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Cleared forest area in Canada Sustainable forest management involves the maintenance and enhancement of forest environments, ensuring longevity of forest ecosystems while allowing the best possible environmental, economic, social and cultural opportu...

By Lawrence Hislop

Young tree plantation in Canada Sustainable forest management involves the maintenance and enhancement of forest environments, ensuring longevity of forest ecosystems while allowing the best possible environmental, economic, social and cultural opportu...

By Lawrence Hislop

Tree plantation in Canada Sustainable forest management involves the maintenance and enhancement of forest environments, ensuring longevity of forest ecosystems while allowing the best possible environmental, economic, social and cultural opportu...

By Lawrence Hislop

By Lawrence Hislop

Cleared roads in plantation, Canada Sustainable forest management involves the maintenance and enhancement of forest environments, ensuring longevity of forest ecosystems while allowing the best possible environmental, economic, social and cultural opportu...

By Lawrence Hislop

Fallen trees in a plantation, Canada Sustainable forest management involves the maintenance and enhancement of forest environments, ensuring longevity of forest ecosystems while allowing the best possible environmental, economic, social and cultural opportu...

By Lawrence Hislop

By Lawrence Hislop

Cleared forest area in Canada Clearcutting of forests is a controversial logging practice that has widespread negative implications for the environment. The most apparent consequence is the loss of large areas of habitat supporting numerous species o...

By Lawrence Hislop

View over tree plantation in Canada Sustainable forest management involves the maintenance and enhancement of forest environments, ensuring longevity of forest ecosystems while allowing the best possible environmental, economic, social and cultural opportu...

By Lawrence Hislop

Tree harvesting machinery, Canada Sustainable forest management involves the maintenance and enhancement of forest environments, ensuring longevity of forest ecosystems while allowing the best possible environmental, economic, social and cultural opportu...

By Lawrence Hislop

Mangroves in Bali Mangroves grow in saline coastal habitats and play an important ecological role. They have a specialized root system and reproductive cycle that mean that they can thrive in salt water. There are more than 30 species gro...

By Lawrence Hislop

Young mangrove plantation on coastal Bali Once their thin root system is established, mangroves provide for a wide variety of plant and animals. Algae and plankton are rife, providing the perfect habitat for shrimp, shellfish, crabs and fish, who feed off them. ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Drifting through a mangrove plantation in Bali Bali Clean & Green program is an initiative aimed at prioritizing Bali's environmental concerns, which have emerged as the tourism and industry sectors have grown in the region. This is to be achieved through the popula...

By Lawrence Hislop

Mangroves in Bali are a vital part of the coastal ecosystem An important function of mangrove forest is to hold back silt water that damages coral reefs. In extreme weather conditions, mangroves provide a physical barrier, absorbing and dissipating the energy from tsunami, flood ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Drifting through a mangrove plantation in Bali The variety of marine life which exists in and around mangroves provides many Indonesians with their livelihood, in fishing, gathering of crustaceans, to timber production. Unfortunately, mangroves here occupy coastal la...

By Lawrence Hislop

Mangroves in Bali are a vital part of the coastal ecosystem The removal of large areas of mangroves for industrial purposes can significantly alter these precious coastal ecosystems. This can have a broader effect on the community, threatening vital clean water sources, tourist i...

By Lawrence Hislop

Young mangrove plantation on coastal Bali In the 1980's a boom in shrimp farming saw a great amount of mangrove forest replaced by farms. As the coastline begun to be chipped away by violent waves, there was some concern that the bridge of land between the North...

By Lawrence Hislop

Old whale bone providing fertile conditions for vascular plants, Antarctic Peninsula Nutrients which seep out of whale bones fertilise plants, leading to an accumulation of organic matter in the soil. Whale bone is also known as Baleen and it was <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleen>used in a vari...

By Peter Prokosch

Deschampsia antarctica, one of only 2 flowering plants found in Antarctic Peninsula Less than 1% of Antarctica is available for colonisation by plants. Only two flowering plants are found on the entire continent, which occur on the western Antarctic peninsular - the Antarctic hair grass, Deschampsia Ant...

By Peter Prokosch

Variable Sunbird (Cinnyris venustus), Kenya As much as the rest of the world, Kenya is witnessing biodiversity loss. This is despite the country being ranked second in Africa in terms of bird and mammal species richness. The loss in Kenya's biodiversity is a threa...

By Peter Prokosch

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