The Mechanism supports countries to implement FLR as a contribution to achieving the Bonn Challenge-the restoration of 150 million hectare of deforested and degraded lands by 2020-and the Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi Biodiversity Targets-related to ecosystem conservation and restoration.
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For over 15 years, EFA has led environmental education and awareness raising campaigns, restored degraded lands and conserved pristine forests, minimized the impacts of civil war on the environment and its inhabitants, and equipped thousands of people with sustainable livelihood skills such as agroforestry.
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The "'bioreclamation of degraded lands "'( BDL ) system was developed by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ( ICRISAT ), with the aim of helping reverse damage to soils caused by overgrazing and intensive farming.
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It has to be noted, however, that such energy forests do not necessarily compete with food crops for highly productive land as they can be grown on slopes, marginal, or degraded land as well-sometimes even with long-term restoration purposes in mind.
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It is valued for the construction of houses, fences, and boats, but also as firewood as it burns easily and cleanly . " Detarium senegalense " trees are frequently employed in reforestation programs in areas of degraded land as they grow well even on poor soils.
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The vast arable and degraded land mass of Ghana has the potential for the cultivation of crops and plants that could be converted into a wide range of solid and liquid bio-fuels, as the development of alternative transportation fuels could help Ghana to diversify and secure its future energy supplies.
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In February 2010, Maryland Senators Richard Madaleno and Brian Frosh, and Maryland Delegate Al Carr announced Senate resolutions recognizing the 20th anniversary of Trees for the Future and the organization's two decades of global activity restoring degraded lands and cutting carbon emissions through the planting of more than 65 million trees.
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The present shifting cultivation system with short fallow in the Chittagong Hill Tracts has accelerated erosion, land degradation, deforestation, and impoverishment of tribal people in CHT . If the present state of degradation is continued, most of the areas under shifting cultivation will be severely degraded and the future generations will face more difficulties to eke out their livelihoods on further degraded land.
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Ralph Maughan, editor of " The Wildlife News, " defended the western deserts of North America from livestock, writing, " The idea that we can almost like magic, green the desert and the degraded lands, by running even more livestock, albeit in a different fashion, sucking up greenhouse gases all the while, is a compelling and dangerous fantasy . " An article in Rangelands by Briske et al . disputes the assertions made in the TED Talk.
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:It is specifically a quarry on the darling scarp that ( a ) was a significant source of material for landmarks in Perth ( b ) has a complex interaction with other properties in the area ( stathams brickworks in glen forrest ) which requires a careful explaation as to why more than one location has been known as'stathams'on the darling range ( c ) being identified as a dolerite dyke on the darling scarp makes it a unique geological dyke in the geological framewok of the scarp ( d ) repeated bushfires at the site specifically has seen the demise of the quarrying operation, as well as significant ecological change at the site itself ( e ) as a recreational site is one of a very few quarry sites on the sacrp where climbing is not considered dangerous http : / / www . climberswa . asn . au / climbwa / crags . asp ? region = Around % 20Perth & crag = Stathams _ Quarry & sort = NAME ( f ) is part of the former ziz zag railway location and operations ( g ) is well documented as a location ( h ) is part of the walk trail system of the local authority ( i ) is part of the reserves of helena valleyt and oddly due to the regular and seriously affected firing-the quarry and its surrounds are siginficant indicators of degraded lands due to fires-similar to the hills of queenstown in tasmania ( j ) it is unique due to its visual impact on the scarp-and was part of the arguments that were happening during the darling range national park consultations in the 1980's
