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Interactive Forest Maps -- World Resources Institute: Frontier Forests of the World Bodleian Library Map Room -- University ... and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, ...
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Reviews published in Global biodiversity by the Canadian Museum of Nature
Dalby), 6(2): 41. Bryant, Dirk et al. The last frontier forests: Ecosystems and economies on the edge (John Whiting), 8(1): 28 ... (4): 45. Frame, B., J. Victor, Y. Joshi. Biodiversity and conservation: Forests, wetlands and deserts (J. Ditchfield), 5(3): 42. Frankel, Otto. ... 4(3): 47. Schoonmaker, Peter K. et al (eds). The rain forests of home: Profile of a North American bioregion (Kristin DeBoer), 7 ...
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Committee Against Oil Exploration - Campaign Against Offshore Oil Drilling
Since 1988, the oil industry has drilled more than 100,000 exploratory wells, threatening frontier forests in 22 countries, coral reefs in 38 countries, mangrove swamps in 46 countries, indigenous people ...
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Global Forest Watch - Brazil - Brazil's Forests in Brief
Brazil's frontier forests comprise 17 percent of the world's remaining frontiers, making it the third highest ranked country in terms of remaining frontier forest. Brazil has the third largest block of remaining frontier ...
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Global Forest Watch - Chile - Chile's Forests
Overview · Forests · Publications & Maps · News Support GFW in Chile Chile's Forests in Brief Excerpts from Chile's Frontier Forests: Conserving a Global Treasure (PDF) Key Findings Although native forests still ... 10,000 hectares. Frontier forests are at greatest risk within: Coastal mountain range forests in administrative Region X, which house 7.5 percent of Chile 's remaining frontier forest, but ...
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Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. Chapter 3 FORESTS SHRINKING climate ecosystem global economy carbon emissions dust storm Dust Bowl overgrazing oceanic fisheries forests deforestation Brazil China Amazon Amazonian rainforest land degradati
Interim Report (Geneva: Economic and Social Department, April 2000). 25. Forest Frontiers Initiative, The Last Frontier Forests: Ecosystems and Economies on the Edge (Washington, DC: WRI, 1997). 26. FAO, op. cit. ...
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Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Chapter 5. Natural Systems under stress shrinking forests deforestation losing soil erosion deteriorating rangelands advancing deserts desertification collapsing fisheries internati
Only 40 percent of the world’s remaining forest cover can be classified as frontier forest, which WRI defines as “large, intact, natural forest systems relatively undisturbed and ... : Towards 2015/30, Technical Interim Report (Rome: 2000). 9. Forest Frontiers Initiative, The Last Frontier Forests: Ecosystems and Economies on the Edge (Washington, DC: WRI, 1997). 10. FAO, FAOSTAT Statistics ...
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WWF - Problems: Introduction
Can Help News & Facts FAQ search Home > About WWF > What We Do > Forests > Problems Forests About Forests Problems Illegal logging Economic costs Social impacts Forest fires Forest conversion Orangutans & ... frontier and depend more on forest resources like fuelwood. Therefore, with the destruction of the world's forests we not only see forest loss but the destruction of all the benefits which forests ...
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EIA - The Environmental Investigation Agency: Forests for the World Campaign | Reports & Briefings
Agency: Forests for the World Campaign | Reports & Briefings CAMPAIGNS SPECIES IN PERIL FORESTS CAMPAIGN NEWS WHAT CAN I DO? REPORTS & BRIEFINGS BACKGROUND INFO LINKS success stories GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FORESTS FOR THE ... in Papua and China's Massive Timber Theft EIA/Telapak’s new report - "The Last Frontier" - is based on a series of undercover investigations in Papua, Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong ...
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The Frontier Mentality Lives On
The logging community, with encouragement from State and Industry, feel that it is 'their' forests to plunder and react violently to anyone trying to protect the land. As they did ... a history that Australia as a society is yet to acknowledge. Without that acknowledgement the frontier mentality lives on. Michelle van Gerrevink References - Bruce Elder, Blood on the Wattle, 1998. P ...
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