Breaking with past traditions, once silent in its diplomacy Saudi Arabian now confronts openly the regime in Syria and worries about Iran's interference - and encroachment -- in the region.
More than a century of fire suppression has profoundly altered the Southwest's grasslands and forests, triggering woody encroachment in the former and allowing the buildup of extraordinary fuel loads in the latter.
Despite the high level of disturbance due to tree felling, fire, and encroachment, the higher diversity in the Lohit, Changlang and Tirap districts may be due to the higher rainfall as compared to other parts of the state, which promotes soil nutrient and pH to facilitate organic matter decomposition.
The advancement of the conjugates of calixarenes in the nanoworld can be considered as one of the most recent encroachment in the calixarene chemistry and is expected to come out as a major thrust research area in near future.
British diplomacy, proudly eschewing alliances in favour of "splendid isolation," sought to preserve a balance of power on the Continent and to protect the routes to India from Russian encroachment in the Middle East or Afghanistan.
Oba et al. ([2000]) reported that bush encroachment in the Borana rangelands reduces livestock productivity and survival particularly during drought years, when forage scarcity is the greatest.
Against this background, the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) decided to fund an interdisciplinary research study on "Woody Encroachment in the Afar Region, Ethiopia: Impact Assessment of Prosopis Invasion and Participative Management Approaches".
"Upstate, an encroachment of a foot or two may not be as serious as a six-inch encroachment in the suburbs," he said.
They quoted the commander as saying that the targets were tribal elders who had helped organize a militia to resist Taliban encroachment in the area.
The Kremlin's intervention last October allowed the regime to resist rebel encroachment in the coastal province, whose main cities have remained loyal to Assad.
The Park Service has decided to seek more of Graymoor's land to preclude a similar encroachment in the future, she said.
