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- 08:52, 21 September 2011 Green Belt (hist) [1,216 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The green belt is a policy for controlling urban growth; it is primarily used in United Kingdom town planning. The idea is for a ring of countryside where urbanisation will be re...")
- 08:25, 31 August 2011 Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (hist) [1,773 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is an area of countryside considered to have significant landscape value in England, Wales or Northern Ireland. The primary purpose ...")
- 14:41, 30 August 2011 Woodland Carbon Code (hist) [1,626 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Woodland Carbon Code has been developed by an industry stakeholder group led by the Forestry Commission. The initiative aims to provide transparency and credibility to UK woo...")
- 10:53, 15 March 2011 Wildlife corridor (hist) [1,583 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A wildlife corridor or green corridor is an area of habitat connecting wildlife populations separated by human activities (such as roads, development or logging). This allows an ...")
- 14:54, 7 March 2011 Wildlife sanctuary (hist) [1,271 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A wildlife sanctuary is a space which is set aside exclusively for the use of wild animals, who are protected when they roam or live in that area. Typically, a wildlife sanctuary...")
- 15:41, 20 January 2011 REDD (hist) [1,625 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is a mechanism to create an incentive for developing countries to protect, better manage and wisely use their ...")
- 07:26, 26 October 2010 Carbon Plus Credit (hist) [734 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Carbon Plus Credits are special types of carbon credits coming from the forests of The Carbon Farmer Inc. in Canada. All Carbon Plus Credits are based on the third party assessme...")
- 13:17, 20 October 2010 Palliative care (hist) [1,067 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of disease symptoms, rather than striving to halt, delay, or reverse progressi...")
- 13:07, 20 October 2010 Hospice (hist) [1,315 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Hospice is a program or facility that provides special care for people who are near the end of life and for their families. Hospice care can be provided at home, in a hospice or ...")
- 12:50, 20 October 2010 Drinking water (hist) [1,437 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Drinking water or potable water is water of sufficiently high quality that can be consumed or used without risk of immediate or long term harm. Most water requires some type of ...")
- 12:41, 20 October 2010 Sanitation (hist) [844 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Sanitation is the hygienic means of promoting health through prevention of human contact with the hazards of wastes. Hazards can be either physical, microbiological, biological o...")
- 08:04, 4 October 2010 WHO (hist) [1,564 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (New page: The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. WHO is responsible for providin...)
- 08:32, 20 July 2010 Collpas (hist) [623 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (New page: Collpas sites (a Quechua word meaning salty earth) are places visited by animals to eat soil material and so complement their mineral diet. This habit of eating regular doses of earth is ...)
- 08:18, 20 July 2010 High Conservation Value Forests (hist) [1,222 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (New page: High Conservation Value Forests (HCVF) are those areas that need to be appropriately managed in order to maintain or enhance the High Conservation Values. These are forests that meet cer...)
- 14:28, 16 June 2010 Sustainable forest management (hist) [647 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (New page: Sustainable forest management (SFM) is the stewardship and use of forests and forest lands in a way, and at a rate, that maintains their biodiversity, productivity, regeneration capacity, ...)
- 14:03, 16 June 2010 High Conservation Value Forest (hist) [1,146 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (New page: A High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) is a forest management designation used to describe those forests that meet criteria defined by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). High conserv...)
- 11:15, 17 May 2010 Cassava (hist) [536 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (New page: Cassava is a woody shrub that is cultivated for its edible starchy tuberous root, a major source of carbohydrates. It is also called yuca or manioc and is native to South America and West ...)
- 13:23, 26 January 2010 Hydroelectricity (hist) [1,691 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (New page: Hydroelectricity is the production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water. It is the most widely used form of renewable energy. Most h...)
- 12:17, 26 January 2010 Catchment area (hist) [566 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (New page: Catchment area is an extent of land where water from rain and melting snow or ice drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, wetland, sea or ocean. The catchment area inc...)
- 11:39, 16 December 2009 Orangutans (hist) [653 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (New page: The orangutans are one of two endangered species of great apes (the other being the gorilla). Known for their intelligence, they live in trees and are the largest living arboreal animal. T...)
- 12:33, 12 November 2009 Orangutan (hist) [653 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (New page: The orangutans are one of two endangered species of great apes (the other being the gorilla). Known for their intelligence, they live in trees and are the largest living arboreal animal. T...)
- 12:30, 12 November 2009 Biodiversity (hist) [282 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (New page: Biodiverity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire Earth. The biodiversity found on Earth today consists of many millions of distinct biological ...)
- 12:27, 12 November 2009 Rainforest (hist) [800 bytes] Emma.murphy (Talk | contribs) (New page: Rainforests are responsible for 28% of the worlds oxygen turn over, processing it through photosynthesis from CO2 and storing it as carbon through biosequestration. Rainforests are charact...)
