Forests in sentence

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They ambled through the forests and savannas using their strong arms and sharp claws to uproot plants and climb trees, grazing on grasses, leaves, and prehistoric avocados.

Our entire country generates 2.2 million tons of carbon dioxide, but our forests, they sequester more than three times that amount, so we are a net carbon sink for more than four million tons of carbon dioxide each year.

So every year, we set aside resources to prevent poaching, hunting, mining and pollution in our parks, and resources to help communities who live in those parks manage their forests, adapt to climate change, and lead better lives while continuing to live in harmony with Mother Nature.

Firstly, to avoid getting arrested, street workers take risks to avoid detection, and that means working alone or in isolated locations like dark forests where they're vulnerable to attack.

And whether in the shape of informal concrete slums or broken social housing or trampled old towns or forests of skyscrapers, the contemporary urban archetypes that have emerged all across the Middle East have been one cause of the alienation and fragmentation of our communities.

I am an entrepreneur who facilitates the making of these forests professionally.

We have helped factories, farms, schools, homes, resorts, apartment buildings, public parks and even a zoo to have one of such forests.

Since then, we have made 75 such forests in 25 cities across the world.

We survey the sacred groves, or sacred forests around old temples.

Together, we looked at a variety of biological systems, ranging from natural tropical rainforests through to managed forests and fisheries.

Massive ripple effects changed grasslands into forests, changed the composition of forest from one tree to another.

And many other tropical forests are the same, and not just tropical forests.

We're talking about regrown agricultural fields, timber plantations that are not being managed on a day-to-day basis, second-growth forests generally, the entire East Coast, where after agriculture moved west, the forest sprung up.

Yes, trees are the foundation of forests, but a forest is much more than what you see, and today I want to change the way you think about forests.

I grew up in the forests of British Columbia.

He and I had this curiosity about forests, and my first big "aha" moment was at the outhouse by our lake.

But this was in the laboratory, and I wondered, could this happen in real forests?

Trees in real forests might also share information below ground.

I knew I had found something big, something that would change the way we look at how trees interact in forests, from not just competitors but to cooperators.

So how do we do science in complex systems like forests?

Well, as forest scientists, we have to do our research in the forests, and that's really tough, as I've shown you.

Forests aren't simply collections of trees, they're complex systems with hubs and networks that overlap and connect trees and allow them to communicate, and they provide avenues for feedbacks and adaptation, and this makes the forest resilient.

So now how are you thinking about forests?

These simplified forests lack complexity, and they're really vulnerable to infections and bugs.

So I want to come back to my final question: instead of weakening our forests, how can we reinforce them and help them deal with climate change?

Well, you know, the great thing about forests as complex systems is they have enormous capacity to self-heal.

We need to reestablish local involvement in our own forests.

You see, most of our forests now are managed using a one-size-fits-all approach, but good forest stewardship requires knowledge of local conditions.

Second, we need to save our old-growth forests.

And finally, fourthly and finally, we need to regenerate our forests with a diversity of species and genotypes and structures by planting and allowing natural regeneration.

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