Sentence examples for maintaining forest from inspiring English sources

Projects included planting trees, building flood barriers, fighting forest fires, and maintaining forest roads and trails.

At a news conference, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said his department was trying to put a new emphasis on maintaining "forest resiliency".

It makes sense, therefore, to come up with ways to make maintaining forest as rewarding for Brazil as it is for the world, once the broader benefits and opportunity-costs are taken into account.

Tree species richness is vital for maintaining forest productivity.

The focus of REDD+ is sensu stricto on maintaining forest carbon stocks.

In contrast, the park has been largely successful in maintaining forest cover.

Costa Rica has a pioneering ecosystem services law that, among other things, rewards landholders financially for maintaining forests and thus reliable water flow for downstream hydroelectric generation.

Mr. Caldecott has backed proposals for the fund to deliver emissions reductions through public or private contractors in projects like building solar energy systems in Sub-Saharan Africa or maintaining forests in Southeast Asia.

For example, the reduction of CO2 emissions could be facilitated by both maintaining forests' carbon stocks and sustainably producing timber as a carbon-neutral material (IPCC 2000; IPCC 2007).

REDD clearly provides an opportunity for biodiverse, carbon-rich tropical countries to protect threatened biodiversity as a co-benefit of maintaining forests and the carbon they store [11, 13].

Decisions about future land use are driven by the potential income from alternative forms of land management rather than maintaining forests as non-disposable intangible assets.