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Protected area review > Vietnam > Ba Be National Park
Number of forest violation cases in 2000: Illegal exploitation of forest products: 34 cases; Forest clearance for cultivation: 17 cases; Illegal transportation of forest ...
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Conservation
A comprehensive survey in October 2003 and subsequent monitoring suggest that now no more than 20 remain, restricted to a 16 km2 patch of forest ... Allocebus trichotis) in Eastern Madagascar (Karla Biebouw, 2005) Habitat requirements and the effects of forest fragmentation on the western hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock hoolock) in Lawachara National Park, Bangladesh ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – 2004 Photo Gallery
Gughe Mountains are heavily populated and intensively cultivated, and only small patches of montane forest remain. Photo © ... greater access to this plant’s only known location and may result in more forest clearance and encroachment agriculture into the area. Photo © Frank van der Laan. Hyperolius ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Search
Forest Threats Threats: The main threats are forest clearance, human settlement, and agricultural encroachment. The Gughe Mountains are heavily populated and intensively cultivated, and only small patches of montane forest ...
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Biodiversity Conservation System
It must, however, be stressed that this argument applies to tropical moist forest as `forest', rather than as `a highly diverse ecosystem'. ... fixation, such as tropical freshwater swamps, although these are far less diverse than tropical moist forest. In more general terms, there appears to be no direct or obvious link between ...
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Global Forest Watch: Indonesia
Forest clearance by small-scale farmers is a significant but not dominant cause of deforestation. ... scale estimates of forest clearance by forest pioneers have not been made. Large-scale plantation owners have turned to the use of fire as a cheap and easy means of clearing forest for further ...
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Suriname illegal timber concessions Omnicorp Sino-Forest Greenheart Tacoba Xinhui CIMC Simon Murray GEMS Samling Barama Macquarie exports flooring China Hong Kng stock exchange Guyana OOCL Asset stripping Investment
Suriname. There is now substantial renewed Chinese interest in exploiting the weakly managed forest of Suriname. Of particular current interest is the prospective sale of logging rights to ... sale of logs felled during the clearance of that forest. The cash flow profile of the project would be U-shaped, investment being required after profitable forest clearance and before net profits were ...
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Oxfam's Cool Planet - On the Line - tropical rain forest - deforestation, the effects
But that's not the end of the story. Forest clearance also leaves human forest dwellers without food or shelter, and leads to the disappearance of ways of life which have existed largely unchanged for thousands of years. However, potentially the most damaging effect of forest clearance ...
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Oxfam's Cool Planet - On the Line - deforestation of the tropical rain forest - printable version
But that's not the end of the story. Forest clearance also leaves human forest dwellers without food or shelter, and leads to the disappearance of ways of life which have existed largely unchanged for thousands of years. However, potentially the most damaging effect of forest clearance ...
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WWF - Forest conservation through the decades
Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use was formed as a strategic partnership in response to the continued depletion of the world's forest loss and the consequent impacts. 1997/98 Forest clearance for commercial plantations led to raging forest fires in Indonesia, costing an estimate economic ...
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