Sentence examples for rainforest restoration from inspiring English sources

Wenders says the key was the photographer's emotional and psychological trauma after spending months in Rwanda and Congo during the period of the genocide in the mid-90s, followed by his subsequent return to Brazil and involvement in rainforest restoration.

Between-site variability and slow colonisation by regional endemics strongly constrain the potential of rainforest restoration to offset the biodiversity impacts of tropical deforestation.

We assessed beetle species assemblages with flight interception traps, in sites undergoing rainforest restoration across the largely cleared landscape of the Atherton Tablelands in north-eastern Queensland, Australia.

Here we test the capacity of intensive high diversity rainforest restoration plantings to develop forest-like bird communities beyond their first decade of growth.

Restoring the Rainforest Another RSF borrower, Guayakí, has pioneered what it calls the market-driven restoration model, developed in pursuit of a mission to restore 200,000 acres of endangered South American rainforest and create more than 1,000 living-wage jobs by 2020 in communities that would otherwise face intense economic pressure to destroy the rainforest to raise cattle or grow soy.

Here, we assess sugar cane company restoration projects in an Atlantic rainforest region of northeast Brazil.

The use of revegetation techniques which lead to more rainforest-like structural conditions appears to be of over-riding importance in catalysing the rapid acquisition of volant rainforest beetle assemblages in the initial stages of restoration.

Older restoration sites were structurally most similar to rainforest.

Guayakí's sales have led to the restoration of more than 31,000 acres of rainforest, yet 35 million more are lost every year to timber harvesting, cattle ranching, and monocrop farming.

We quantified developmental trajectories following active restoration (replanting) of deforested pasture land to tropical Australian rainforest, using 20 different bird community indicators within chronosequences of multiple sites.

Data analyses showed that bird communities in restoration plantings did not become more similar to those of reference rainforest during their second decade of development.