many reasons: trees are cut down to be used or sold as fuel (sometimes in the form of charcoal) or timber‚ while cleared land is used as pasture for livestock‚ plantations of commodities and settlements. The removal of trees without sufficient reforestation has resulted in damage to habitat‚ biodiversity loss and aridity. It has adverse impacts on bio sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Although deforestation meets some human needs‚ it also have profound‚ sometimes devastating‚ consequences
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Cover photos: Seven themes of sustainable forest management Left‚ top to bottom: Forest biological diversity (M.P. Wilkie); Forest health and vitality (FAO/FO-0506/C. Palmberg Lerche); Productive functions of forest resources (FAO/FO-6960/J. Carle) Centre: Extent of forest resources (M.P. Wilkie) Right‚ top to bottom: Protective functions of forest resources (M.L. Wilkie); Socio-economic functions of forests (FAO/FO-5154/Veracel); Legal‚ policy and institutional framework (FAO/24683_1206/G. Napolitano)
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INTRODUCTION According to Oxford Dictionary‚ biodiversity means the state of having a large amount of different number of animals and plants which make a balanced environment. Biodiversity is also known as flora and fauna. The meaning of flora is all the plants growing in a particular area while fauna means all the animals of an area or a period of time. Rafflessia for flora while tiger for fauna is a case in point. Crisis on the other hand means a time of great danger or difficulty‚ the moment
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Tropical Rain Forest and Tropical Grassland1 I. Objectives The following are the objectives of the study: 1. To describe the plant species composition of a tropical forest and tropical grassland found in Mt. Makiling; 2. To compare the diversity indices of the two sampling sites. 3. To identify the most dominant species and rarest species in each site. 4. To identify the disturbances acting on the two sampling sites. II. Methodology
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1.0 INTRODUCTION “Pollution has caused many kinds of effects to the environment that the different forms of pollutions are harder to be controlled and sadly‚ they have become more serious throughout the years. Apparently‚ other than natural disaster it is evident that the major cause of pollution is the irresponsible act of human being. Global warming has become a hot topic nowadays and we must take up the responsibility to resolve this problem. Global warming can be defined as the unusually rapid
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Plan B 4.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization Book Review Lester Brown is not only an environmental activist and founder/president of the non-profit environmental think tank known as the Earth Policy Institute‚ but he is also an accomplished author. In his book‚ Plan B 4.0 (his latest of three priors and most updated rendition of Plan B)‚ Brown pushes his audience to get on board with his plans to restructure the global economy by stabilizing climate and population‚ eradicating poverty‚ reversing
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1.0 Introduction YTL Corporation Berhad (YTL) is a Malaysia-based infrastructure conglomerate founded by Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Yeoh Tiong Lay in 1955 (YTL‚ 2013). The principal activity of the company is investment holding and management (YTL‚ 2013). The current managing director is Tan Sri Dato’ (Dr) Francis Yeoh Sock Ping (YTL‚ 2013). YTL is listed on Bursa Malaysia since 1985‚ and it was the first Asian non-Japanese company to be listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1996 (YTL‚ 2012). “World Class Products
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United Nations Development Programme CASE STUDIES OF S U S TA I N A B L E D E V E LO P M E N T I N P R AC T I C E TRIPLE WINS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT United Nations Development Programme C A S E S T U D I E S O F S U S TA I N A B L E D E V E LO P M E N T I N P R AC T I C E TRIPLE WINS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT United Nations Development Programme June 2012 Copyright © 2012 United Nations Development Programme. All rights reserved. This publication or parts of it may
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operated along with the Quezon City government‚ Bantay Kalikasan and other private companies. The La Mesa Ecopark is a 33 hectare park located in the La Mesa Watershed. The park was opened to the public in 2004 to generate income to help with the reforestation of the area surrounding the watershed and to create funds for the watershed’s maintenance. The Ecopark sits on 2700 hectares‚ divided between 700 hectares of the reservoir and 2000 hectares of forest. As the primary source of drinking water of Metro
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Among other provisions‚ the CARPER bill mandates that private agricultural lands – the type that the Arroyos and the Cojuangcos own – can only be distributed if the original CARP managed to distribute 90 percent of its target. But CARP‚ despite the two decades it had‚ only distributed less than half of it. It’s an impossible provision that only underscores what progressive farmers have been saying all along – that CARPER is bogus. MANILA – It seemed incongruous‚ the sight of farmers marching toward
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