The regulations also include harvesting standards designed to protect forest soils.
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But in practice, nothing can protect the forest once a logging road is opened up.
Elected out of the almost 200 poor families who live in the area, they led the fight to protect the forest.
The book tells the story of a little furry guy trying to protect his forest, bears and birds from a destructive factory.
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The park's revenues are shared with local communities who are provided with schools, clinics and advice on how to protect the forest itself.
Yet with sufficient attention to monitoring, verification and, crucially, making sure the cash goes to the people who can actually protect the forest, REDD could work.
Fans and followers of one of America's great thinkers, Henry David Thoreau, have been fighting for decades to protect the forest in Massachusetts where he found inspiration.
The government says the purpose is to help protect the species given its dwindling forest habitat.
In Arizona, firefighters were building containment lines around a 3, 700-acre blaze on the Tonto National Forest to try to protect electric transmission lines that provide power to the state's major metropolitan areas.
The firm says the road will let fire-fighting vehicles into the forest and allow rangers to protect the tigers.
"Individuals, companies, schools and community groups across Wales will not only help protect a significant area of rainforest but forge lasting links with forest communities in Africa".
Beyond deploying liaisons to the Arizona Emergency Operations Center to help provide support to the state, FEMA has approved both of the requested Fire Management Assistance Grants to help respond, and the U.S. Forest Service has deployed more than 2, 500 interagency firefighters to protect lives and property.
In 1994, for example, Congress passed the Northwest Forest Plan, a measure that reduced logging on public lands partly in order to protect the northern spotted owl.
Muir fought to protect Yosemite and later Glacier Bay in Alaska, Mount Rainier in Washington and the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest in Arizona.
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