talks about the programs that are implemented in three major parts of the world Brazil in South America, Congo Basin in Africa and Indonesia in Asia. A forest is a home of many animals, insects, and plants. Cutting down trees means making all of these creatures homeless and make them extinct. Deforestation means cutting down trees of a forest for other purposes such as to make a farm, for mining, to make roads and for grazing of cattle. Deforestation have a very serious effect on environment, but
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Afforestation is introduced by the government to protect forests to a certain extent. However, there are limitations as well. There are other measures that the government introduced to protect the forests- controlled logging, conservation and controlling forest fires. In afforestation, trees are planted in areas that were not originally covered with forests. Usually carried out in abandoned farmland. Trees are also planted in formerly forested areas that have been cleared by logging, which known
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PHILIPPINE FOREST Under our constitution, a forest is legally defined as “that portion of the public domain characterized by a predominant growth of trees or wood species, including nipa, mangrove, and all lands of the public domain not classified as agricultural, industrial, commercial, residential, resettlement, minerals or grazing lands”. It is often said that life comes from the forest. It is an area of land where flora and fauna are present. Types of Philippine Forests: * Dipterocarp
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Natural Resources and Energy Paper Christine Phipps, Kelly Doscher, Whitney Koba, Yharatzed Caceres, and Stuart Wilson SCI 256 May 9, 2010 Stephanie Gordon Natural Resources and Energy Paper In most tropical countries, only one tree is being replanted for every 10 cut down (Iowa Public Television, 1995-2010). Tropical rainforests “cover about 2% of earth’s surface, but house over half of world’s plant and animal species…” (Iowa Public Television, 1995-2010). Rainforests are vanishing quickly
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1. A graph showing the growth of forest volume over time looks like ... 1) A U shape 2) An inverted U shape 3) An S shape 4) A pyramid 5) A straight line 2. Maximizing the profit of timber harvesting involves all of the following except… 1) The total costs of harvesting 2) The total revenues from harvesting 3) The interest rate 4) The ecological value of forest diversity 5) The mean annual increment 3. The mean annual increment is calculated by ... 1) Dividing the annual
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hightlights of the Kent Ridge practical My perceptions of forests used to be being green, creepy and dark. Their only function I know is to act as “lungs of Earth”, to photosynthesize and make food. Before my Kent Ridge practical, I wondered why I have to step into the forest and get bitten by insects and mosquitoes, just to see plants and animals, some of which were boring and insignificant to look at. This practical has proven to me that forests are more than what they appear to be and certainly broadened
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1 1. Discuss 5 products that come from Tropical Rain Forest. There are a number of products that we as consumers use all of the time. First there is a product known as guava- a fruit that is grown in the tropical forest that is rich in dietary fiber and vitamin C. Second, Ginger is a plant grown in the tropical rain forest. Ginger is used as a delicacy for culinary purposes, medicine research, and this product from the rain forest of South Asia is often used as a spice. Next, tropical wood
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the world is facing in different ways. This tumultuous predicament had been as result of deforestation of forest trees and women and men who are environmentalist and eco-feminist had played many roles in fighting against the patriarchal capitalist from further destruction and advocating protection of the environment and forest reserves. Deforestation is cutting down of trees in the forest areas and within our surroundings which meets human natural needs and provides a dwelling to wild life and
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Rain Forest. The first discussions will be on five products that come from tropical rain forest. The second one is five major causes of deforestation which I will give you some clear examples. I also will discuss the third one that cover two reasons why is so difficult especially in the Amazon tropical Forest, and finally the discussion will be on the Water and Carbon Cycle and how deforestation impact bout cycles. First discussion: Five Products that come from the Tropical Rain Forest. One
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IMPLEMENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN PREVENTING FOREST FIRES IN INDONESIA Introduction Indonesia is a republic country, with Jakarta as capital city, and Indonesia one of the country in South East Asia which crossed by equator line, located between 2 continents (Asia and Australia) and between 2 oceans (Pacific and Indian oceans). Furthermore, Indonesia also the largest archipelago in the world, which consist of 13466 islands, where Java, Sumatera, Kalimantan (Borneo), Sulawesi and Papua
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