Sentence examples for increase forest cover from inspiring English sources
China said the programme, initially scheduled for release in April this year, would increase efficiency, make greater use of renewable energy and increase forest cover.
These policies are designed to increase forest cover, expand farmlands, and enhance soil and water conservation, while creating sustainable vegetation restoration.
The first two seek to increase forest cover by planting or management techniques, while the third is for forested land that is at risk of conversion and meets the requirement of additionality.
Hence the SFP failed to significantly increase forest cover or improve the livelihoods of the target populations.
Large-scale reforestation will rely at least in part on private landholders who are motivated to increase forest cover on their properties.
China's huge investment to increase forest cover seems likely to exacerbate environmental degradation in environmentally fragile areas because it has ignored climate, pedological, hydrological, and landscape factors that would make a site unsuitable for afforestation.
Increasing forest cover promoted species richness and size of flocks, with particularly strong associations in successional habitats and shade coffee.
Between 2125 and 750 cal year BP, increased forest cover produced more background charcoal than before and after this period, when vegetation was dominated by steppe.
The effect of forest cover changes on mean streamflow is well understood and worldwide data have shown that increasing forest cover decreases the total volume of flow at the catchment scale.
Through a panel instrumental variables approach we found that: i) conflict increased forest cover loss, ii) mining concessions increased forest cover loss, but in times of conflict this impact was lessened, and iii) protected areas reduced forest cover loss, even in high conflict regions.
This may still be in line with economic development policies, but it is at odds with forest conservation policies, REDD+ policies, and the GoL target of increasing forest cover in the country.
