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Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an open-source web application to monitor global forests in near real-time. GFW is an initiative of the World Resources Institute (WRI), with partners including Google , USAID , the University of Maryland (UMD), Esri , Vizzuality and many other academic, non-profit, public, and private organizations.
The direct causes of deforestation within the DRC are well understood and have been identified consistently by many sources. [2] [3] [9] The direct causes are as follows: 1) road infrastructure development, 2) slashing and burning the forests to transform forest land into agricultural land, 3) the collection of fuelwood and charcoal, and lastly 4) unregulated artisanal and small-scale logging.
Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use. [1] Deforestation can involve conversion of forest land to farms, ranches, or urban use. About 31% of Earth's land surface is covered by forests at present. [2]
A distinctive swamp forest community is found along the lower reaches of the Kagera River west of Lake Victoria, on the border of Tanzania and Uganda. The Tanzanian portion is known as the Minziro Forest, and the Ugandan portion as the Sango Bay forests. Baikieaea insignis subsp. minor and Afrocarpus dawei are the dominant canopy trees. [8]
The ecoregion contains flooded forests and terra firme forests. [1] The flooded forests are either igapó, flooded daily by clear blackwater rivers, or várzea, flooded daily by whitewater rivers that take their color from suspended soil and organic matter. The igapó forests are adapted to acidic white sand soils that are poor in nutrients.
The Swiss pine is a member of the white pine group, Pinus subgenus Strobus, and like all members of that group, the leaves ('needles') are in fascicles (bundles) of five, with a deciduous sheath.
Status of the red-tailed black cockatoo as a species, and as a subspecies, also varies from state to state within Australia. For example: The south-eastern red-tailed black cockatoo subspecies C. b. graptogyne is listed as endangered on Schedule 7 of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 of South Australia. [60] and is the smallest of the ...
Amazonian evergreen forests account for about 10% of the world's terrestrial primary productivity and 10% of the carbon stores in ecosystems [94] – of the order of 1.1 × 10 11 metric tonnes of carbon. [95] Amazonian forests are estimated to have accumulated 0.62 ± 0.37 tons of carbon per hectare per year between 1975 and 1996. [95]