Save the rainforest!

Willie Smits restores a rainforest

Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest. A well designed fund would slow or stop deforestation, preserve biodiversity, and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide the burning of cleared forests.

Deforestation

Within a year, Rainforest Crunch was on the shelves.

It may be the next rainforest, in terms of pharmaceuticals.

I like to think of bathrooms like a tropical rainforest.

81. RainForest ReGeneration Institute, Washington D.C., United States of America

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

The next big issue, deforestation.

This is the tower in the middle of the rainforest, from above.

This is the tower in the middle of the rainforest, from above.

So I said, Well, you've got to make a rainforest ice cream.

It's a bit like going and cataloging a piece of the rainforest.

loss of rainforest and woodland, increases in domesticated land, and species exinctions.

So we had our own miniature rainforest, a private beach with a coral reef.

Nineteen million hectares of rainforest are lost every year to create new arable land.

So clearly there was a problem with deforestation.

Underlying causes of deforestation are complex and varied.

So clearly there was a problem with deforestation.

Conversely, deforestation can contribute to land degradation and desertification.

And here the light green are areas of massive deforestation.

The deforestation, the growth of human populations, needing more land.

Every year we lose 50 thousand square miles in deforestation.

Another global consequence of deforestation is loss of biological diversity.

Seven Parties proposed projects to slow deforestation and assist regeneration.

Progress has been made in specifying and estimating the model of the dynamics of Amazon deforestation as well as the consequences of deforestation for carbon dioxide emissions.

Conscious of the negative ecological impact of the hurricane on the coastal region and the inland rainforest,

You're talking about biodensities and biodiversity, again, higher than the rainforest that just springs back to life.

Several ecosystems in Brazil need to be protected, such as the Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic forest.

In the last years of 1980's the annual deforestation rate was estimated at 0.8 and deforestation covered 120ha, whereas reforestation was only of about 4,000 ha year.

And finally, there's deforestation, and there's emission of methane from agriculture.

Palm oil production is the leading cause of deforestation in Indonesia.

(g) Perverse subsidies and their impact on deforestation and forest degradation

And finally, there's deforestation, and there's emission of methane from agriculture.

Jodi Lomask, and her wonderful troupe Capacitor, joined me in the canopy in my rainforest site in Costa Rica.

Deforestation in the Panama Canal basin is a matter of particular concern.

The challenges of the alarming rate of deforestation and forest degradation remain serious.

Also, there is evidence that combating deforestation stems the spread of harmful pathogens.

Now I actually think that these ideas will change the economics of deforestation.

Measures taken to combat deforestation and forest degradation include the development and implementation of national forest programmes (and similar frameworks), management guidelines, financial encouragement, removal of perverse incentives for deforestation and public information campaigns.

Activities of the project, which started in June 1994, have been devoted to the examination of country level causal analyses and deforestation rates in 90 tropical countries with respect to independent variables causing deforestation.

The Eastern Hemlock forest is being considered in some ways the last fragments of primeval rainforest east of the Mississippi River.

We've done this for a very difficult case, which was for deforestation in China.

And we don't have any industry at all it's only because of this deforestation.