The likely impact includes forest conversion to agricultural land, a drop in biological diversity as a result of monocropping and the massive use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, unsustainable levels of water abstraction and a greater risk of water-related conflicts with local communities and neighbouring States sharing the same transboundary river systems.

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Typical forest fauna includes leopard (Panthera pardus) the lion (P. leo), the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), elephant (Loxodonta africana), the dwarf buffalo (Syncerus caffer nanus) and the great forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni).

UNESCO: Biosphere Reserve Information

The most competitive districts could prove to be in the South East, with St Martins and St Andrews, and the West, which includes St Peters, St Saviours, the Forest and Torteval.

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Over decades, he built up his private Kraft Group--which includes holdings in paper and wood company International Forest Products, real estate and a private equity firm--into a fully integrated, billion-dollar company.

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The archive, which fills 30 boxes, also includes the household and estate accounts, including the servants' wages, and papers on Rockingham Forest, the Nene Navigation and coal mining.

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The Network includes sites as diverse as Lagkawi Island, featuring the oldest rock formations in Malaysia, the petrified forest on Lesvos Island (Greece) and the volcanic craters of Vulkaneifel in Germany.

UNESCO: NATURAL SCIENCES

Hosted by the Collaborative Partnerships on Forests (which includes CBD, FAO, IUCN, UNDP, UNEP, GEF, WB and more), Forest Day is a platform for anyone interested in forests and climate change to gather and to ensure that forests are high on the agenda of global and national climate strategies, and that those strategies are informed by the most up-to-date knowledge and experience.

UNESCO: Basic Sciences