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OREGON: Judge Rules for Conservation Groups, Old-Growth Trees

September 2, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on OREGON: Judge Rules for Conservation Groups, Old-Growth Trees

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, [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Amazon Accord Elusive, But Leadership Summit Generates Hope

August 11, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Amazon Accord Elusive, But Leadership Summit Generates Hope

By Benjamin Seidman

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 [...]

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Amazon’s ‘Dark Earth’ Secret Promises Global Forest Renewal

May 7, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Amazon’s ‘Dark Earth’ Secret Promises Global Forest Renewal

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, [...]

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Earth’s Biodiversity Crisis Activates Governments, Police

December 7, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Earth’s Biodiversity Crisis Activates Governments, Police

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 [...]

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Penan Stop Loggers in Culturally Sensitive Conservation Area

July 25, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Penan Stop Loggers in Culturally Sensitive Conservation Area

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 [...]

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Coal Mine Expansion Authorized in India’s Tribal Forest

April 21, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Coal Mine Expansion Authorized in India’s Tribal Forest

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 [...]

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Illegal Logging Robs Mexico of Its Forests

November 26, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Illegal Logging Robs Mexico of Its Forests

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 [...]

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OREGON: Enviros, Timber, Fishing Groups Protect Private Forests

November 14, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on OREGON: Enviros, Timber, Fishing Groups Protect Private Forests

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 [...]

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WISCONSIN: Largest Unprotected Forest Sold for Conservation

October 21, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on WISCONSIN: Largest Unprotected Forest Sold for Conservation

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 [...]

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NEW JERSEY: State Replants Native Atlantic White Cedar Forests

September 26, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on NEW JERSEY: State Replants Native Atlantic White Cedar Forests

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 [...]

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Indigenous Penan Block Logging on Their Ancestral Lands

September 16, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Indigenous Penan Block Logging on Their Ancestral Lands

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 [...]

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RCMP Arrest 900+ in Conflict Over Old-Growth Forest Logging

September 14, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on RCMP Arrest 900+ in Conflict Over Old-Growth Forest Logging

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 [...]

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Biden Protects World’s Largest Coastal Temperate Rainforest

July 19, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Biden Protects World’s Largest Coastal Temperate Rainforest

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 [...]

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2,500 Scientists Take the Pulse of Earth’s Tropical Forests

July 3, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 2,500 Scientists Take the Pulse of Earth’s Tropical Forests

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 [...]

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G7 Summit Stimulates Green Legacy for Cornwall

June 13, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on G7 Summit Stimulates Green Legacy for Cornwall

FALMOUTH, Cornwall, United Kingdom, June 13, 2021 (ENS) – Now that the G7 leaders have held their 2021 summit meeting and moved on, the region of England where they met [...]

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UN Head: ‘We Still Have Time’ to Heal the Earth

June 6, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on UN Head: ‘We Still Have Time’ to Heal the Earth

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 [...]

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Innovative STAR Tool Reduces Species Extinction Risk

April 22, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Innovative STAR Tool Reduces Species Extinction Risk

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 [...]

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Invaders Attack U.S. Forests, Public Lands

April 9, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Invaders Attack U.S. Forests, Public Lands

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 [...]

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Police Target the Most Lucrative of Environmental Crimes

February 16, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Police Target the Most Lucrative of Environmental Crimes

 

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 [...]

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Caribou, Old-growth Forest Losers in BC Logging Plans

September 19, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Caribou, Old-growth Forest Losers in BC Logging Plans

 

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, September 19, 2020 (ENS) – Days after the province of British Columbia announced a new provincial approach to old-growth forests, conservation groups are sounding the [...]

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