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- Kenya: Illegal Loggers Invade Forest and Cut Down Trees Created 32 weeks 4 days ago
- Nation: More than 2,000 exotic and indigenous trees worth more than Sh1.2 million have been destroyed by illegal loggers. Bomet District forest officer William Cheptoo said the loggers had taken advantage of the post-election violence to deplete the Chepalungu government gazetted forest. He explained that the forest was left unguarded after forest guards fled. Three months ago, members of the local community said to have opposed the conservation of the forest, invaded Chelelach ...
- Australia: Industry attacks forestry research cuts at CSIRO Created 14 weeks 6 days ago
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Tasmania's forest industry condemned the decision to shut down a dedicated forest research department within the CSIRO.
- Surge in rain forest loss alarms Brazil Created 28 weeks 2 days ago
- Chicago Tribune: As deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rain forest declined over the past three years, the country's leaders crowed that they'd found the recipe for stopping the destruction of the world's most diverse ecosystem. By expanding the area of protected rain forest by more than 60 percent while allowing controlled logging, Brazil's government said it had cracked down on the illegal clearing that has consumed a fifth of the rain forest. Last month, however, satellite images revealed ...
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- HP Global Soft Limited employee Pratibha Srikanth Murthy was raped, murdered in 2005.
- Amazon corridors far too narrow, warn scientists Created 28 weeks 19 hours ago
- EurekAlert: Protected forest strips buffering rivers and streams of the Amazon rainforest should be significantly wider than the current legal requirement, according to pioneering new research by scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Published in the journal Conservation Biology on March 21, this is the first wildlife study in remnant riparian tropical forest corridors. Brazilian forestry legislation currently requires that all forest strips alongside rivers and streams on ...
- Gadchiroli: Inside the Red Line Created 1 year 2 weeks ago
- In the jungles of Gadchiroli in interior Maharashtra, it is clearly the Naxalites who call the shots. Caught between the gun-wielding ultras and the forest guards, impoverished locals say they prefer the Naxalites, whose presence has reduced harassment from the forest guards and forced the forest contractors to pay them higher wages
- African Development Bank to Fund Congo Forest Conservation Created 27 weeks 5 days ago
- Environment News Service: The African Development Bank Group is planning to invest US$814 million in biodiversity conservation and natural resources management in Central Africa's Congo Basin, the group's president announced today. Bank Group President Donald Kaberuka made the pledge at a two day conference on financing mechanisms for the sustainable management of Congo Basin forest ecosystems that opened Thursday in Tunis. He said the Group is also preparing a regional integration program on the ...
- Radioactive mines put Jharkhand villagers at risk Created 12 weeks 3 days ago
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