Successful plantation efforts growing Robinia pseudoacacia L. (black locust) in the drier regions of Hungary and East Germany (Brandenburg), have demonstrated the potential of black locust as an alternative tree species for short-rotation biomass energy plantations.
Successful plantation efforts growing Robinia pseudoacacia L. (black locust) in the drier regions of Hungary and East Germany (Brandenburg) (Rédei [2002]; Rédei et al. [2008]; Grünewald et al. [2009]), with an annual mean precipitation lower than 600 mm yr−1, have demonstrated the potential of black locust as an alternative tree species for short-rotation biomass energy plantations.
As almost all the accessible land is over-cultivated or used intensively for grazing, protection, and conservation of these degraded sites through integrated soil and water conservation practices (ISWC) such as stone-faced terraces, enforcement of grazing restrictions and plantation development efforts are commonly practiced [3, 4].
McCain was still badly hobbled by his injuries, earning the nickname "Crip" among the other POWs, but despite his physical condition, continued beatings and isolation, he was one of the key players in the Plantation's resistance efforts.
Despite the forest plantation and conservation effort since 1980 in the catchment, forest cover has declined by about 83.83% (87.2 ha/year).
Determined Japanese resistance along the Ratsua front resulted in an amphibious landing by a company from the 31st/51st Battalion around Porton Plantation, in an effort to outflank Ratsua.
These differences affect soil restoration, tree regeneration and other ecological processes important to selecting species for tropical plantation establishment and reforestation efforts.
Forest fires intentionally set in Indonesia to clear the land to plant oil palm plantations and other development efforts are burning out of control, inflamed by the unusually dry weather caused by the El Niño event.
The Robin Hood Laptop Project offers computers to kids who otherwise wouldn't have the technological literacy to escape the plantations, and even some tea plantations have made their own efforts to provide educational opportunities to the tea pluckers' children, like Fair Trade gardens in India, which require children stay in school until graduation.
Despite efforts to preserve plantation production, Suriname's position as an agricultural supplier declined.
The RSPO was established to set and enforce environmental standards for palm oil production, but has run into trouble after palm plantation companies in Indonesia and Malaysia blocked efforts to curb their greenhouse gas emissions.
