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Logging slows in Africa's rainforest
2013-07-22 02:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Tree loss in one of the world's largest rainforests has slowed, a study suggests. Satellite images of Africa's Congo Basin reveal that deforestation has fallen by about a third since 2000. Researchers believe this is partly because of a focus on mining and oil rather than commercial agriculture, where swathes of forest are cleared. The work is published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. It is part of a series that is examining the state of Africa's forests. Dr...
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Has the EU fallen for Congo rainforest logging scam?
2013-07-22 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: BBC Television's Panorama programme has spent six months tracking illegal logs from the Congo rainforest to western Europe. The investigation has revealed that new EU timber regulations are failing to stop illegal wood getting into European stores. I have been on a stakeout for two days, but finally the moment I have been waiting for is about to arrive. I have been monitoring a ship carrying wood to Europe from Congo-Brazzaville. It is the dead of the night and I am at the port of La Rochelle...
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Conservationists fear Victoria's cuts to logging green tape
2013-06-27 09:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Victorian government has amended the state's logging laws in a move conservationists fear will transfer control to the timber industry and could doom endangered species such as the Leadbeater's Possum. The Sustainable Forests (Timber) Amendment Bill, which passed the lower house on Thursday, reduces the regulations binding VicForests, the state-backed forestry business. The bill removes the second part of the two-stage process that VicForests has to go through in order to secure and log...
Indonesian logging giant pulls out of FSC certification scheme
2013-06-23 01:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Following a complaint filed by environmental groups, Indonesian forestry giant Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) has pulled out of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an eco-labeling initiative for timber and other forest products. "On 14 June 2013, the FSC International received from our Asia-Pacific and China offices written requests by APRIL subsidiaries to withdraw their FSC certificates," said the FSC in a statement. "No reason for the withdrawal was offered." APRIL...
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Logging endangers UNESCO World Heritage Site in Solomon Islands
2013-06-23 01:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A world heritage site in the Solomon Islands is "in danger" due to logging, warns the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The East Rennell area of the Solomon Islands was inscribed on the list of world heritage sites in 1998 for its forests and coral reefs. East Rennell is the world's largest coral atoll. According to UNESCO, logging in the area is threatening East Rennell's marine ecosystems. "The World Heritage Committee determined that logging is threatening...
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