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Sherwood Forest

an ancient forest in central England; formerly a royal hunting ground; said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band

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Oh, nothing less than killing a royal deer in Sherwood Forest today.

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As a result, the new pasture land or farmland is soon abandoned, with no prospect for regeneration of the original forest and its unique ecosystems.
Forest clearing, on the other hand, is probably best stopped by economic incentives, perhaps combined with regulatory limits.
On the other hand, financial incentives would probably succeed, because cutting down forest to create pastureland is not profitable enough to induce farmers to forego payments for protecting the land.
Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.
Heat waves, droughts, floods, forest fires, retreating glaciers, polluted rivers, and extreme storms buffet the planet at a dramatically rising rate, owing to human activities.
Forest Service rangers set up a cage and put some bacon inside, soon catching and transporting the bear 30 kilometers into the wilderness.
The bear has no idea that its days are numbered unless it remains in the forest and hunts in the traditional way for its meals.
It had no chance to learn - and probably never will - that picnic tables and garbage cans are defended by forest rangers with orders to kill.
This year, we've gotten a taste of the many kinds of dangers that lie ahead: more extreme hurricanes, massive droughts, forest fires, spreading infectious diseases, and floods.
Climate problems - floods, droughts, heat waves, extreme storms, massive forest fires, and more - also ravaged many other parts of the world in 2012, including China, Australia, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa's Sahel region.
Residue from forest, agricultural, and agro-industrial activities could be collected and converted.
Long-term estimates project that over a 50-year time horizon, most of the planet's arable land would have to be used to feed the world and for forest conservation.
Translating CO2 into an illogical and inefficient measure of forest cover seems intended mainly to ensure that an alarming message results.
Indeed, every year, the world loses forest area the size of Ireland.
The 1976 plan called for sustainable logging and basic forest-fire control, but war intervened, costing Afghanistan half its forest cover.
At the current rate, Afghanistan's old growth forest could vanish within a decade.
A new initiative called the Green Corps includes 300 forest rangers charged with stopping illegal logging, and the ministry hopes to boost their numbers within a year.
Medvedev's decision to suspend construction of a highway through the Khimki forest near Moscow in the face of widespread civic protest was important.
Google has become a de facto gatekeeper of information, to the extent that if your site is not highly ranked by Google, you are like the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.
Less evidently, there are plants in the rain forest whose gene pool might be useful to us.
Before the disaster, this area was home to 22,000 people in 92 villages, and the land was farmed and exploited for its forest resources.
This is good news for mining, oil, and gas companies eyeing rich reserves under the Amazon rain forest and the Pacific shelf.

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