Forestry scopes: South African Case Study Plantation forestry in southern Africa has changed the future of the country. It covers over 40 million ha of the country’s land surface area. An amount of R1,2 billion from the department’s budget has been allocated to forestry and natural resources management. The forestry sector employs around 165 900 […]
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Wildlife Corridors A wildlife corridor is a link of wildlife habitat, generally native vegetation, which joins two or more larger areas of similar wildlife habitat. Corridors are critical for the maintenance of ecological processes including allowing for the movement of animals and the continuation of viable populations. The main goal of implementing habitat corridors is
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Where Do We Get Our Feet Wet? How many high points, low points and passes are there on the island of Crete? I do not know…but I do know a formula which given the number of high points and the number of low points tells me the number of passes. Can you discover it? I
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Mouhefanggai This article derives the formula for the volume of a sphere, without using any mathematics more advanced than Pythagoras’ theorem. It uses some ideas developed in the article Volume of a Pyramid and a Cone, which you may want to read first. Volume of a mouhefanggai Imagine two identical cylindrical pipes meeting at right
Sonam Wangchuk (engineer) A Innovator and Education Reformist Sonam Wangchuk (born 1 September 1966) is a Ladakhi engineer, innovator and education reformist. He is the founding-director of the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL) which was founded in 1988 by a group of students who had been in his own words, the ‘victims’
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Mushrooms Hydroponics Since mushrooms do not contain chlorophyll or photosynthesize, their tolerance for low light in extremely high. Light itself seems only to play a part in fungi life as a photosensitive cue for fruiting. Mushrooms are made of chitin instead of cellulose, the building block of most herbaceous plants. Chitin forms long, thread-like filaments
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Economic Importance of Pteridophytes Pteridophytes commonly known as Vascular Cryptogams, are the seedless vascular plants that evolved after bryophytes. Besides being a lower plant, pteridophytes are economically very important. Dry fronds of many ferns are used as a cattle feed. Pteridophytes are also used as a medicine. The decoction of foliage of Lycopodium is used
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The Most Dreadful and Dangerous Insects that Can Kill Humans The world is full of dangerous things that can kill us. There are hundreds of thousands of species of different insects and other creatures that can be found on earth. And among those creatures, there are different insects that are considered quite dangerous for human
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Organic farming Organic farming is a method of farming system which primarily aimed at cultivating the land and raising crops in such a way, as to keep the soil alive and in good health by use of organic wastes (crop, animal and farm wastes, aquatic wastes) and other biological materials along with beneficial microbes (bio-fertilizers)
Importance of Non-Wood Forest Products in Joint Forest Management Joint Forest Management is the official and popular term in for partnerships in involving both the state forest departments and local communities. Villagers agree to assist in the safeguarding of forest resources through protection from fire, grazing, and illegal harvesting in exchange for which they receive
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