BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 25, 2023 (ENS) – The European Commission has proposed the EU’s first Forest Monitoring Law to plug existing gaps in information about European forests. It is expected to create a comprehensive forest knowledge base so that forest owners and managers can improve their responses to growing pressures on forests and strengthen forest resilience. […]
PENDLETON, Oregon, September 2, 2023 (ENS) – A Trump-era change in U.S. Forest Service regulations that permitted the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest violates three separate laws, […]
BELEM, Brazil, August 11, 2023, (ENS) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this week hosted a two-day regional summit of the eight Amazon River basin countries seeking a plan to save the world’s largest rainforest. At their meeting in Belem on August 8 and 9, the eight leaders had intended to reach consensus on issues from deforestation to sustainable development in the Amazon in the first such conference in 14 years. […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil, May 7, 2023 (ENS) – Millions of Amerindian people living centuries ago in today’s Amazonia transformed the originally poor soil. The result is Amazonian dark earth, ADE, or terra preta, fertile and rich in nutrients and stable organic matter derived from charcoal, which imparts its black color. […]
LYON, France, December 7, 2022 (ENS) – A wildlife and timber trading law enforcement crackdown by the international police force Interpol and the World Customs Organization has yielded more than 900 arrests and the disruption of wildlife and timber crime networks globally. Police and Customs officials have made have 2,200 seizures and identified 141 companies they suspect of engaging in illegal sales. […]
BARAM, Sarawak, Malaysia, July 25, 2022 (ENS) – Indigenous Penan communities have filed a police report and erected blockades to put a permanent stop to logging of the mountain Batu Siman in northern Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo… […]
JAIPUR, Rajasthan, India, April 21, 2022 (ENS) – State governments in India have approved two giant new coal projects on the land of the Adivasi Indigenous people, defying a determined and outspoken Adivasi resistance movement. The unique Hasdeo Forest in the state of Chhattisgarh, home to 20,000 Adivasi people, wild elephants, endangered species and medicinal plants, is at risk for a big increase in coal mining. […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico, November 26, 2021 (ENS) – Forests in about 15 percent of Mexico’s territory are disappearing due to illegal logging carried out by criminal groups, according to Mexico’s Federal Agency of Environmental Protection Profepa. […]
SALEM, Oregon, November 14, 2021 (ENS) – “This is truly an exciting time to be a part of the Oregon forest sector,” said David Bechtold, representative of a coalition of […]
RHINELANDER, Wisconsin, October 21, 2021 (ENS) – The Conservation Fund has purchased 70,000 acres of forested land in central Wisconsin from The Forestland Group to safeguard wildlife habitat and water […]
TRENTON, New Jersey, September 26, 2021 (ENS) – New Jersey’s native Atlantic white cedar forests have been harmed by climate change, suffering sea-level rise and storm surge that sent saltwater […]
LONG AJENG, Sarawak, Malaysia, September 16, 2021 (ENS) – In Malaysian Borneo, a dozen indigenous Penan communities of Sarawak’s Upper Baram region have acted in concert to stop the bulldozers of Samling, a Malaysian logging giant that is encroaching into some of the last primeval forest on the world’s third-largest island. […]
PORT RENFREW, British Columbia, Canada, September 14, 2021 (ENS) – The battle over protest blockades raised on southwestern Vancouver Island to prevent logging of some of Canada’s largest old-growth trees is headed back to the British Columbia Supreme Court this week. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 19, 2021 (ENS) – Across the entire 16.7 million acres of the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska, full Roadless Rule protections are being restored and there will be an end to large-scale old-growth timber sales… […]
LEEDS, UK, July 3, 2021 (ENS) – A global network of researchers is cooperatively investigating tropical forests wherever they grow on the planet to explore the effects of climate change on the forests and the diverse creatures they shelter. […]
FALMOUTH, Cornwall, United Kingdom, June 13, 2021 (ENS) – Now that the G7 leaders have held their 2021 summit meeting and moved on, Cornwall, the region of England where they met, will benefit from new investment in its natural landscape […]
NEW YORK, New York, June 6, 2021 (ENS) – “We are ravaging the very ecosystems that underpin our societies,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned in his message for World Environment Day, observed every year on June 5. […]
GLAND, Switzerland, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – The new Species Threat Abatement and Restoration, STAR, metric developed by conservationists for the first time allows business, governments and civil society to assess their potential contributions to reducing global species loss […]
MADISON, Wisconsin, April 8, 2021 (ENS) – “Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever increasing world trade,” U.S. Forest Service scientists conclude […]
LYON, France, February 16, 2021 (ENS) – A decade of forestry crime operations, fighting the looting of natural resources such as timber and charcoal in some of the world’s poorest countries, has given the international police force, Interpol, some powerful tools to carry on the fight against its powerful adversaries. […]
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