But the battle against deforestation is not lost.

The hunting level is viewed as unsustainable.

Online petitions against deforestation in the Amazon are attempting to mobilize society.

However, gorillas remain vulnerable to Ebola, deforestation, and poaching.

Deforestation must be reversed, not accelerated.

And here the light green are areas of massive deforestation.

Their habitat is threatened by deforestation.

And here the light green are areas of massive deforestation.

But Indonesia is number three, owing to its rapid deforestation.

There is mounting evidence for massive deforestation and erosion throughout the Central Area.

The others were likely all made extinct by a combination of excessive hunting and deforestation.

The main sources of deforestation in the Amazon are human settlement and development of the land.

That's remarkable, but up until now, there weren't ways to do it without cutting down trees.

First ecological damages were reported in the 18th century, as the multiplication of colonies caused deforestation.

Seven Parties proposed projects to slow deforestation and assist regeneration.

At this rate there will be no forests in Haiti by 1998.

Brazil has significantly reduced the rate of deforestation in the Amazon.

Deforestation as result of illegal logging and land encroachment for agricultural activities is one of the main threats to the park.

We identified six universal goals for sustainable development lives and livelihoods, food security, water sustainability, clean energy, healthy ecosystems, and good governance.

The next step is to define measurable targets, such as better lives for slum dwellers or reduced deforestation.

Negara negara industri, seperti Amerika Serikat dan anggota Uni Eropa, mempunyai tanggung jawab khusus untuk memberikan solusi terhadap masalah deforestasi.

This creates a great deal of pressure for deforestation which is both clandestine and difficult to inspect.

Most of these forests were ancient, ecologically complex primary forests, and huia were unable to survive in regenerating secondary forests.

In Brazil, the Acão Democrática Feminina Gaúcha, a women's development organization, opposes indiscriminate and illegal logging activities in the Amazon rainforest.

Forests have deteriorated, due to illegal harvesting and encroachment for agriculture and settlement.13

We have the means already in our hands, through a structure, through a mechanism, called REDD Plus a scheme for the reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

And nothing was done about deforestation, which is contributing almost as much to increases in greenhouse gas concentrations as the US.

An important measure to curb illegal logging is to ensure that consumer countries make greater efforts to limit the market share for illegal timber.

Sustainable production from forest resources and the conservation of biodiversity are assured by a forest working plan and a time tested selective felling system.

According to one risk analysis firm, North Korea had the third highest deforestation rate among 180 countries surveyed and the UN estimates that North Korea had lost almost one third of its entire forest mass.

Land is lost to urbanization, desertification, and salinization as fast as it is added by clearing forests and plowing grasslands.amp 160

For example, Paraguay, which until 2004 had one of the world s highest rates of deforestation, has reduced rates in its eastern region by 85 .

In many SIDS the growth of commercial farming has been accompanied by the establishment of large scale plantations through either land consolidation, deforestation or both.

There are major things we can do on the basis of existing knowledge on deforestation, energy efficiency and renewables to make a big difference over the next decade.

Cleverly, Norway pays out the funds to Brazil only upon proven success in avoiding deforestation (compared with an agreed baseline).

Another reason for such sordid state of affairs is mindless development with massive deforestation, throwing the indigenous population out of its traditional comfort zones.

Most agricultural emissions come from tropical deforestation, methane from animals and rice fields, and nitrous oxide from over fertilizing.

Halting the cutting and burning of tropical forests, which are found almost exclusively in developing nations, is among the most readily achievable and effective possible steps to reduce carbon emissions.

Tropical forests, for example, hold the majority of bird species and likely most other kinds of species too. If present trends of deforestation continue, we project bird extinction rates to climb to 1,500 E MSY by the last decades of this century.

If present trends of deforestation continue, we project bird extinction rates to climb to 1,500 E MSY by the last decades of this century.

After cutting down a swath of rainforest, soils are often quickly leached of their nutrients so that they cannot sustain crops or nutritious grasses for livestock.

Costa Rica succeeded in turning its forests from being a source of emissions to being a sink of carbon in 1995 the rate of deforestation has decreased and the rate of forest regeneration has increased since 1990 and is expected to continue to grow up to 2015.

Sendero, which supplemented its income with drug production and timber smuggling, deliberately chose drought weakened and deforested mountain villages as the stronghold of its insurgency. Similarly, the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, which has claimed 10,000 lives, exploits the desperation of mountain villagers hit by flash floods the result of deforestation higher up.

Similarly, the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, which has claimed 10,000 lives, exploits the desperation of mountain villagers hit by flash floods the result of deforestation higher up.

Putin warns against illegal logging of the Baikal taiga