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

Somewhere in the Amazon forest is the marginal tree.

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

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

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

There were a lot of them.

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

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

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

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

Mountains were deforested, stripped and leveled.

Because I don't just stand around,

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

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

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

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

And an example is the TACARE program.

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.

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

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

I make a living from it,

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Now, these distinctions are not hard to cut.

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.

Around the world, slaves are used to destroy the environment, cutting down trees in the Amazon destroying forest areas in West Africa mining and spreading mercury around in places like Ghana and the Congo destroying the coastal ecosystems in South Asia.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

If you start to say no to timber of suspicious origin, to timber with an unknown origin, the market will begin to weaken and they will no longer see the results they hoped for.