We had a vegetation cover of 85 , made up of native forest, which was made up mostly of nut and cupuaçu trees.

They either abide by the law, or they close down.

Everywhere there has been constant extraction of mineral, killing animals, the logging timbers and so on.

Somewhere in the Amazon forest is the marginal tree.

There were a lot of them.

The deforestation, the growth of human populations, needing more land.

A meat eater in this room will consume, on average, 8,000 animals in their lifetime.

Mountains were deforested, stripped and leveled.

My childhood summers were in the Puget Sound of Washington, among the first growth and big growth.

Eighteen percent of our contribution to greenhouse gas emissions worldwide is the result of deforestation.

Now I actually think that these ideas will change the economics of deforestation.

Much of it comes not only because of cutting, but also burning.

If it burns in a forest fire, it's going to give that carbon back to the atmosphere as well.

Because I don't just stand around,

We're going to have to say, no more logging in the Amazon for 20 years.

You'll see scenes like this all over the island.

There are regulations that it's prohibited to do logging, mining and poaching, specifically.

It had occurred on land, in rainforests of South America and Africa, where landowners had been paid not to cut the trees down.

If one member trespasses the agreement, and does cut down trees, the other 19 members have to decide what's going to happen to him.

And an example is the TACARE program.

There are models for sustainable forestry that allow us to cut trees properly, and those are the only trees appropriate to use for these kinds of systems.

So I decided that I had to come up with a solution for her but also a solution that will benefit the people that are trying to exploit those forests, to get their hands on the last timber and that are causing, in that way, the loss of habitat and all those victims.

And the Chinese government responded sensibly and placed a ban on felling.

You can take virtually any parameter that matters for human well being nitrous oxide, methane, deforestation, overfishing

I make a living from it,

We build cities, suburbs, and farms on top of frog habitat and chop forests and drain the wetlands that serve as home for numerous amphibian populations.

We're going to have to have no take zones.

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Trees suck up huge amounts of CO2, which balances the cycle.

like so many other creatures around the world, are losing their habitats.

When the farmers could not get to the woods and swamps with their teams, and were obliged to cut down the shade trees before their houses, and, when the crust was harder, cut off the trees in the swamps, ten feet from the ground, as it appeared the next spring.

The flower bed was not quite bare.

The damage was so severe because the primary energy fuel in Haiti is charcoal, which is made from trees, which is made from trees, and it's left the country almost completely deforested.

These are the 15 commodities that fundamentally pose the biggest threats to these places because of deforestation, soil loss, water use, pesticide use, over fishing, etc.

I was raised in the forests of British Columbia to believe those forests existed to be cut.

Simon Taylor and Patrick Alley, we set up an organization called Global Witness.

At the rate at which we're going now, the Philippines will lose all its accessible loggable forest within five years.

I recorded a number of examples of the same dawn choruses, and now this is what we've got.

And he's brought the internet and satellite technology to the forest both so that people themselves could monitor the deforestation, but also that he could speak from the forest to the rest of the world.

Now, these distinctions are not hard to cut.

They were from militia corp.

Food for thought, these are things we have to sleep on

And the people who made money from Brazil nuts were not the people who made money from cutting the forests.

And swat us away like flies, the way we swat away flies when we go into the rainforest and start logging it.

If people live inside of the green barrier they can help support the trees, protect them from humans, and from some of the forces of nature.