Growth forests

rainforest is home to the endangered cassowary. The flightless bird plays an important role in spreading seeds to continue rainforest growth but much of its habitat was decimated by Cyclone Yasi. Rainforest Rescue spokesman Sean O'Shannessy says cassowaries around Mission Beach are hungry. "There are many reports coming in about cassowaries emerging from the forest showing signs of heat stress and apparently looking for food," he

biodiversity across entire regions of the Amazon has found a clear 'threshold' for forest cover below which species loss becomes more rapid and widespread. Researchers found that for every 10% of forest loss, one to two major species are wiped out. Once the threshold reaches 43% of forest cover lost the rate of biodiversity loss jumps from between two to up to eight major species gone per 10% of disappeared forest. Researchers say that the focus should be shifted to maintaining 50% cover. Unless

Algonquin Provincial Park, a park that located between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River in Central Ontario, was established in 1893 and it is the oldest provincial park in Canada. As a big forest, here is a question, should logging be allowed in Algonquin Park? The answer should be yes. There are a number of benefits of logging, such as timber resources, land resources, and job opportunities. However, it should be limited. In an ecosystem, balance is the most important thing. First of all, wood

The World Wildlife Fund stated that Australia contains fragments of tropical forests that 15 million years ago may have spanned both Australia and Antarctica. The scattered rainforests contain elements characteristic of all forest categories. The result is a variety of plant communities that are extremely diverse. Throughout the forest over 700 species of plants and animals can be discovered (Queensland Tropical Forests, 2015).In the article, Recruitment dynamics of invasive species in rainforest

in tropical rainforests, which are primarily in developing countries, this does not equate it to national problems, instead it is an issue, which through the rise of economic globalization, means that the global population are bearing down on the forests as well. The surface issues are agricultural expansion and infrastructure expansion, with deeper root causes, which fall under the political and social scope. These underlying causes “are fundamental forces that underpin the more obvious or proximate

Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) Program – Equity and Effectiveness Introduction Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) is a program that, like its name suggests, has the main objective of reducing the emission levels of green-house gases from land uses, through incentives in developing countries. The program includes measures related to conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forests carbon stocks (United Nations Framework

Pollution and Environmental Degradation are things that the large majority of humans contributes to some small or large way on the daily. Whether it is our mode of transportation, throwing a piece of trash on the ground, buying products made from trees, and to be perfectly honest the concentration in which we live, by which I mean the proximity of the average residents in which we reside. These all seem like regular everyday things that are just normal. But in the past things like these were so beyond

The paper introduces one of the earliest experimental forests that is also regarded as a forestry research center, the Priest River Experimental Forest (PREF). The forest was established in 1911, lies between the Priest River and the Selkirk Mountains in the State of Idaho. By interpreting its particular existing conditions, including geography, climate, hydrology, soil, vegetation, readers can easily understand its significant role in the region of Northern Rocky Mountain, providing many valuable

Deforestation is increasing global actions with environmental and economic outcomes. It refers to the destruction of tropical forests, primarily done by human activities such as logging and agriculture. Eighty percent of Earth's land animals and plants live in forests that results with deforestation. By the act of deforestation, humans are destroying the homes and killing individual species that habitat there. In addition to the harm, deforestations strike on animals is also having a devastating

the quarry to different sites on the island. Islanders used the tree trunks as rollers since they had to rely on human power to move them. Excessive use of wooded areas resulted in over six hundred large stone statues being made and most of the forest disappearing by the 1600s. The disappearance of the wooded areas brought about great changes to the islander's way of life. One change was that the islanders could no longer build houses out of wood and instead had to find new places to live.