impact of mining on forest cover

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  Mining shrinks Odisha’s forests| India Water Portal

  2022713 · Image Source: (Manoranjan Mishra et al (2022) Mining impacts on forest cover change in a tropical forest using remote sensing and spatial information from 2001–2019: A case study of Odisha (India). Journal of Environmental Management, 302 (2022) 114067, pp 2).

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  Impact of illegal mining activities on forest ecosystem …

  2019101 · This study ascertained local communities’ perception of the importance of non-market ecosystem services, the impact of illegal mining on ecosystem services, and their likeliness to participate in restoration of degraded lands resulting from illegal mining.

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  Land use/land cover dynamics using landsat data in a gold mining …

  201911 · Illegal small-scale mining (Galamsey 3 activities) (Aubynn, 2009), forest removal for mining, illegal chain-saw operation among others, are key activities in the basin (Water Resources Commssion, 2009) which may result in changes in LULC with its associated negative impact on water resources (Lorz et al., 2016).

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  Mining the drivers of forest cover change in the upper Indus …

  2022111 · Quantifying the drivers of forest cover change is a prerequisite for ensuring sustainable development in the upper Indus Valley. This study used forest disturbance and recovery data, history fire data, topographic data, and land use data to construct a decision tree model for mining the of drivers of forest cover change.

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  Impact of Productive Activities on Forest Cover Change in …

  2022614 · Due to the focus on forest cover change as a proxy measure of carbon emissions from the forestry sector, we did not take into account ecological studies evaluating the impact of productive activities on other ecosystem services, such as forest structure and composition, invasive species, biodiversity, nutrients, or biomass in soil, microclimate ...

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  Impact of mining on forest cover of Korba …

  Mining operations, which involve minerals extraction from the earth’s crust tends to, make a notable impact on the environment, landscape and biological communities of the earth (Down and Stocks, 1997 and Bell et al., 2001). Unscientific mining of minerals poses a serious threat to the environment, resulting in reduction of forest cover, erosion

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  MONITORING THE IMPACT OF GOLD MINING ON THE …

  2022412 · This section illustrates the impact of gold mining on the forest cover for the 2014 reference year, the data source used for delineating it and the extent of unobserved areas due to permanent cloud cover.

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  Dynamic influence of mining-induced land use land cover …

  202431 · Abstract Despite the ecological importance of avifauna and the well-documented deleterious effects of mining on biodiversity, there is skimpy attention on the specific consequences of mining on the avian community. The study evaluated the dynamics of mining-induced land use/cover changes and consequent impacts on the avifauna …

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  Governance and sustainability challenges in landscapes shaped by mining ...

  2012121 · Yet the indirect impacts of mining on forests are equally significant, and include the role of infrastructure development in making access to land and forest products in remote areas more economically viable ( Geist and Lambin, 2002) and the pressure placed on forests by the population pull of mining towns.

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