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Friends of the Earth: Campaigners
UK has been officially described as catastrophic. Lowland raised bog SSSIs threatened by commercial peat extraction April 1998 With our peatlands still being mined ... of peat firms and garden centres, less than six per cent of Britain's original lowland raised peat bog habitat remains in a near natural condition. Indonesian forest fires October 1997 Forest ...
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Friends of the Earth: General readers
UK Government new designation of our three largest lowland raised peatbogs as Special Areas of Conservation (SAC's). Lowland raised bog SSSIs threatened by commercial peat extraction April 1998 With ... of peat firms and garden centres, less than six per cent of Britain's original lowland raised peat bog habitat remains in a near natural condition. Indonesian forest fires October 1997 ...
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Lowland Wetland
Several types of lowland wetland are Priority Habitats under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh Fens Lowland raised bog Reedbeds Raised bog is an acidic, ... Surfaces (2005) Report 365 Characterisation of Hydrological Protection Zones at the Margins of Designated Lowland Raised Peat Bog Sites (2005) National Report submitted to the 8th Meeting of the ...
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Restoration Round-up (Do or Die)
England".(27) Under the INF Treaty, the missile silos must remain under the control of ... , planted 20,000 trees and moved 20,000 cubic metres of soil, lowering the artificially raised floodplain "to allow the river to overspill its meandering banks but still protect surrounding houses ...
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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
The cattle and sheep that provide meat are often raised on pastures that were cut or burned out of forests that once stored carbon. Economic ... sides of mountains when heavy storms occur. Nor can they continue to grow rice on lowland soil that has been made saline by the infiltration of sea water into aquifers. The ...
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IPCC information sheets - What bogs have been conserved
They include fens, raised bogs, lowland and upland blanket bogs and several transitional types which together exceed 1.3 million hectares ... given the NHA designation to 23,628ha or 8% of the original raised bog area. These are all active raised bogs and are of priority for conservation under the Habitats Directive. ...
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Controversy Over Permit to Rebuild Taylor Camps on Allagash Wilderness Waterway
Interestingly, the issue of historic preservation versus wilderness character is being raised simultaneously south of the Allagash at Maine’s other famed wilderness area, Baxter State Park ... would be moved back from the water as far as possible without encroaching on a lowland or having to cut down large trees, according to BPL’s permit application. They would ...
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The Jane Goodall Institute
Wildlife researchers said Tuesday that they've discovered 125,000 western lowland gorillas deep in the forests of the Republic of Congo, ... 2004 — Ethics as the argument — Newsday New questions are raised about whether the gains of animal research are worth the ... — The Guardian "In 10 years, the world population of eastern lowland gorillas has fallen by 70%, researchers said yesterday." 3/23/ ...
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Habitats
Pesticides and Toxic Substances Coastal Freshwater habitat Lowland Grassland Lowland Grassland LBAP Workshop Newsletter Lowland Heathland Newsletter Seminar - Changing Landscapes Lowland Wetland Soils Newsletter Uplands Seminar - Managing upland ... the European and biogeographical ranges of habitats such as estuaries, heaths and raised bogs, and also has some habitats such as Caledonian pine forest ...
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IPCC information sheets - Raised Bogs
Lowland blanket bogs which are found in low-lying (below 200m) areas of western counties. (ii) Mountain blanket bogs which are found in mountainous areas (above 200m) throughout the country. · Raised Bogs ... west, south west and north west of Ireland experience over 175 rain-days each year. Lowland blanket bogs are found extensively in these high rainfall areas. Mountain blanket bogs occur in ...
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