Forests can provide multiple benefits to society as long as they are not overexploited.
The true value of England's forests can never be measured in the price the government gets from selling them.
Mr Lock is not against the controlled harvesting of wood, but insists the indiscriminate destruction of the forests can contribute to global warming.
Countries that can prove they store carbon, such as via their forests, can sell these credits on the market to businesses that have exceeded the agreed cap on their own allowable carbon emissions.
Rwanda has said it will pull its troops out of eastern Congo if the genocidaires hiding in the forests there can be disarmed and rendered harmless.
It is up to Apple to shake the forests so we can start finding spaces amongst the trees to grow our saplings.
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Although its natural habitat is broadleafed or mixed forests, it can spread quickly through managed landscapes such as pastures, rail embankments and river banks.
It can adversely affect forests and crops, and is also linked with damage to plankton, the microscopic creatures at the bottom of the marine food chain.
But it looks as if Russia will get an increase in the allowance that it can claim for its forests, just in the interests of keeping it inside the agreement.
Wolfe works mostly in the forests of Cameroon tracking these viruses that can jump from animals to humans - what are called zoonotic viruses.
Dealing with pollution in cities, the depletion and deterioration of water supplies, or the destruction of forests and precious biodiversity is urgent and can make a big difference.
Far off the main roads, tourism here is even sparser than the route from Lushoto to Mtae, but the violet-covered hills and butterfly-filled cloud forests do lure some visitors, who can access the park independently or through a tour.
More probable is a long war of attrition with the Rwandan army suppressing the rebels but never defeating them, as long as they can hide in the mountains and forests of Eastern Congo.
Wild boar that have lost legs to landmines can be seen hobbling out from the forests, and when two gorals face each other from either side of the border fence it is hard to tell which one is in the safest area.
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It is a short drive from Stirling on to the town of Callander, where you can do some afternoon cycling around the lush forests of the Trossachs.
However, as forests fulfill needs for food, fuel and timber, restoring them can benefit communities as well as the environment, the organization said.
It has also handicapped public institutions in the U.S. in the development of plants that can handle the challenges facing present-day agriculture and forests.
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He promotes the concept of an Eastern wildway to physically connect America's state parks, conservation areas and forests so wide-ranging animals such as bears, wolves and eagles can roam freely.
Nor, if Dr Wolfe can raise the money, will the project be confined to tropical forests.
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At the Aiken County truck plant, 400 of the 560 acres are given up to mixed-pine forests, and the company has planted tens of thousands of native and threatened longleaf pines, which can grow to 90 feet.
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Unowned forests are unprotected, which is why the grileiros, or land-grabbers, of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest can so easily turn it to pasture.
But walking in Bolivia is also an experience in diversity: one day you can be in snow-covered mountains and the next you might descend through moss-strewn cloud forests to jungle lowlands.
The flaw in their theory was that forests need periodic episodes of destruction to clear out old growth and dead wood so that new, more vigorous growth can flourish.
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