Health
150 Clean Cookstoves Change Lives In Guatemala
By Benjamin Seidman
SANTA CRUZ DEL QUICHE, Guatemala, April 21, 2022 (ENS) – “Before, it wasted a lot of firewood and it’s very expensive. We don’t have jobs to get [...]
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Land Use/Forests
Canada’s First Nations Score Two Environmental Victories
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, December 3, 2021 (ENS) – The British Columbia government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales, BCTS, have pulled three more cutblocks from their sales plan [...]
Land Use/Forests
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 [...]
AmeriScan
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 [...]
AmeriScan
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
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 [...]
RSS
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
Groups Halt Logging on Yellowstone National Park Border
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Montana, May 24, 2021 (ENS) – The U.S. Forest Service has responded to a formal challenge from four environmental groups by halting a plan to clearcut more than [...]
Land Use/Forests
Trump Opens Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to Logging
WASHINGTON, DC, October 28, 2020 (ENS) – President Donald Trump’s administration has finalized plans to reverse roadless protections for the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska that have been [...]
Land Use/Forests
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
Trump Again Assaults Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
JUNEAU, Alaska, September 14, 2020 (ENS) – The Trump administration has announced plans for another timber sale that would destroy more than 5,100 acres of critical old-growth habitat in [...]
At Risk
Illicit Wildlife, Gold, Timber Trade Funds DRC Conflict
NAIROBI, Kenya, April 16, 2015 – Organized crime funded by illegal trade in natural resources is fueling the 20-year-long conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, [...]