Implementing Brazil’s Forest Code: a vital contribution to securing forests and conserving biodiversity

Implementing a Smart Method to Eliminate Artifacts of Vital Signals

Background: Electroencephalography (EEG) has vital and significant applications in different medical fields and is used for the primary evaluation of neurological disorders. Hence, having easy access to suitable and useful signal is very important. Artifacts are undesirable confusions which are generally originated from inevitable human activities such as heartbeat, blinking of eyes and facial ...

Ethnobotanical Importance of Orans - As a Means Of Conserving Biodiversity

Special sites or areas that have one or more attributes which distinguish them as somehow extraordinary, usually in a religious or spiritual sense, are called sacred places. They tend to evoke a feeling of some awesome, mysterious, and transcendent power that merits special reverence and treatment. Sacred groves are stands of trees or patches of forest that local communities conserve primarily ...

Conserving Southeast Asian forest biodiversity in human-modified landscapes

Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore b ETH Zürich, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Ecosystems Management Group, CHN G74.2, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland World Wide Fund for Nature-Malaysia, 49, Jalan SS23/15, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia d Environment Institute, Universi...

Natural Forest Management and Conservation of Biodiversity in Tropical Forests

As a reaction to the continued dwindling of tropical forest resources, many research and development organizations have turned to the idea of natural forest management in the hope of making tropical forest lands more profitable while maintaining biodiversity. Assertions of sustainability in logging practices have been inadequately supported, however. We begin with a review of the present knowle...

Conserving Brazil's Atlantic forests.