Deforestation

thumb|Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil's [[Maranhão state, 2016]] thumb|Deforestation in Riau province, Sumatra, Indonesia to make way for an [[oil palm plantation in 2007.]] thumb|Deforestation in the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, 2009

Mennonites are a group of Anabaptist Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation. The name Mennonites is derived from the Frisian cleric Menno Simons (1496–1561). Simons became a prominent leader within the wider Anabaptist movement and was a contemporary of Martin Luther (1483–1546) and Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560). Through his writings about the Reformation, Simons articulated and formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss Anabaptist founders as well as early teachings of the Mennonites founded on the belief in both the mission and ministry of Jesus. Fo

thumb|A forest, six years after reforestation efforts in Panama. thumb|Reforestation in progress: Direct-sowing of seed in a burned area (after a wildfire) in the [[Idaho Panhandle National Forest, United States.]] Reforestation is the practice of restoring previously existing forests and woodlands that have been destroyed or damaged. The prior forest destruction might have happened through deforestation, clearcutting or wildfires. Three important purposes of reforestation programs are for harvesting of wood, for climate change mitigation, and for ecosystem and habitat restoration purposes. On

thumb|upright=1.25|An afforestation project in Rand Wood, Lincolnshire, [[England (this patch was open ground before)]]

thumb|upright=1.3|After a century of clearcutting, this forest, near the source of the Lewis and Clark River in [[Clatsop County, Oregon, is a patchwork. In each patch, most of the trees are the same age.]] thumb|A forest before and after clearcutting Clearcutting, clearfelling or clearcut logging is a practice in forestry and logging, in which most or all of the trees in an area are uniformly cut down. Along with shelterwood and seed tree harvests, it is used by foresters to create certain types of forest ecosystems and to promote select species that require an abundance of sunlight or grow i

interactions between deforestation and climate change

office that uses digital files/documents and devices instead of paper

amount of land area covered by forest

vast defensive belt along the Cambodian-Thai border

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loss of biological wealth of a forest

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Slash-and-char is an alternative to slash-and-burn that has a lesser effect on the environment. It is the practice of charring the biomass resulting from the slashing instead of burning it. Due to incomplete combustion (pyrolysis) the resulting residue matter charcoal can be utilized as biochar to improve the soil fertility.

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Africa faces severe degradation.

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abandoned agricultural project in Indonesian Borneo

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online platform that provides data and tools for monitoring forests

removal of forest and conversion of the land to non-forest use in Peru