The clivia path alone (clivia is a forest undergrowth plant found only in South Africa) is practically a national monument.
They will record plant species, forest structure, ash cover, soil properties, river sediment and the overall topography of the burned area.
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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.
Opponents say the new mine, which will consist of an open pit, tunnels beneath, and processing plant, will destroy the forest and contaminate groundwater.
This small forest enclave is also home to hundreds of plant species, some of which, like the kyami tree(ph), are facing extinction in the Caribbean.
He also has a 700, 000-hectare forest concession in Kalimantan, where he wants to plant palm sugar, and other landholdings in Papua.
"We are working on four small scale forest projects with local community groups to grow and plant over 1, 000, 000 trees to re-store the tree cover in an area now vulnerable to landslides, " he added.
Early next morning before the park is overrun by weekend visitors, walk another nature trail with Vakale to learn about indigenous plant such as kadamba and flame of the forest, and bird species such as golden orioles and racket-tailed drongos.
Plant ecologists know that the northern limit of the forest is determined by the mean July temperature.
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There is already so little old-growth forest left that it threatens the long-term survival of many plant and animal species, so continuing to log such forests is deeply irresponsible.
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