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150 Clean Cookstoves Change Lives In Guatemala

April 22, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Land Use/Forests

Canada’s First Nations Score Two Environmental Victories

December 3, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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

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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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 [...]

Land Use/Forests

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 [...]

Land Use/Forests

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 [...]

Land Use/Forests

Groups Halt Logging on Yellowstone National Park Border

May 24, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Trump Opens Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to Logging

October 29, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Land Use/Forests

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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Land Use/Forests

Trump Again Assaults Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

September 14, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Illicit Wildlife, Gold, Timber Trade Funds DRC Conflict

April 16, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on 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, [...]

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